Contact and Deadline Information

Instructor: Bruce R. Gottwig M.Ed. Adjunct Instructor
Address: 1409 10th Avenue NW Great Falls, MT 59404
Telephone: 406-452-1437
E-mail:

bgottwig@bresnan.net – Home
 

bgottwig@msugf.edu - Work
Web Site Bruce Gottwig Website
  my.lesley.edu
   

Course Materials: 

General Information

Education today thrives in a predominate multimedia world. Because of this, instructors are challanged in finding and using technology in such a way as to enhance the way they teach and guide their students to thrive as well. ECOMP 6009 is such a class. The overall goal of ECOMP 6009 is to discover how to create and maintain educational and personal websites in order to communicate and inform others. Specifically We will:

Outside of the textbook, all documentation will be stored on the my.lesley.edu website. This website will be used for enhancements to the course including helpful links and information.

We realize that each educator taking this class enters at different levels. The scope of this course does not assume anyone has had any experience doing web design; therefore, we will start at the beginning. It is hopeful that those with experience will be available to help others in the class as needed. Remember, that we are all in this together and are here to reach a common goal of designing and publishing an effective and useful website.

Policy for Students with Disabilities

"Lesley College is committed to ensuring the full participation of all students in its programs. Accordingly, if a student has a documented disability, and, as a result, needs some accommodation to complete course requirements, he/she should inform the instructor at the beginning of the course. For further information about services through Lesley College for students with disabilities, contact the Office of Student Affairs on the main campus at (617) 349-8544 [TDD] or (617) 349-8543[Voice]."

This graduate level course for three credits requires 45 in-class hours of attendance. Attendance for all sessions is required. In the event that an absence due to an extreme personal emergency, individual students must confer with the instructor to arrange to make-up the course material missed. In such cases, students will be required to complete additional assignments.

Grading Scale

Rating
Point Spread
Score(%)
Grade
Superior 400 – 380 100 – 93
A
  370 – 360 93 – 90
A-
Excellent 355 – 350 89 – 88
B+
Good 340 – 330 85 – 83
B
Acceptable 325 – 320 82 – 80
B-
Unacceptable 310 – Below 79 – Below
Fail

 

Incomplete Grades

Students who find it impossible to complete course requirements by the due date may request an grade of "incomplete". To do this you must notify your instructor, in writing, prior to the end of the class and explain your need for a grade of incomplete.

Depending on the circumstances, late projects may be dropped one grade level. For example, an A to a B or a B to a B-. Incomplete grades must be taken care of no later than the end of the semester immediately following the current semester. After this, the incomplete grade becomes a permanent grade.

Lesley College is committed to ensuring the full participation of all students in its programs. Accordingly, if a student has a documented disability, and, as a result, needs some accommodation to complete course requirements, he/she should inform the instructor at the beginning of the course.

For further information about services through Lesley College for students with disabilities, contact the Office of Student Affairs on the main campus at (617) 349-8544 (TDD) or (617) 348-8543 (Voice).

These guidelines are presented in the Lesley College Graduate School Student Handbook

Assignments

All assignments must be completed on time, or prior to, their due date. Active class participation, which accounts for a large part of your grade, means that you should take an active role in course discussions and presentations.

In this course, missing four consecutive hours results in a grade reduction by 3%, regardless of make-up work, due to the lab notebook contribution to grades. Most assignments will be submitted electronically through email; however, if you choose to provide paper copies and wish to have your assignments to be returned, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope of sufficient postage with your project. If you would like confirmation that your project has been received, then please include a SAS postcard, or a note with your email address.

Academic Honesty Policy

True learning can only exist in an environment of intellectual honesty. As future professionals, you have a particular responsibility to yourselves and society to conduct your academic studies with integrity. The Lesley community must refuse to allow plagiarism and cheating; all of us must work to create an environment where intellectual curiosity and honesty are valued.

Plagiarism is defined as using or knowingly representing the words or ideas of another as your own in any academic exercise. Cheating is defined as using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information or study aids in any academic exercise.

You have specific responsibilities in maintaining academic integrity in the community:

Violation of the Lesley University prohibition of cheating or plagiarism may result in lowered grades, suspension from classes or dismissal from the University.

http://www.lesley.edu/abc/abcpolicy.html

Journal Requirement

Each day you will be asked to reflect on how the day went for you and answer three questions in an online journal. You will be given 10-15 minutes to write an entry. If available you will be using Blackboard http://my.lesley.edu as a way to enter your responses. Take a few minutes to reflect on what you have learned, and another few minutes to write it down. Meet the following requirements:

Your notebook will help you, and the instructor, understand the class and your own learning. Additionally, the journal will provide feedback to the instructor to make mid-course corrections and will be used to determine your participation. As you reflect on your thoughts and feelings about your learning and about the material it should also deepen our discussions in class. 

Group Discussion Rubric

[MA Professional Standards7.08 (2) (a)(2); 7.08 (2) (b) 1. b]

This rubric is used to determine your participation in course discussions.

Attribute
Emerging
Competent
Exemplary
Listening Recognizes and responds to others speaking. . Engages listening processes regularly. Frequently listens to class discussions
Contributing Rarely talks during the discussion or talk is off the subject. Offers few ideas to the discussion. Shares freely and explains with details. Makes connections to what others say. Talk inspires others. Supports and leads others in discussion.
Conceptualizing Not often uses technological language accurately Uses course technological language with regular accuracy. Uses technological language fluently.

 

Project Guidelines Requirements

The class will develop learning primarily by doing. Throughout the two weekends you we will work together on a simple project which will grow through the duration of the class. This project will give you an excellent resource which can be used in developing your own website. The final product we will create can be used as a template for your final project. You will also be given time over the two weekends to apply what you have learned from the sample project. This project will test you on whether you truly understand the concepts introduced in class. It is suggested that after each concept that you print the completed text file to be included within your notebook. In doing this you will be creating your own tutorial book which can aide you in your own projects.

Midterm Project

Part 1: Review a site

Choose a site on the WWW and write a critique of the design and content. Consider the information presented, audience, overall design, use of graphics, sound, and javascript features. Indicate strengths and weaknesses. Print out several sample pages from the site to accompany your critique. This project is a preliminary step towards designing your own web page. Hand this project in during the second weekend.

Part 2: Create a Site

Write up a one page description of your site, intended audience, goals, technical issues, types of graphics needed, information needed. (If you would like feedback BEFORE the second weekend, feel free to email your plans to me at bgottwig@bresnan.net or bgottwig@msugf.edu .

You may, as an option, wish to create a map of your site (by hand or using INSPIRATION) in order to plan your site organization. Note: It's fine if this is a preliminary plan and doesn't in fact reflect your final project. The idea is to take an opportunity to plan the structure of your site and brainstorm how it will fit together.

Consider design issues, placement of graphics, size of the photos, navigational links to return to the top page. Use your experience critiquing other pages as you develop this project. Note: You are not required to use every fancy feature in the book. You may design your site with Shaker simplicity if this suits your purposes. Also, remember to consider the folks using s l o w modems! Finally, given the ever changing nature of the web, I suggest that your site use the "loose" from of XHTML, namely

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

You may choose to develop this as a project for your class, school, yourself, your classmates, or a family home page. If you wish, you may expand upon your in-class labs.