Evidence of Analytical and Integrative Thinking

Fall Semester, 2003*

EDCI 797a - Merging the Content Curriculum and Technology - This three credit hour course is designed to assist students in exploring and developing expertise with emerging models of curriculum design as it can be used to create innovative and robust learning experiences for students.  Attention is paid to understanding the role of constructivism, multiple intelligences, expertise, representative problems, performances of understanding, FACTS, and DEAPR as they apply to the design of curriculum.  These concepts will be used to frame activities that promote the design of virtual high school courses.

EDIT 797a - Web-Based Publishing - This three credit hour course is designed to assist students in mastering web page publication.  Attention will be paid to web page layout and design considerations, page linking, effective color and font design, and web page production.  These concepts will be used to frame activities that promote the production of virtual high school courses.

Spring Semester, 2004*

EDCI 797b - Research and Conceptions of the Content Fields - This three credit hour course is designed to assist students in understanding state-of-the-art conceptions that guide curriculum development in their own content field.  Students will divide into small groups by content area and work with methods faculty who research student learning in their own content field.  These concepts will be used to frame activities that promote the design of virtual high school courses.

EDIT 797b - Advanced Web-Based Publishing and Graphics Tools - This three credit hour course is designed to assist students in mastering advanced web-page design strategies.  Attention will be paid to extending student knowledge about web page layout and design considerations and web page production.  In particular, students will learn about strategies for adapting web publications to meet individual styles and needs and to ensure web publications meets 508 Compliance standards.  Graphic selection, design, and production will be introduced during this course.  These concepts will be used to frame activities that promote the production of virtual high school courses.

Summer Semester, 2004*

EDCI 797c - Designing and Teaching the Problem-Centered Curriculum -This three credit hour course is designed to assist students in selecting and developing problems effective for centering student learning.  Attention will be paid to the connection between learning and its applications as well as the role of the online teacher as expert mentor.  Students will learn to assess student work for conceptual misunderstandings and strategies for promoting conceptualization and reconceptualization.  These concepts will be used to frame activities that promote the design of virtual high school courses.

EDIT 797c - Advanced Graphic Design and Digital Video -This three credit hour course is designed to assist students in a comprehensive understanding of how to design and select appropriate graphical information for use on the Web.  Attention will be paid to graphic design principles, production of edited and original graphics, and graphic file structures.  Digital video will be introduced during this course.  These concepts will be used to frame activities that promote the production of virtual high school courses.

Fall Semester, 2004*

EDCI 797d - Best Practices in the Content Fields - This three credit hour course is designed to assist students in understanding best instructional practices in their own content field.  Students will divide into small groups by content area and work with methods faculty who research effective teaching in their own content field.  These concepts will be used to frame activities that promote the production of virtual high school courses.

EDIT 797d - Advanced Video Editing and Video Publication - This three credit hour course is designed to assist students in mastering digital video production and editing as well as strategies for using digital video to support online learning.  These concepts will be used to frame activities that promote the production of virtual high school courses.

Spring Semester, 2005

EDCI 797e - Online Teaching - This three credit hour course is designed to assist students in articulating the ways in which SOLs and blueprints have been used to construct courses, in creating rubrics and other evaluative techniques for use in online learning, and in the preparation of online teacher support materials.  These concepts will be used to frame effective teaching in virtual high school course environments as well as the development of teacher materials to accompany produced virtual courses.

EDIT 797e - HTML and Java Scripting - This three credit hour course is designed to assist students in developing expertise with the coding structures which underlie the publication of web materials.  Advanced techniques in html and Java coding will be taught in order to facilitate students' abilities to embed special features in their web publications.  These concepts will be used to frame activities that promote the production of virtual high school courses.

Summer Semester, 2005

EDCI 790f - Internship in Online Teaching - This three credit hour course provides supervised practice in applying the knowledge and skills acquired throughout the program in an appropriate work setting, i.e. teaching an online summer school course, evaluating student learning in online environments, or teaching/inservicing other teachers as they become online teachers themselves.  The exact nature of the internship will be individually planned with faculty supervision.

EDIT 797f - Web-Site Design and Management - This three credit hour course is designed to assist students in the design and maintenance of web sites.  These concepts will be used to frame activities that promote the production of virtual high school courses.