Julie Fowler's e Portfolio: Syllabus Revision

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Sample Unit Outline
- Look at one unit of your course content and consider how it might need to change for an online version of your course

The Course Scope needs to mention the blended learning aspect of the course. The course goals need to include some detailing about online participation. The units should have links to each week's activities and will be posted on my blog? Or on Canvas or both? The units need to have the dates for presentational culminating projects. The materials list will change considerably given the added online resources and apps that will be used. The student phone usage advisory will need to be revised, as the students will be using their phones to access and practice online using the phone as a tool. In this section I need an Acceptable Use type contract. I will also want to attach some kind of online pre-assessment to evaluate language and technology skills. I will write rubrics to clearly detail HOW, WHEN and WHERE students will communicate, HOW, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN students' reading and listening skills will be assessed. All of these things will need to be on Canvas or my blog in a checklist, week by week style for ease of access and redundancy.

- What is important to keep in mind as you break up your schedule into weekly units?

I will keep in mind a simplified format, clearly stated instruction videos, reminders and redundancies all prepared in advance. All should be ready before the course begins. Students will need more time to complete online activities than the classroom activities.
TIME will be a major consideration. And clearly written scenarios. With the blended class, I am thinking just two online discussion type assignments per week for starters.

- How can you arrange your activities so that there is repetition and a cycling of activity types that is the same from week-to-week, or unit-to-unit?

I'm thinking that redundancies can be created in the Syllabus, during the weekly activities and during recycling in the units through links, emails, general announcement reminders, in the instructions for each presentation...

- Make an outline of this unit so you can add it to the syllabus revision list as an example of how you will structure your online course.

The Unit outline is attached.

Are there links you can add to your syllabus for important/required school/university information? (so you don't need to copy it all into the syllabus!). What does your school require you to have in your syllabus?

Absolutely. The FERPA application, tardy policies, Grade weights and standards, Notification of Progress, Student Conduct, the Cimarron Memorial High School Citizenship Rubric, The school website and district links for the calendar, my email address... probably many things that I have forgotten?