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| The Ohio Board of Regents has determined that
every hour of graduate course credit should represent approximately
three hours of student work. Since this is a web-based course and
you will not be attending class, please budget approximately 180 hours
for course projects. You may find the estimated project times listed
below to be helpful guides for time management. If you do not feel
able to devote the amount of time required, please consider postponing
this class until you can devote more attention to it. Please review
the policy on incompletes and late work on the Home
page. All work for this course must be completed and posted to your
personal website on the portfolio server. Information about accessing
this server will be described in class and is available on the resources
page. Please note that considerable time will be required outside
of class to complete the authoring assignments. Please plan your time
accordingly. |
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| DreamWeaver Training From the Source Chapter
Mini-Projects (40%) |
| Each student will complete tutorial lessons in
the course texts as indicated on the Schedule.
There are approximately 3 tutorials per week, each ranging from one
to two hours to complete. The final project from each tutorial should
be posted in a folder named "AuthSys" in your portfolio space. Note that many of the assignments
will require small modifications or departures from the text directions.
Be sure to modify your exercise sufficiently to distinguish your work from the textbook exercises. Follow the textbook directions on file names. Total work time:
Approximately 60 hours. |
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| Authoring Tool Reviews (10%) |
| Each student will review two additional authoring
tools and compare and contrast them with Dreamweaver MX.
Microsoft Frontpage or Adobe GoLive must be one
of the two selections. The second can be any tool of your choosing.
You will develop a one- or two-page website to familiarize yourself
with the tool. You will post your web work to the portfolio space
in separate folders named Review1 and Review2 within your AuthSys folder . The actual reviews will consist of a one-
or two-page summary of the features you used and your impressions
of them, as well as a comparison to how those features are implemented
in Dreamweaver MX. Naturally, you will want to dabble enough to speak
intelligently about the tool you are reviewing. Frontpage is available
for sale in WTH221 for $10. Demo versions of Frontpage
and GoLive can be downloaded from the publisher's sites.
Total work time: Approximately 20 hours. |
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| Concept Mastery Exercises (10%) |
| Each student will complete 10 online Concept
Mastery Exercises designed to demonstrate mastery of
course concepts. Many of these concepts will be explained in the texts.
Others should be researched on the Web. The exercises will consist
of short answer definitions completed via online forms. Please note that copying and pasting search results is NOT appropriate. Total work
time: Approximately 20 hours. |
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| School or Organization Website (20%) |
| Each student will develop a website for a fictitious
school system, business, agency, or non-profit organization. The website
must contain at least three tiers and should have a sufficient number
of pages at each tier to convey its design or "look and feel."
The website will be evaluated on its visual design, navigation, organization,
and appropriateness for the organization. Actual content including
images and text can be placeholders or "greeked" characters.
However, you may wish to create the content to avoid distracting the
viewer with non-sequitors. Place the site in
a separate folder named Website1 in your AuthSys folder.
Total work time: Approximately 40 hours. |
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| Instructional Website (20%) |
| Each student will develop an website designed
to teach specific instructional objectives from the State of Ohio
Learning Outcomes (http://www.ode.state.oh.us/proficiency) or from
another bona fide curriculum, public or private. The website must
objectives, learning activities, and assessment strategies that employ
branching and data tracking. The website will be evaluated on its
visual design, navigation, organization, and appropriateness for the
organization, as well as its instructional value and efficacy. Place
the site in a separate folder named Website2 in your AuthSys
folder. Total work time: Approximately 40 hours. |
