This course is scheduled to be designed in the summer and taught and evaluated in Fall 2006.

Sunday, July 02, 2006

Course Design (Again!)

Well, I thought I had finished the design but it seems like I haven't yet.

I decided that I wanted to work with templates. One of my goals is to be able to share my design so I decided to teach myself about Dreamweaver templates.

I set up a teaching notes page on my site with the following info:

Teaching Notes:

Teaching Notes:

Design Overview

This course site is designed using templates and nested templates.

I used templates because they allow me and any user the flexibility to place different texts on different levels of the nest in order to be more efficient. The following is the design of the site nest and what you can edit by designing documents using different templates.


Site Architecture Explanation

Main Index Page --This page

  • has all the layout design and can be edited.

  • if used as a template for a new document, the new document will have the top and bottom bars locked. To edit those, you must open the index template and make the changes there. The changes will appear in all other documents.

  • the top and bottom bars are the only navigation bars which will not change throughout the site.

  • it also includes instructor information which will not change throughout the site. This allows one to go in and change the instructor information only once for the entire site.

  • the blue navigation bar stays editable because that will serve as the main navigation bar for each unit which will have links to different resources and tags to different parts of the portfolio page.

  • content and on this page information should not be edited on this page.


Course Info Templates--This page

  • was created using the Main index page template.

  • has all the layout design but has the top and bottom bars locked.

  • this template was used to create the course info pages.

  • to edit the blue navigation bar for this particular unit (course info), open the template page.

  • all unit or course info pages will show the new information.

  • content and on this page information should not be edited on this page.

  • creating a page using this template will lock the blue navigation bar (since all unit pages should have the same navigation bar to point students to the same resources as they work on the unit assignments); on this new page you will be able to edit content and on this page information.

Unit/Portfolio Template--This template page

  • was created using the Main index page template.

  • has all the layout design but has the top and bottom bars locked.

  • this template is used to create the portfolio pages.

  • to edit the blue navigation bar for this particular unit (portfolio), open this template page.

  • all portfolio or unit pages will show the new information.

  • each portfolio or unit has its own template; editting portfolio 1 template will not change portfolio 2 pages.

  • content and on this page information should not be edited on this page.

  • creating a page using this template will lock the blue navigation bar (since all unit pages should have the same navigation bar to point students to the same resources as they work on the unit assignments); on this new page you will be able to edit content and on this page information.

  • note: this page Teaching Notes.html was created using the Portfolio 1 template. If you open this page the top, bottom and left navigation bars are locked and only content and on this page information can be edited.

Site Architecture Picture

  • Main Index Page Template

    • Course Info Template

      • Course Info Page

      • Expanded Description

      • Grading Criteria

      • Learning Outcomes

      • Materials

    • Portfolio 1 Template

      • Portfolio 1 page

      • Media resources

      • Assignment Details

      • Discussion Details

      • etc.


    • Portfolio 2 Template

      • Portfolio 2 page

      • Media resources

      • Assignment Details

      • Discussion Details

      • etc.

    • Portfolio 3 Template

      • Portfolio 3 page

      • Media resources

      • Assignment Details

      • Discussion Details

      • etc.

    • Portfolio 4 Template

      • Portfolio 4 Page

      • Media resources

      • Assignment Details

      • Discussion Details

      • etc.

    • Final Essay

I still haven't worked out how I'm going to work out my pages in WebCt. I thought I had figured something out but it turned out to be a dead end. I tried Jeff's (I don't know who he is) and played with the header settings in the WebCt Page. But the headers can be set for the first page or for the whole class site. What I wanted to do won't work. I'll figure something out.

The course shell is online at www.janiesantoy.com/CompositionI/index.html


3 Comments:

Blogger Rich said...

Very good idea about using templates. This will save you much time later. Might get confusing to call some of your units portfolios. Portfolio 1, Portfolio 2, etc. Does this mean the students will create multiple portfolios? Always best to simplify.

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