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Evaluation |
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| Mission
Statement |
Accessibility |
| Target
Audience |
Copyright |
| Learning
Objectives |
Evaluation |
| Site
Navigation Aids |
E-mail |
Target Audience
Mission Statement I propose to teach an online Web based course entitled The Beatles: Across the Curriculum that will explore the achievements The Beatles made to the humanities and the cultural world by allowing students to investigate materials and activities designed for various curricular areas. I want to offer this course in a Web based environment because it provides the best method of presentation for the proposed activities and it will allow students to use new educational tools that help students learn and become successful. It was modeled using the Constuctivist learning theory that allows students to select their own path of learning by selecting the types of assignments that work best for their particular learning style.
In addition to The Beatles: Across the Curriculum resource list to links, I plan to provide links to my resume, resources, web design, and copyright information. These links will be added to the page directly underneath The Beatles: Across the Curriculum resource links list. I will create a separate table to display these links.
I have added a resume page to give the user insight to the author of the page. This online document will include a link to my biography. It will also contain an E-mail address so the user can reach the author to ask questions and give suggestions for the site. I believe a resume page will give the site more credibility because the users will have the opportunity to read about the background of the author.
To see the resume page, please click here.
The resources page will include a listing of all of the links that are used throughout the Web site. The resources page is included as a type of accessibility feature. A user may look at one page, rather than individual pages, to get an overview of all of the links that are available on this subject from this site.
To see a partial list of the resources used in The Beatles: Across the Curriculum, please click here.
The Web design page is made available for users who wish to learn more about how and why the site was set up in this particular manner. It is divided into two sections. The other section describes the needs analysis, physical layout, block diagram, graphic design, and examples of good and bad Web page design.
To see the other Web design page, please click here.
The copyright page will include a summary of copyright regulations primarily for use in educational settings. The links provided on the copyright page will direct users to "Fair Use" guidelines. Also included on the copyright page will be references to the sources used for gathering textual information and graphics.
To see the copyright page, please click here.
| This course will be designed for students in
senior high, college, and other interested adults. It
will include information that can be valuable for a novice Beatle fan and an experienced Beatlemaniac. The student should have an interest in learning about English grammar, research papers, the 1960's, or The Beatles. This site is also intended to be used in the Wellington High School Media Center. The audience at Wellington High School includes all faculty, students and staff. They will be able to access the site and use it as a learning activity designed for Internet beginners. |
Learning Objectives
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| A wide variety of objectives are outlined for this course. I have listed them in a seperate page for easier viewing. Please click here to view the objectives for The Beatles: Across the Curriculum. |
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| All of the pages have a site navigation aid. There is a link provided at the bottom of each page that will link back to the home page for "The Beatles: Across the Curriculum." If pages included in the site are longer than the recommended length of two 640 X 480 screens, I have added targets as navigational links to specific headings listed on the page. A user may return to the top of the screen at any time by clicking on the title of a section. |
Copyright
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| Copyright and plagiarism issues are very serious matters for
everyone that is involved using the Internet, the World Wide Web, and/or
print materials. Copyright laws protect the rights of the owners against
copying, using, and displaying their work without compensation and/or credit
cited. Authors who are copyright owners actually own exclusive rights to
all of their published work.
The type of work that the owner publishes does not matter. The owner may create a literary piece, dramatic work, musical piece, artistic work, or Web site design. If a person uses another person's work without giving the owner compensation for their work or getting expressed written permission to use their work, it is very possible that they are in violation of the copyright laws. However, there are exceptions to the copyright law that fall under the umbrella of the "Fair Use" statute of the Federal Copyright Act of 1976. This "Fair Use" statute allows educators and students to freely use any information that they may legally find on the Internet as long as they use this information for scholarly purposes. The user may not plagiarize any of the information that is found. We all learned in school that copying someone's work and taking credit for it is totally unexceptible. The same is true when using information found on the Internet. These "Fair Use" guidelines need to be understood by all those involved in higher education. Copyright and plagiarism issues concerning the Internet are still being debated. The issues are not cut and dry. The Web sites listed on the copyright resources page are devoted to many different factors that are considered by users who want to stay in compliance with copyright laws. To see the copyright resources page, please click here. The graphics seen on this web site are all copyright free. Although they did not ask for credit, I wanted to give credit where credit is due. The three sites that allowed me to use their clip art are listed below. Pepperland - Picture archive is divided into album cover, year, and bootleg sections. Browse the photographs and illustrations. Available: http://www.indy.net/~pepperlh/ WebGraphique - This is a wonderful site where you can search for the graphic you need by typing in the name of your subject. Available: http://www.graphsearch.com Aunt Annie's - Although this site is devoted to doll collecting, Aunt Annie also has several clip art pages. It's a great site! You should visit it! Available:http://www.auntie.com Beatles
- StwBryFld's MIDI Page: All of the songs on this site came from this
page. It contains MIDI files and lyrics of many Beatles songs, organized
chronologically by album.
The Beatles images are all copyrighted by Apple Corps.
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Web page accessibility
| At the top of the page I decided to create
a link to another home page that will contain all of the information on
the main page, but will be designed for easier Web page accessibility.
In this version of the home page I will not include a table because multi-column
presentations can be troublesome for visitors with accessibility problems.
I also will not include any graphics on the main home page for the accessibility
challenged. I will however, have graphics on all of the sub topic
pages linked to the main page. Each of these graphics will have an alternative
short text description or small label. All of the subject area links
will be typed using capital letters. This method will distinguish
the subject area links if the visitor is using speech or Braille access
technology.
Understanding that keeping links separated is important, I decided to use Shift and enter keys to place horizontal rules between the links. By using horizontal rules between the links it may help prevent the accessibly challenged from getting bad information. If only a carriage return is used, the speech or Braille access technology might view links separated by a carriage return as one link. An E-mail link at the bottom of each page will allow the viewer to submit information instead of filling out a form for the evaluation of the page. |
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| The evaluation of a course begins
with the pre-course survey, continues by evaluating the learner's progress
with activities, and moves onto the post-course survey. It is important
to measure the level of student experience as they enter and proceed through
the course in order to judge the effectiveness of the learning activities
and measure what they have learned when they complete the course.
The pre-course survey, the section evaluations, and the post-course survey
data must all be collected and analyzed in order to get a true picture
of the learning that has taken place. This information is then used
to revise and refine the course.
For the post-course evaluation, I created a CGI form based on an article written by Terry King (1998), entitled "Checklist for the Evaluation of Web Courseware." This evaluation instrument can be seen in Appendix I. The CGI form allows the users to electronically submit the form directly to the instructor for data collection and analysis. It asks the users to evaluate the course elements such as interactive environment, instructional strategy, navigational design, resources, structure, scope, interaction with instructor, and technical issues. The combined information will be used to determine the level of learning achieved and the effectiveness of the instructional materials. If the materials and activities were well-designed, the evaluation will prove that this course provided a self-directed, interactive environment, that allowed students to improve basic skills and computer literacy. I will also use self-evaluation to determine the worth of this web site. I understand that my idea of what makes up a great web site will probably be different from the opinions of others. But, I will follow the guidelines proposed in an Acrobat Reader presentation that was written by Classroom Connections, "Teaching Media Literacy in the Age of the Internet: The ABC's of Web Site Evaluation" (1999). To see a listing of evaluation resources, please click here. To fill out the evaluation form, please click here. |
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