Web Pedagogies Week 3

Course Project and

On- Line Research

Agenda Week 3

• Last Week’s recap from far and near!• Poll and chat about final project topics (off camera)• Project Guidelines and timetable • On-line research• BREAK • Groups get together • Big group comes back share project ideas• Break • CCDT search

Last Week’s recap form far and near!

• Feedback from Students

• Learning Communities

Principles for the Design of Effective Learning Communities

• Community-Growth Principle

• Emergent-Goals Principle

• Articulation-of-Goals Principle

• Metacognitive Principle

• Beyond-the-Bounds Principle

• Respect-for-Others Principle

Take a Poll

Project Guidelines and timetable

• Go over document

• Rubrics

Lecture or Assignment Design Document

Lecture 1 Lab 1

Lecture 2

Lab 2 Community Assignment

Lecture 3 Lab 3 Research Memo

1. Introduction

2. Key topics and content

3. Audience

4. Contextual and systemic factors

5. Ways of thinking

6. Activity sequence

a. Student performances

b. Understanding goals

c. Web tools understanding

d. Opportunity to externalize thinking

7. Feedback and Assessment

8. Conclusion

Relationship b/w Website and Design Document

Example by analogy to architecture

What is a ?

Would you build a new one today like these?

Building: Theoretical Underpinnings

• Confronting forces of modernization

• Commercialization of libraries

• Unprecedented growth of technology

• Changing social demands

• “Overstimulated world…drenched in imagery”

• Contextual setting of library

• Seattle as global city: library must deliver 1st architectural expression

• Situated in specific placeRem Koolhaas’ Seattle Public Library (2003)

Building: Tools Used

• Affordances of materials used

• Experiences of views and daylight

• Placement of different departments

Rem Koolhaas’ Seattle Public Library

Website and the Design Document

• Obviously, you can use the library -- check out a book, buy a mug or take a class -- w/o knowing the theoretical or construction issues behind it. Same with the users of your website.

• But, Koolhaas couldn’t have designed it with out thinking through those issues and making particular choices about how to address them. The same is true for you as the architect of your website. The design document asks you to ‘document’ those issues and choices.

Rem Koolhaas’ Seattle Public Library

On-line Research

Design Document and Research

• Design document is a narrative presentation of the theoretical underpinnings and tools used in your website. Research is for investigating and refining the issues and helping make appropriate choices.

• Focus on research for– Understanding issues related to audience (last week)– Big picture issues related to topic and site content– Pedagogical approach (TfU lectures and labs)– Feedback and assessment (Assessment lectures and labs)

Researching your topic• Goals of research

– Get ideas for your topic: what are the issues you need to think through?

– Don’t reinvent the wheel– Understand where your topic fits in the field– Learn the different perspectives or controversies in the

field– Become sufficiently expert in the topic that you can make

appropriate choices about what to present to the audience of your website

– Be a resource for your audience by knowing where to send them for more information

Internet Research: Affordances

• http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/apr2002/article3.htm

Contrast with:

http://www.medialabasia.org/

Internet Research: Quality Control

• http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm

• CARS checklist– Credibility– Accuracy– Reasonableness– Support

Internet Research: Free vs. Fee

• Fee– Hollis, Lexus/Nexus– Grossman library

(http://www.dce.harvard.edu/extension/2003-04/resources/libraries.jsp)

• Free– CARS checklist especially important– Good portals are important– Use very targeted searches once you know a

citation

Internet Research: Citations

• Harvard’s policy– http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~expos/sources/

• Citing internet sources– http://www.mla.org/publications/style/style_faq/

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BREAK

Groups get together

• Groups meet Include distance student

• All learn to give on-line feedback to each other

• Prepare for recap on project ideas

Big group comes back share project ideas

• Report from groups and conversation

CCDT search

• Learn how to find materials on the CCDT environment itself.

Next Week’s Pre-view

• Readings on Affordances

• Lab