Syllabus for CEL 555 Coyote Teaching Online

 

Syllabus for CEL 555 Coyote Teaching Online Week 1: Mentoring Online Week 2: Course Interactions Week 3: Fostering a Learning Community Week 4: Creating a Learning Environment Week 5: Creating and Adapting Course Content Week 6: Products and Outcomes Week 7: Trickster Techniques Week 8: Employing Socratic Method Week 9: Creating Heightened Awareness Week 10: Employing the Oral Tradition - Story Telling Week 11: Environment as Teacher Week 12: Outreach to Experts (ask the vole) Week 13: Evaluating Course Effectiveness Week 14: Evaluating Student Success Week 15: Fostering Life-Long Mentoring

 

Week 1: Mentoring Online

 

• Introductions and bios  (how does this begin the mentoring process)
  • WebCT postings
  • Create your own website, myspace, facebook
  • Create your own blog
• Developing a sense of community
  • Create a coffee room or lounge for student interactions
• Defining the instructor role
  • Instructor as "guide" not sage
  • Role in creating environments for interaction
  • Role in responding to postings
  • Role in providing feedback
    • Grading, Interactions, Timing

 

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Week 2: Course Interactions

 

• How will the students and faculty interact?
• Is synchronous better than asynchronous for mentoring?
• What technologies are best for mentoring and coyote teachings?

 

 

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Week 3: Fostering a Learning Community

 

• Theoretical background of constructivist method and learning community
• Accomplishing the task of establishing community
• Setting limits

 

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Week 4: Creating a Learning Environment

 

• Adaptive to different learning styles
• Adaptive to different learning speeds
• Creating the "need" to learn
  • Problem based learning
  • Reward structure
  • Collaborative reward system (creating new coyotes)

 

 

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Week 5: Creating and Adapting Course Content

 

• Integrative topic selection
  • Faculty based?
  • Student based?
  • Both?
  • Real or hypothetical?
  • Local or regional topic?
  • Single or comparative topic?
• Goal definitions (knowledge, skills, affective)
  • Short term
  • Long term

 

 

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Week 6: Products and Outcomes

 

• Traditional products (e.g. postings, written material, transcripts)
• Non-traditional products (scripts, movies, dramas, travelogs, etc.)
• Methods of measurement (e.g. rubrics)

 

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Week 7: Trickster Techniques

 

• Importance of negative consequences in learning
• Methods of delivering tricks in an online environment

 

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Week 8: Employing Socratic Method

 

• The use of discussion boards
• Carefully selecting the questions
  • open ended
  • engaging

 

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Week 9: Creating Heightened Awareness

 

• What do we mean by heightened awareness?
• how is this accomplished?

 

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Week 10: Employing the Oral Tradition - Story Telling

 

• Digital Story Telling
• Role of Digital Story Telling 

 

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Week 11: Environment as Teacher

 

• Concepts of shared intellectual landscape
• How is this accomplished?

 

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Week 12: Outreach to Experts (ask the vole)

 

• Identify experts from the literature
• Contacts and introductions
  • From the instructor
  • From student representatives

 

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Week 13: Evaluating Course Effectiveness

 

• Blah Blah Blah

 

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Week 14: Evaluating Student Success

 

• Blah Blah Blah

 

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Week 15: Fostering Life-Long Mentoring

 

• Blah Blah Blah

 

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Group Name	Members
Lobo	Ross, Michael, Nancy
Coyote Ugly	Ramit, David, Nathan
Coyote Moon	Fred, Susan, Georgia