Introduction & Outline

Goals & Objectives Instructors Workshop Outline

Instructors

Jeanne Hites, Ed.D. (Northern Illinois University--Instructional Technology); Associate Professor of Information Media, St. Cloud State University. Background in corporate training and instructional design.

Keith Ewing, MLS (The University of Texas-Austin); Professor of Information Media, St. Cloud State University. Background in library information technologies and reference services.

Workshop Outline

Day One

1. Introductions and Overview

2. Instructional Design
   • Overview

   • Analysis (instructional goals, audience & instructional analysis, performance objectives/assessment items)

   • Rapid Prototyping (prioritizing development)

   • Chunk & Structure Information (cognition, memory, information structure, segmenting instruction)

   • Visual Design (basics of graphic and text design and their relationship to each other)

   • Instructional Strategies (whatever)

   • Support Materials (handouts, presentation support (e.g., PowerPoint, Web-based, etc.)

   • Evaluation (implementation, evaluation, revision...)

3. Web-based Instructional/Informational Materials
   • Overview (hypertext and cognition)

   • HTML Basics (creating a simple Web page

   End of Day One (phew).

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   Day Two

   • Continuation of Web-based Instructional/Informational Materials

   • Adding Character (font handling)

   • Enhancing with Graphics (integrating graphics with text)

   • Moving into Hypertext (when, where, and how to link to other documents)

   • Setting Tables (using tables to display data or create layout)

   • Forming Interactions (using forms and email to allow interaction)

   • Mapping Structure (organizing multiple page Web environments)

4. Assignment for days 3-4.
   Utilizing the knowledge gained through this workshop, develop a Web-based instructional support or auto-tutorial module for a course you teach. You could mount the resulting module on your server and send us the URL or copy to disk and send it to us at SCSU (via Minitex) and we will critique the design and format. We will not comment on content, but may make suggestions on organization and coding. Please include an email address to which we can respond.

5. Workshop Evaluation

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Copyright © 1997 Created March 1997 Last Revision: October 8, 1997 E-mail: jhites@stcloudstate.edu E-mail: kewing@stcloudstate.edu URL: http://lrs.stcloudstate.edu/cim/courses/pine/intro.html