Anyone participating in the QFK study abroad program for credit will be evaluated on the basis of their participation in discussions (both during the learning activities in Greece and in the QFK Discussion Forum) and by the production of a written report which will function as a learning unit in the Projects section of the QFK Web.
The report should reflect your acquired understanding from the study abroad course reading, learning activities, discussions, and from your case-based reasoning. The topics of your learning unit should be based on a problem of interest within a "practice domain" of your choosing. Your chosen domain-situated problem should reflect your area of interest and/or experience (such as teaching multicultural curricula in elementary school, corporate training in the high technology industry, teaching criminology through distance learning, etc.).
Practice Domain Pages
Besides previously submitted Project pages, there are also lesson units in several educational practice domains were placed on the QFK Web (via the Practice Domains link) to be used as "models" for your reports and should be studied prior to leaving for the study abroad. These initial lesson units also function as background reading on learning, teaching, and the use of media in ancient Greece. For more reading that you should do to prepare for the QFK study abroad, follow the links and read the classical texts on the Things To Do page.
Note in these example domain pages (and in the completed student project pages), how parallels and contrasts between the ancient (Greek) and contemporary cultures are used to provide a platform for case-based reasoning by learners who use this part of the QFK Web.
Contents of Student Projects
Upon return from the study abroad in Greece, each "for-credit" participant will need to produce and submit their student projects in both print and as separate plain text files (for each Web page) on a floppy disk using the same format as provided in the example domains:
Producing Student Projects as Web Pages
For extra credit, instead of simply presenting text only (on printed page and as text files on floppy disk), we would like you to download sample Web pages from the Sample Pages link (you can find these by clicking on the QFK98 Projects link on the QFK (left) navigation frame and then scrolling down to the Sample Pages link). You can use the File menu of your browser to save each of the four sample files as HTML-coded text files onto a floppy disk.
When you are working offline, you can insert and edit your text in the pre-coded template files by loading those files into a text editor and replace the existing text with your original wording (while preserving the HTML codes in brackets which are used to format your text in a Web browser).
If you plan to use any images (only jpeg or gif formats), make sure that they are not larger than 440x330 so they fit within the right frame and are faster-loading. Don't forget to include the image filename within the IMG tag (which you can copy and/or move from the template file). The following example uses a jpeg pix called myfile.jpg with 440 as width and 330 for height and an alt attribute to indicate what the image is for those without image display):
IMG SRC="myfile.jpg" width=440 height=300 alt="Image of Greece"
Of course, under each image, you should also provide a brief (one-line) description of the image within the centered, bold text tags below it.
When you save the files, rename them so that each file is named by your first and last name initials. Thus, the original sample files (xx1.html - xx4.html) will be saved by changing the xx in each filename to your initials.
This "template" method of HTML production will produce formatted Web pages which not only make it easier to create the Web pages in HTML, but it will also make each project consistent in its format. When you are finished producing your pages, you can submit them (and any image files that you have indicated in the IMG tags) on 3.5" floppy disk(s) for uploading to the QFK Web site.
Learning unit reports act as a cognitive artifact that provides shared learning through the QFK Web site.
Updated as of May 10, 2006
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