WEEK 2- Meets Online, Asynchronously |
W 1/19
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Reading:
- Palloff & Pratt- Chapter 1: "When Teaching and Learning Leave the Classroom"
Discussion:
- See instructions for Day 1 Activities which include completion of the following:
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WEEK 3- Meets Face-to-Face (F2F) on Monday and Online, Asynchronously on Wednesday |
| M 1/24 |
Reading:
- Palloff & Pratt- Chapter 2: "Recontextualizing Community"
- Palloff & Pratt- Chapter 3: "The Human Side of Online Learning"
Activity:
- Syllabus and course assignments overview
- Discuss readings
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| W 1/26 |
Reading:
- Palloff & Pratt- Chapter 4: "Practical Considerations in Online Learning"
- Palloff & Pratt- Chapter 5: "Managing the Relationship to Technology"
Activity:
- Read directions for short reflective paper on online vs. F2F experiences
- Post a question about the readings to the Blackboard discussion thread "Palloff & Pratt chapters 4 & 5"
- Respond to the questions of at least two of your classmates and engage in discussion of comments made by others
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WEEK 4- Meets Online, Asynchronously on Wednesday |
| M 1/31 |
Class cancelled |
| W 2/2 |
Reading:
- Palloff & Pratt- Chapter 6: "Moving Teaching and Learning Online
- Palloff & Pratt- Chapter 7: "Building Foundations"
Activity:
- Take Distance Learning and Technical Skills Self-Evaluations
- Post a question about the readings to the Blackboard discussion thread "Palloff & Pratt chapters 6 & 7"
- Respond to the questions of at least two of your classmates and engage in discussion of comments made by others
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WEEK 5- Meets F2F |
| M 2/7 |
Reading:
- Palloff & Pratt- Chapter 8: "Promoting Collaborative Learning"
- Palloff & Pratt- Chapter 9: "Transformative Learning"
Activity:
- Post a question about the readings to the Blackboard discussion thread "Palloff & Pratt chapters 8 & 9"
- Respond to the questions of at least two of your classmates and engage in discussion of comments made by others
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| W 2/9 |
Reading:
- Palloff & Pratt- Chapter 10: "Student Assessment and Course Evaluation"
- Palloff & Pratt- Chapter 11: "Lessons Learned and a Look Ahead"
Activity:
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WEEK 6- Meets Online, Asynchronously |
| M 2/14 |
Post:
Activity:
- Read and respond to at least two classmates' papers via Blackboard
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| W 2/16 |
Activity:
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WEEK 7- Meets Online, Asynchronously |
| M 2/21 |
Reading:
- Hewett & Ehmann- Chapter 2: "Theoretical Perspectives in Online Writing Instruction (OWI)" (PDF)
- Hewett & Ehmann- Chapter 3: "Online Writing Instruction in Asynchronous Environments" (PDF)
- Warnock- Chapter 11: "Response: Give Lots of Feedback without Burning Out"
Activities:
- Complete asynchronous response to student draft using guidelines from Hewett and Ehmann (summarized on page 88) and post to Blackboard.
- Proposal Assignment Directions
- Sample 1- Proposal to prevent the infestation of aquatic zebra/quagga mussels into Lake Powell
- Sample 2- Proposal to Introduce Balanced Shift Schedules and Improve Employee Communication
- Sample 3- Proposal to Increase Employee Retention and Decrease the Number of Agency Nurses Hired
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| W 2/23 |
Activities:
- Facilitators #1 will post questions for discussing chapters 2 & 3 from Hewett & Ehmann and chapter 11 from Warnock in relation to completed review of student draft
- Groups will participate in discussion, responding to prompts from facilitators
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WEEK 8- Meets F2F |
| M 2/28 |
Reading:
- Warnock- "Introduction"
- Warnock- Chapter 1: "Getting Started: Developing Your Online Personality"
- Warnock- Chapter 2: "Online or Hybrid"
Activities:
- Discuss readings
- Create Skype account (if you don't already have one) and email user name to class
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| W 3/2 |
Reading:
Activities:
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WEEK 9- Meets Online, Synchronously on Monday and Wednesday |
| M 3/7 |
Reading:
- Warnock- Chapter 3: "Tech Tools and Strategies: Use Only What You Need"
- Warnock- Chapter 4: "Course Lessons and Content"
- Warnock- Chapter 5: "The Writing Course Syllabus: What's Different in Online Instruction?"
- Palloff & Pratt- "Appendix A: Samples of Course Syllabi"
Activity:
- Facilitators #2 will post questions for discussing readings and will help moderate conversation in Skype text chat
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| W 3/9 |
Reading:
- Warnock- Chapter 6: "Organization: Redundancy and Helping Students- and You Keep Things Straight"
- Warnock- Chapter 7: "Readings: Lots of Online Options, but the Book is Not Dead!"
