Thursday, June 5, 2008

eLearning Institute

Instructional Design & Technology Department hosted the eLearning Institute for Emporia State University faculty in June, 2008. There are five strands:

Essentials
Web 2.0/Social Web
Multimedia
Universal Design (Meeting the Needs of All Students)
Blackboard

Monday, April 9, 2007

Special Education Project 2006

Project ESU: Moving to the Next Level with Preservice General
and Special Education Faculty Collaboration

Monday, December 18, 2006
VH 345 8:45 am - Noon

Media Service Options
For "Best Practices"
Harvey Foyle, Professor
Instructional Design & Technology Department
Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas


Goal 2. Special education faculty will assist general education "methods" faculty to explore educational media service options for "best practices" to be incorporated into methods course syllabi to offer supplemental materials that are aligned to reinforce "core curriculum" or state-standards-based accountability and to support future general education students toward better service of students with special needs in their inclusive classroom. (Grant Proposal)

The following outline presents the basics of the workshop.

I. Assistive & Adaptive Technology

A WebQuest for a University Technology Course
http://esueducation.tripod.com/
http://www.foyle.tc/

II. Auditory Learners (hearing)

A. Word document audio comments
Start > All Programs > Accessories > Entertainment > Sound Recorder
60 second limit
Insert Object > Create from File > Browse > Link to file > Display as icon

C. Windows Media Player (PC)

D. iTunes (PC & Mac)

E. GarageBand (Mac)

F. Audio Files (Podcasts, Webpages)


III. Visual Learners (seeing) (PC & Mac)

Reading with Audio Files (Blogs/Weblogs)
Blogger (free Google account)
http://www.blogger.com/start

IV. Kinesthetic Learners (doing)

A. WebQuests (PC or Mac)

1. WebQuest from Templates (some web authoring skills required, web host required)
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/

Training Materials > Lesson Templates for Students and Teachers
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/LessonTemplate.html
Use Traditional, No-Frame Version

2. QuestGarden (no web authoring skills required)
http://webquest.org

QUESTION: Which Media Service Option do you plan to incorporate into your methods courses? Explain.