week/deadline 8--the end!

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• listen to weekly podcast
• course build: Construct a solid draft of your course syllabus (especially the policies section). Share the document with the entire class in Google Docs. When you comment on one another’s drafts, try to focus on making the policies more effective for web-based teaching and learning issues.
  

• new technologies: timelines: Check out Dandelife, OurStory, and xtimeline. Right now I especially like xtimelines because it allows the user to make multiple timelines about different topics. These online timeline tools allow you to include text, pictures, audio, video, and any other embeddable object (I put a quick survey in one) in the specific date/time entry. The other two sites only allow you to make an individual personal timeline (which still could be useful in a class. What if you were teaching the health and wellness class and had students track when they exercised, what they ate, etc. in the timeline?). xtimeline, as you can see from the front page, allows individuals to make multiple timelines on different topics. This is just a last "fun" tool for you to consider developing alternative assessment/evaluation projects for your students. Please do share if you think of some fun course projects!
  
• blog entry: Build a timeline working back from when course goes live to now. What do you need to finish? When do you plan to finish it? You can either just type that in your blog entry, or play with one of the timeline tools to get a feel for them. If you play with the timeline tool, be sure to provide a URL for the rest of us to follow.
• iGoogle: add, organize & revise to your polished version online teaching and learning resource page. Be sure to re-share it with me one last time.
• end-of-course survey: Please take the end-of-course survey located at...I'll get that up in the next day or two.
  
• wiki entry: Post an annotated bibliography entry on the course wiki page about online course syllabi and/or policies