------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fermilab LInC Online LInC Partnership Program Plan for 2001/2002 Team: South Carolina State University Plan LInC Online Course Test chat date: January 10, 2002 Chat meeting day before class starts to meet facilitators and classmates and to make sure chat software is working Start date: January 17, 2002 First day of class - Almost all past teams have chosen to offer their first course in the winter. This allows time in the fall for enrolling participants and making sure all tools and materials are ready. Please coordinate with your facilitator for all dates and times in your 2001/2002 plan. We would like to have you continue with guidance from your current facilitator. To make this possible, you will need to pick mutually convenient times. End date: April 25, 2002 Last day of class - Typically the class lasts 14 weeks, not counting the test chat or vacations. Chat meeting day: Thursdays Day(s) of week you will hold your chats - Typically at least 2 hours weekly is needed. Chat start/end 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. EST Time of day your chats will time: be held, include time zone - Typically at least 2 hours weekly is needed. Weekly staff 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. EST; Day of week and time meeting day/time: Mondays (including timezone) you will get together for weekly staff meetings - Typically at least one hour is needed. Audience: Teachers (Grades K-12) Describe the primary in SC audience for your course. Number of 18 12-20 is the suggested participants: number for a first course. Please do not exceed 24. Typically each facilitator works with 4-6 participants (1-3 project-teams). Course modification Restricted to 3-person Describe the modifications (optional): teams. (if any) you are planning Project must have main for the course. You may focus on math or need to make modifications science with if you have a different integration of other audience such as areas. pre-service teachers. If you do not need to make modifications for a different audience, you may wish to avoid making a lot of changes until after you have offered the course one or two times and feel more comfortable with the process and tradeoffs. Facilitator Academy Start date: June 4, 2002 First day of facilitator academy - This is typically offered over the summer. Number of Three Length of your academy - days: Typically this is 3 days for participants who will be offering a shorter staff development than a full LInC course. Your participants are not expected to offer a full LInC course or an online course. Academy Face-to-face in Online or face-to-face format: Orangeburg, SC Course Enrollment Coordinator: Dr. Linda L. Payne, Who will be taking the lead Director for organizing this aspect? BCO Math/Science Hub Please include contact PO Box 7277, SC State information (e-mail, phone, University and address). Orangeburg, SC 29117 lpayne@scsu.edu 803-536-7113 Announcement August 2, 2001 When will your team start date: announcing the course to others? Typically this needs to be started 4 months before your course starts. Steps: 1) US mail and e-mail to What steps will you take to 13 regional science and let prospective participants math centers in the state know about your course? Who and to 13 regional will you e-mail, meet with, technology centers in the call, or U.S. mail? In what state; 2) announcements publications and listservs on science council's, math can you post information council's, media about your course? When is specialists' listservs; the deadline for inclusion 3) publish in newsletters in these publications? What of the SC SSI, the SC events can you attend to let Science Council, and the potentially interested SC Council of Math parties know about the Teachers; 4) attend the course? SC Science Conference, the SC Math Conference, EdTech (state educational technology conference), and the BCO Regional Technology Conference on August 2, 2001 Incentives: Graduate credit at no What incentives can you charge; $300 stipend for provide to your course summer facilitator academy participants? Credit: The University allows the How will you arrange to have Hub to offer courses under credit granted for your its Adult and Continuing course? What is the process Education Division for for getting a new course graduate hours to be used approved? What deadlines are for recertification involved? purposes for teachers - not for degree programs. An established protocol exists for courses such as this under the Education 699 course number. Approval forms due by December 15, 2001. Screening: Have them complete the How will you make sure your LInC survey as we did. applicants have the Establish and adhere to qualifications needed to be the required successful in your course? qualifications. Leadership: Administrator approval How will you make sure your will be required of those applicants have the participating in the administrative support and Facilitators' Academy. capabilities needed to The administrator will provide leadership and offer agree to provide time staff development in their required for staff schools/district after the development. course? Technical Issues and Support Technical Mr. Joe Bartolini, Network Who will set up the Support: Admin. communication tools for Center for Network Resources your course and provide and Training, Dept. of support on technical Physical Sciences issues? Please include South Carolina State contact information University (e-mail, phone, and 300 College Street NE address). Orangeburg, SC 29117 jbart@physics.scsu.edu 803-536-4899 Clerical Ms. Yolanda Carr Who will provide clerical Support: Administrative Assistant support such as copying BCO Math/Science Hub course handouts, sending PO Box 7277, SC State out mailings, taking University course registrations, Orangeburg, SC 29117 updating assignments ygcarr@scsu.edu status sheet, ... Please 803-536-7078 include contact information (e-mail, phone, and address). Web/FTP http://cnrt2k.scsu.edu Give the URL of the web Server: server you will use to provide your class-specific materials such as home page, assignment sheet, and chat schedule. This web space (50-100M) with FTP access needs to be available to you by the time you arrive at the facilitator academy at Fermilab. Then you can upload your work from the academy right into your class web site. The LInC core materials will be available on the LInC web site. These should not be copied. Electronic http://www.blackboard.com What bulletin board Bulletin software will you use for Board: your course? If your agency already provides bulletin board software, you can use that if it is accessible to your intended audience. Most past LInC teams have chosen to use the free www.blackboard.com bulletin board software for their course. Whatever software you choose, it will need to be available to you by the time you arrive at the facilitator academy at Fermilab. Then you can populate it with postings for your course while you are at the academy. If you chose blackboard.com, we can help you get a class board at the academy. (Note: We are not associated with blackboard.com and do not receive any funds from them.) Chat tool: IRC server which supports What chat communication MSChat and ChatNet server software will you use? Most past teams have used IRC server software that works with MSChat and ChatNet. Your chat server software is not required for the academy, though it would be a good opportunity to test it. Your chat server software should be up and running at least 30 days before your course starts. Other Issues What issues or obstacles do you anticipate? How will you address them? None that we have identified at this time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Created for the Fermilab LInC program sponsored by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Education Office and Friends of Fermilab, and funded by United States Department of Energy, Illinois State Board of Education, North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium which is operated by North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL), and the National Science Foundation. Authors: Starr Bright, Wanda McMichael, Theresa Owens, Linda Payne, Lu Anne Smith and Emmie Thirlwell School: South Carolina State University Created: February 15, 2001 - Updated: April 4, 2001 URL: http://www-ed.fnal.gov/lincon/w01/projects/weather/scsu_staffdev.html