It's Saturday morning and I'm messing with my computers thinking about 675 and how to structure the course. One of the exciting parts of teaching about the Internet is, as I said in the last post, it is always changing. My thoughts this morning are that I need to be a facilitator more than a teacher in this course. That is as the old saying goes, 'A guide on the side, not a sage on the stage'. The role I hope to take in 675 is to point you in a direction that fulfills your needs in the course and let you explore and create products that are useful to you in your work. When I looked at the responses to the Blackboard survey (11 of 17 have responded) it was almost everyone's first choice of what they wanted to learn was material that could be used in the classroom right away. In order to meet that mandate I must depend on you to take the raw material we discover on the Internet and massage it into classroom ready lessons. This work will take a joint effort... my knowledge and creativity in knowing and finding what I think is interesting stuff and your skill and creativity in making it classroom ready.
My hope is that 675 will stretch you outside your comfort zone, grow not only your Internet skills but energize and engage your creative instincts to go where other teachers have not gone (at least not very often).
I didn't mention it in the text of the first blog post but at the bottom of the post is a link to a video about creating your own blog (that will be Project #1).
I'll add info about our meetings here but will also send an email:
To: Candidates Enrolled in EDUC 675, Spring, 2008
CC: Office of Graduate Studies
Office of the Registrar
David Heigle, Course Instructor
From: Katherine Reichley, Professional Education Unit Coordinator
Re: Meeting Dates
Date: October 29, 2007
Message:
Although EDUC 675-OL is an online course, the instructor, David Heigle, has elected to hold two sessions on campus. They are as follows:
Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 7:00-9:00 p.m., Roush 204
Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 7:00-9:00 p.m., Roush 204
Mr. Heigle can be reached at dheigle@otterbein.edu if you have any questions about the course.
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As someone who once was very technologically savvy, I'm looking forward to experimenting with some new internet tools that have become popular in the last few years.
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