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External
Documents
Why are external documents necessary?
Instructional materials that we use everyday in our classrooms have been developed to appeal to wide audiences. Computer-based instructional materials are no different. They have been developed with a specific target audience in mind that will likely not fit all of your needs. Therefore, external documents are necessary. These range from: extra readings, visual aids, individualized exercises,
links to other technologies, or a host of other activities. Essentially,
external documents are additional materials that you find and/or create
to accompany instructional materials. Here is an example from a previous website.
A good
external document can:
- add
interaction
- add more information
- get
students to apply information
- get
students to use the information
- make
the information more relevant to students
- expose
students to information in a different form
- let
students express themselves differently
- give
students more control
Instructions:
The
goal of this assignment is to help you find ways to work with a website
or a piece of software to make it better suit your needs. You will create external documents to go along with it. The documents will consist of additional
instructions (or a lesson plan) and websites to go along with. The process will be as follows:
- Use a website/software that you have reviewed (must have a evaluation form posted in the discussion forum).
- Write a short lesson plan
(20-30mins) around the website/software, including instructions on how to use the website/software and any external documents that serve the lesson.
- Include a paragraph or two detailing information about your target users. What is the class? Where is the class? Who are the students? Where does this lesson belong in the larger unit? and so forth. This information establishes a context allowing readers to see where this lesson is situated in the bigger picture.
- Identify other websites that you could use to in conjunction with #1
in the lesson. Include a short description of each (it would be ok to cut and paste from a review in the "Resources" discussion forum - make sure to cite the reviewer).
- Design/create your document using Microsoft Word by keeping in mind the characteristics
of good external documents mentioned above.
- Post the external document(s) in the Oncourse discussion topic for this assignment.
- One of your classmates will be assigned to lookover the external document
and to give you feedback (using the reviewing feature in Microsoft Word).
- Revise the changes you made to your external document(s) based upon the feedback from a classmate and then re-post all documents as a reply to your original posting.
Evaluation
This
assignment is worth 20 points, divided among these criteria:
(4
points for each criteria, 0 = does not meet at all, 1= needs modification,
2=somewhat meets but can be better, 3=meets the criteria, 4= more than
fully meets this criteria), based on:
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Completeness
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Quality
and originality of content
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Extent
to which activities help accomplish goals/objectives of the lesson plan
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Effective
integration/appropriateness of websites
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Professionalism
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