Facilitating Collaboration in Content Areas - MEDIA SABDA

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Gerald Boerner

Computer Science, Azusa Pacific University

John Coverdale

CIS, Riverside Community College/Norco

AAHE 2000 (Anaheim, CA)

Facilitating Collaboration

in Content Areas

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The following Tips and Hints are intended to assist you in developing an effective plan for using these techniques in the classroom.

Planning for the Course

Origins of the Model

2Context —

n Riverside Community College/Norco minicourse

n Context (3 Saturdays for 8 hours per day) 2Content —

n Strategy to Teach Internet Technologies

n Appropriate to almost any content area class 2Instructors —

n Gerald & Grace Boerner (Team Teaching)

Classroom Logistics

2 Teacher email addresses (use more than one!)

n Primary address for emergency contact

n Secondary address for special problems contact

n Routine address for standard copies of class

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2Message —

n All students need internet “savvy”

2Audience —

n Equal opportunity to all groups of students (gender, ethnic, language, cultural)

2Purpose —

n Extend our expectations for ALL

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Looking at the origins and elements of the EQUITY

Collaboration Model…

The E.Q.U.I.T.Y. Model

Introduction

2 Collaboration via the Web…

E — Educational Q — Quest U — Using I — Internet T — Technologies Y — Yourselves

2 The web enable us to provide ALL students with opportunities to extend their vision…

Project E.Q.U.I.T.Y. Model

2 Step 1: Email Access 2 Step 2: Email Mechanics 2 Step 3: Web Browsers 2 Step 4: Collaborating on

Web Research 2 Step 5: Sharing Findings

2 Step 7: Upload Pages to the Web Server

2 Step 8: Review Pages from other Groups

2 Step 9: Forward Critique to Group

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Walking through the 12-step process with commentary

from our experience…

A Closer Look at the Steps

Steps 1 & 2: E-mail Accounts

2Step 1: Get email account

n Web-based email accounts require less overhead for classroom use

n Join project mailing list (ListBot.com) 2Step 2: Develop email techniques

n Build address book, including group ID

n Exchange mail among team members

Steps 3 & 4: Web Research

2 “Remembering” best web sites

n IE5: Favorites, Export to Bookmarks

n NN: Bookmarks, Export to HTML 2 Differences between Browsers 2 Online Research Practice

n Print media (Online Bookstores)

n Search Engines (esp. Keywords)

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Step 5: Sharing Research

2 Effective Search Keywords:

n Threaded Discussions (SitePowerUp.com) 2 Annotated Bibliography

n Create in Word Processor

n Upload to “Shared Files” area (Group) 2 Web Bookmark Files

n As email attachments to group members

n Name file as: XXX_bookmark.htm (where XXX are your initials)

Step 6: Build Web Pages

2 See “Project Web Site: Required Elements”

2 Key Elements:

n Overview Page

n PowerPoint Slides (as HTML)

n Features & Analysis Pages

n Reference & Resource Pages

Step 7: Publish Web Pages

2 Submit files as a “zip” archive 2 Submit the web pages to the

instructor

n Use a “Drop Box” like www.boerner.net 2 Instructor posts the pages

2 Test URL and Access Rights

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n Be aware of mechanics — grammar, consistency 2 Check out the Linked Web Sites:

n Do they “work”? Are the links operational?

n Are they useful? Is there “real” content there?

2 Forward comments to the creating group via class “Threaded Discussion”

Steps 10 & 11: Revise Pages

2 Fix mechanics, as necessary:

2 Enhance web page format (tables, graphics, etc.) as time permits 2 Reverify the operability of the links 2 Resubmit to Instructor for re-

publishing to the web server

Step 12: Reflect on Collaboration

2 General Reactions to the Experience:

2 Reactions to the Learning Experience:

2 Submit the Reflections…

n General experiences to the “Threaded Discussion” area

n Personal experiences in an email to the instructor

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Exploring It Further…

Contacting Us:

Via the World Wide Web…

http://www.boerner.net/

By Email…

Jerry —[email protected] Grace —[email protected] John —[email protected]