User:Erbingha/Teaching

Topics to be covered: What makes for effective web-based teaching?

Goals: To be able to use the web as a means of conducting educational programs.

Skills needed: File Management, and a basic understanding of the HTML Level 1 skills.

• What makes for effective web-based teaching?
  • Evaluate one of the following:
    • String Figures http://home.eznet.net/~stevemd/stringar.html
    • Creating Better Newsletters http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/it/itaids/online/cbn/
    • Virtual Frog Dissection Kit http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/dissect.html
    • Cyber Savvy http://www.cybersavvy.org/

• What tools are available? What do you need to use them? What are the limitations?
  • HTML
  • E-Mail
  • Images
  • Animated GIFs
  • Chat
  • News
  • Listservers
  • Threaded Discussions
  • Audio
  • Video
  • JavaScript
  • CGI Scripts
  • Java

• What is good web design?
  • Identify the real problem or need.
  • Identify the audience.
  • Know what you expect them to learn.
  • Use activities and methods that accomplish the objectives.
  • Make sure it is accessible from browser your audience is using.
  • Use colors to enhance the readability of the pages.
  • Organize the site so it is easy to navigate.
  • Pages should load quickly.
  • Use graphics that serve an educational purpose, create interactivity or clarify a statement.

• How do I make it effective?
  • Have a clear purpose.
  • Keep it tightly focused.
  • Engage the learner.
    • Allow learners to react to situations.
    • Create ways for learners to interact with each other and you.
    • Give the learner a variety of teaching tools to choose from.
    • Allow the learners to interact with the learning environment.
  • Make appropriate use of a variety of media.

• Develop a team to teach online.
  • Why?
  • How?
    • Barriers
    • Aids

John Dorner, IV / North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service /