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[an error occurred while processing this directive] In the Fall 2000 semester, the course is offered exclusively through the distance learning scheduling option called LEEP. Some useful links: Course activities include:
Investigate. Virtually all of the readings are online. Some of the resources are available through the Library and Information Science Library Reserves. See the Guidelines for the UIUC electronic reserves. Other resources are web-based and are either included in or linked from the course units. We will also use tools that support inquiry, such as spreadsheets, data bases, and simulations.
Dialogue. Course work emphasizes collaboration and communiction. We will make active use of the Internet and the World Wide Web, synchronous and asynchronous conferencing, and other collaborative environments, and crtique new communications media, such as Internet radio, groupware, and email. We will share work through web pages and both oral and written presentations. Each week there are asynchronous discussions in web board. Roughly every two weeks there is a synchronous class discussion. On Sunday, October 8, there is an on-campus session.
Reflect. As John Dewey says, learning occurs when we extract meaning from experience. There is both an inward aspect of connecting experience to prior knowledge and an outward aspect of expressing our enlarged understanding. Throughout, there are opportunities to reflect on the work in the course, the insights we are developing as individuals and as a group. This reflection, essential to most kinds of learning, is central in a course such as this, as we consider the technologies we learn about and through. This will be done through asynchronous and synchronous media and through a reflection paper.
Create. The course is not a programming or web design course. Nevertheless, we will learn about new technologies through active use. These tools include those that support construction, such as presentation makers, word processors, data bases, and web page editors. Much of the course work is organized around a major project with several milestones across the semester.