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LTCY 518 Literacy Education and Technology - Dr. Pam Petty - pam@pampetty.com

Welcome!  We have a two-fold challenge for this course:

  1. To learn the hands-on, how-to of using the many technologies available to us that facilitate teaching and learning, and
     
  2. To demonstrate that we can take those mastered technology skills and apply them to instructional designs for teaching reading, writing, and related language arts skills/strategies. 

     This course is designed to allow you to have some choice in both domains.  You will be allowed to select which types of hardware (digital cameras, camcorders, scanners, etc.) you want to learn, as well as, the types of software applications (imaging software, composing software - this list is endless) you want to learn.  The types of technology (hardware and software) you have available to you (personally or at your school) and the dynamics of your classroom, along with YOUR OWN self-identified strengths/weaknesses and TECHNOLOGY GOALS will be considerations in your decision making for what you do in this course. 

     Are you new to on-line learning?  Just as providing instruction in an on-line venue requires adjustments in strategies and methodologies, so does TAKING an on-line course.  Your time, energies and study methods need to align with the demands of on-line learning.  Take this quick diagnostic and informative quiz to determine how well your personal "learning profile" aligns with the expectations of on-line learning.  Click on the rather "graphic" graphic below to begin the quiz.  To return to this page, simply click "BACK" in your browser window:

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Link to Distance Learning Survey

    Welcome back!  Glad to see you are UP for the demands of on-line/distance learning!  Please share your RESULTS (the numerical score you calculated from the quiz) with Dr. Petty.  To do so, please fill in the following form and CLICK SUBMIT:

Please enter your NAME: 

My score from the distance learning survey is: 

I feel my strengths for on-line learning are:

I feel that my biggest challenges in on-line learning may be:

   NOTE:  You MAY get an error message saying there was a FrontPage error.  Not true.  I AM receiving your submission.  I think FrontPage may be unhappy with the way I named this form.  Fret not - your submission DID WORK - once you click the BACK button on your browser, please continue with the information on this page.  Thank you. 

     You could think of the requirements of this course as a "smorgasbord" of techno-opportunities from which you can custom design your own learning.  First, let's help you determine where you are RIGHT NOW with your technology skills.  Click on the mouse image below to take a TECHNOLOGY SURVEY which will help us determine where you are and where you would like to be in terms of confidently using technology as a teaching and learning tool:


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Link to Technology Survey

   Back so soon?  You are now ready to begin.  The COURSE CALENDAR will give you a roadmap for how to navigate through the course and will, hopefully, help you make best use of your time and energies.  We will be spending some "quality" time together as a class so let's get to know each other a bit.  Each student should create a homepage in Blackboard.  (http://bbt.wku.edu ).  After logging in to Blackboard, click on our course name (LTCY 518) and click on STUDENT TOOLS.  The fill-in-the-blank form for making your homepage is listed there.  To view your homepage, click on Communication, then on Student Roster. This will be a very important venue for us to get to know each other and will count as part of our class participation score.

Starting on this webpage, I will use arrows to help you move from one point in the course to another. 

Ready to get going?  Click the red arrow you see to the RIGHT!                                    

01/02/2006 10:24:25 AM