Student Participation

During the course, you will create and maintain a corpus of work called an electronic portfolio or, "ePortfolio". Each week you will participate in WebBoard discussions and post assignments in CTERbase. The final step in completing many of these activities will be to upload the file to your directory on our server and link the file from your ePortfolio page. Your ePortfolio will be accessible to anyone on the web who knows the URL of your ePortfolio page. This will provide a valuable resource for other educators. See procedures for submitting assignments.

There will be regular synchronous internet chats, especially for students taking the course online. The purpose of the chat sessions is to have a somewhat more lively interaction, where we can talk about things such as project ideas or technology issues in the schools. This is not for specific technical problems, which are best addressed to the tech support team.

Depending on your interests, we may use the chats in various ways. For example, we might decide to run multiple chat rooms simultaneously. You can also use the chat rooms yourselves at any time. For example, you could set up a time for your project group to get together to discuss project strategy.