- Warnock- Chapter 8: "Conversation: Online, Course 'Talk' Can Become Writing"
Activity:
- Facilitator(s) #3 will post questions for discussing readings and will help moderate conversation in Skype text chat
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WEEK 10- Meets F2F on Monday and Online, Asynchronously on Wednesday
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| M 3/14 |
Reading:
- Warnock- Chapter 9: "Assignments: Online, Student Texts Drive Them"
- Warnock- Chapter 10: "Peer Review: Help Students Help Each Other"
- Warnock- Chapter 12: "Grading: Should It Change When You Teach Online?"
Activities:
- Discuss synchronous discussion experience
- Discuss guidelines for responding to classmates' draft teaching philosophies during next class session
- Online Teaching Lesson Plan and Activity assignment directions
- Discuss readings
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| W 3/16 |
Post:
Activity:
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SPRING BREAK
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M 3/21-
F 3/25 |
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WEEK 11- Meets F2F |
| M 3/28 |
Reading:
- Warnock- Chapter 13: "Pacing and Predictability: Help Students Get Comfortable in the OW Course"
- Warnock- Chapter 14: "Collaboration: Working in Virtual Groups"
- Warnock- Chapter 15: Intellectual Property: Plagiarism, Copyright, and Trust"
Activities:
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| W 3/30 |
Reading:
- Warnock- Chapter 16: "Virtual Teaching Circles: Leveraging Teacher Time and Effort"
- Warnock- Chapter 17: "Course Assessment: Taking Steps toward Knowing How Well We Are Doing"
- Warnock- Chapter 18: "Resources: A World of Help Out There"
- Warnock- Afterword: Teaching Writing with Technology: A Personality-Driven Endeavor"
Post:
- One paragraph explanation of Final Project option selection and planned topic
Activities:
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WEEK 12- Changing Pedagogies and Students in Online Environments (Meets F2F) |
| M 4/4 |
Reading:
- Cargile Cook & Grant-Davies- Chapter 1, Davis: "Applying Technical Communication Theory to the Design of Online Education"
- Cargile Cook & Grant-Davies- Chapter 3, Cargile Cook: "An Argument for Pedagogy-Driven Online Education"
Activities:
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| W 4/6 |
Class cancelled for conference |
WEEK 13- Collaboration in Online Environments (Monday's Class meets F2F, Wednesday's Class Meets Online, Asynchronously |
| M 4/11 |
Reading:
- Cargile Cook & Grant-Davies- Chapter 8, Kastman Breuch: "Enhancing Online Collaboration: Virtual Peer Review in the Writing Classroom"
- Vallance, Towndrow, & Wiz- "Conditions for Successful Online Document Collaboration"
- Shattuck, Dubins, Zulberman- "Maryland Online's Inter-Instutitional Project to Train Higher Education Adjunct Faculty to Teach Online"
Activity:
Post:
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| W 4/13 |
Post:
Activity:
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WEEK 14- Scaffolding and Assessment in Online Environments (Meets F2F) |
| M 4/18 |
Reading:
- Cargile Cook & Grant-Davies- Chapter 6, Grady & Davis: "Teaching Well Online with Procedural Scaffolding"
- 2nd reading TBA- selected by facilitators
Activity:
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| W 4/20 |
Reading:
- Cargile Cook & Grant-Davies- Chapter 12, Walker: "Activity Theory and the Online Technical Communication Course: Assessing Quality in Undergraduate Online Instruction"
- Cargile Cook & Grant-Davies- Chapter 14, Cargile Cook & Grant-Davie: "Online Course and Instructor Evaluations"
Activity:
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WEEK 15- Changing Roles for Instructors and Institutions (Meets F2F) |
| M 4/25 |
Activity:
- Questions about final projects
- Questions/comments on final tech-rich teaching philosophies
- Re-cap key issues from semester
- Re-cap technologies/activities explored in facilitations:
- Jing (Rachel & Rebecca)
- SoftChalk (E.J. & Mellissa)
- Skype (Christine & Lauren)
- GoogleDocs (Matt & Cheryl)
- VoiceThread (Kelsie & Gerri)
- Department course evaluations
- Survey Monkey evaluation
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| W 4/27 |
Reading:
- Cargile Cook & Grant-Davies- Chapter 5, Coppola: "Changing Roles for Online Teachers of Technical Communication"
- Cargile Cook & Grant-Davies- Chapter 18, Wahlstrom & Clemens: "Extreme Pedagogies: When Technical Communication Vaults Institutional Barriers"
Activity:
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EXAM WEEK |
M 5/2-
F 5/6 |
All final work due by Wednesday 5/4
- drop off final projects to my office (CBW) at 2:30 or post to Blackboard discussion thread
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