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Nature of course request C00210 :

New course

Graduate

First term offered :
Course Prefix&Number	Descriptive Title	Credits/Hours
CSE 694	Blogs in Education	1 -

Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Blogs in Education

Catalog Description: This course explores uses of blogs in education, focusing on creating blogs for both teaching and professional development purposes. Students will learn to create blogs using a variety of free blogging tools, add media to blogs, market their blogs, communicate with parents, students, colleagues, and professionals via blogs, teach with blogs, embed blogs in their websites, and more.

Course Goal and Objectives: ¿ Become familiar with a variety of free and inexpensive blogging tools appropriate for educational use ¿ Develop skills for blogging, including both production skills and administrative skills ¿ Design, produce, and maintain an educational blog ¿ Develop a marketing plan for their blog so that they can reach a targeted audience

Justification for adding the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): This course will meet elective requirements for the MSED Information Technology program as well as the MAT technology component. The class is aligned with ISTE National Educational Technology Standards and the Framework for 21st Century Learning, which form the framework for the MSEd Information Technology program and underlie the technology requirement for teacher licensure.

Faculty and facilities needed: No additional faculty or facilities needed.

Brief Course outline: ¿ Explore blogs online (write a review of features and characteristics of blogs) ¿ Explore the use of blogs in education (research literature on use of blogs in society and in education) ¿ Explore and exchange ideas about safety ¿ Establish a blog for educational purposes, with external sources, connections to other blogs, and appropriate for a variety of targeted audiences ¿ Discuss blogging from the instructional design point of view ¿ Establish an educational blog for use by students for a collaborative project and for discussion ¿ Use a class blog for some projects in this class ¿ Marketing blogs: discuss techniques and develop a marketing plan

Approval Queue C00210

Attached Files:

CSE_694_Blogs.doc

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