Anne Canale Stalnecker
ETAP 526 Educational Computing
WebQuest Lesson Plan
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Type of Lesson: WebQuest
Lesson Plan Title: Instructional Design for Distance Learning: A WebQuest for Online Instructors
Discipline and Topic: Instructional Design, Instructional Technology, Educational Theory
Target Population: Post-secondary instructors using Internet-based learning management systems to create online courses.
Curriculum Links: Instructors meet weekly for one month to complete their WebQuest. This is part of a series of professional development workshops held throughout the academic year on focused on distance learning.
Objectives:
Participants will:
- learn how to use Angel LMS to develop the first two modules in an online course;
- create effective course information materials using appropriate technology, tools and tutorials;
- create an interactive learner-centered activity to engage students in an icebreaker module.
Media Literacy Objectives:
- Identify capabilities and limitations of contemporary and emerging technology resources and assess the potential of these systems and services to address personal, lifelong learning, and workplace needs. (2)
- Make informed choices among technology systems, resources, and services. (1, 2)
- Use technology tools and resources for managing and communicating personal/professional information (e.g., finances, schedules, addresses, purchases, correspondence). (3, 4)
- Evaluate technology-based options, including distance and distributed education, for lifelong learning. (5)
- Routinely and efficiently use online information resources to meet needs for collaboration, research, publication, communication, and productivity. (4, 5, 6)
- Select and apply technology tools for research, information analysis, problem solving, and decision making in content learning. (4, 5)
- Collaborate with peers, experts, and others to contribute to a content-related knowledge base by using technology to compile, synthesize, produce, and disseminate information, models, and other creative works. (4, 5, 6)
Materials and Timing:
Instructors meet weekly for one month, from 9 am - 12 pm, for a total of 12 hours, to complete their WebQuest.
- Computer with Internet connection
- Software: MS Word, Adobe Reader, Angel Learning Management System
Scope and Sequence:
Week 1: Introduction: Instructional Design for Distance Learning: A WebQuest for Online Instructors (3 hours)
- Overview of Angel Learning Management System.
- Access the Instructor QuickStart guide.
- Access your Angel "shell" (the course template) with the username and password.
Using the tutorial in #1 above, create an Angel Folder in your Learning Modules tab and title it "WebQuest 2007."
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Homework assigned:
Week 2: Creating Course Content: Module 1 (3 hours)
- Begin creating first course module documents and uploading to the Angel LMS site. Referring to the tutorials and resources above to develop these documents. They will be stored in the Angel "WebQuest 2007" folder:
- Course syllabus: create in Microsoft Word
- Evaluation rubric: create in Angel, using the table feature and Angel html editor
- Course Overview and Expectations: created in Angel Page mode
- Contact Information: create a table using Angel html editor
- Create an Angel Discussion Forum
- Add a hyperlink to a self-assessment for online learning: http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/tutorials/pedagogy/selfeval.asp
Week 3:Enhancing your course (3 hours)
- Create an interactive icebreaker activity to engage students for the second module. This activity is intended to make your students comfortable in the online environment, with the technology, and to build a safe student-centered learning environment.
- There are several "Ice Breaker" activities to choose from in Engaging the Online Learner, by Rita-Marie Conrad and J. Ana Donaldson.
- Take an Angel quiz to see if your icebreaker activity meets recommended criteria. According to the authors, "the icebreaker should not require anything more than the ability to express knowledge of self." It is similar to meeting an acquaintance for the first time, and should "humanize the technology-mediated learning experience so that trust can be built among learners." There are several samples provided in their book, including "Classmate Quiz," One Word, and "Name That Movie."
Quiz is accessed via the WebQuest and completed online.
Week 4: It's a Wrap (3 hours)
Peer review of your course
Evaluation of your course modules
Workshop evaluation
Supplemental Materials/Resources:
Evaluation of Workshop Participants
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Beginning
1 |
Developing
2 |
Accomplished
3 |
Exemplary
4 |
Score |
Participant will learn how to use Angel LMS to develop an online course.
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Unable to use the LMS.
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Novice.
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Medium-level skill set.
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Expert Angel user.
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| Participant will create effective course information materials using by appropriate technology, tools and tutorials. |
Unable to create documents.
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Able to create under 50% of assigned documents.
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Able to create over 50% of assigned documents.
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Able to create all assigned documents.
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Participant will create interactive learner-centered activity to engage students in an icebreaker module. |
Cannot comprehend construction of the icebreaker activity.
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Minimal understanding of how to create an icebreaker activity.
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Needs some work.
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Exemplar model of icebreaker activity.
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Evaluation of the Workshop
Using an anonymous survey to collect feedback, participants will evaluate the session on the time allotted, the content, and how valuable they found the information. Length of session will be adjusted accordingly. The participants did not rate the content very high, I will add more to it based on their responses. If the information provided was valuable, I will use that to guide the next session.
Evaluation of the Workshop |
Please rate the following items from the workshop on a scale of 1-5. (1=disagree; 5=agree). |
Scale |
| There was enough time allowed for completion of the tasks in this workshop. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
| The articles were relevant to the tasks assigned. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
| The tutorials were easy to understand and helpful. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
| I learned a lot from this WebQuest and would participate again. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
| The outcomes were what I expected and I was able to create my own course modules. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
Please add additional comments and suggestions below:
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Last updated 8-17-2007
Anne Canale Stalnecker
acanale@brockport.edu