Instructor: Sandy Ockenden
Office: MacLaurin A454
Office Hours: By appointment
e-mail: sandyock@uvic.ca
enhance classroom learning. This will be achieved by students developing skills in internet
research, communication, and publishing, and being able to apply these skills to the learning
environment.
articles and issues, and individual or group contributions to the class and field. Assignment schedule.
1. Group Publishing - To demonstrate an understanding of how to use a variety of internet tools by
creatively and strategically using them to design an internet learning resource.
2. Individual Responses and Reflections - A chance for reflective analysis of the use of the internet as
a learning technology: How and why should the technology be used in the classroom? What role
should information technologies play in learning? What unique teaching opportunities and
constraints does the internet offer?
3. Individual Contributions to the Class and Field - From a student and instructor list of questions and
tasks students choose the ones that suit their interests. Each response will be handed in as a
webpage with supporting internet links. The responses will be added to the class website.
The instructor will also keep a skills checklist. All students will be expected to demonstrate the skills and tasks on the checklist.
Grading
| >90 A+ | 75-79 B+ | 60-64 C+ | <50 F |
| 85-89 A | 70-74 B | 55-59 C | |
| 80-84 A- | 65-69 B- | 59-54 D |