Paradigm Shift: Designing Teacher Websites

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Paradigm Shift
Designing Teacher
Websites

• Mara Alagic

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Paradigm Shift Designing
Teacher Websites

• Learners
• Teachers Website What goes online?
• Web pages
• Action

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Paradigm Shift Learners

• Student
• Learning is more personalized.
• It is the student who is accountable for mastery.
• Parent
• Teacher
• Staff

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Paradigm Shift Learners

• Student
• Parent
• Informed
• Able to ask questions
• Teacher
• Staff

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Paradigm Shift Learners

• Student
• Parent
• Teacher
• Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer
  probably should be.
• The role of the teacher shifts dramatically in an
  online environment Teacher is no longer primary
  source of information.
• Staff

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Paradigm Shift Learners

• Student
• Parent
• Teacher
• Staff

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Teacher Web SiteWhat Goes Online?

• Maps Syllabus
• Calendar
• Links to curriculum objectives
• Course expectations/Policies
• Academic requirements
• Tools
• Skills
• Ideas

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Teacher Web SiteWhat Goes Online?

• Maps
• Tools Curriculum Resources
• Textbook
• State/District curriculum
• Online texts and content
• Supplemental/Enrichment
• Skills
• Ideas

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Teacher Web SiteWhat Goes Online?

• Maps
• Tools
• Skills Activities
• Graphic Organizers
• Projects and Papers
• Experiments
• Multimedia Devices
• Adaptive learning ideas
• Ideas

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Teacher Web SiteWhat Goes Online?

• Maps
• Tools
• Skills
• Ideas Academic Content
• Notes from textbooks/class
• Study guides
• Discussion groups/Threads
• Assessment

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Static Dynamic Web Pages

• If a web page is static the content remains
  relevant regardless of time.
• E-texts of history of mathematics
• Pascals triangle
• A set of questions

• If a web page is dynamic, it requires frequent
  maintenance (some of which can be automated).
• Calendar, announcements
• Problem of the Week
• Problem of the Day
• Journal Topic for Today

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Passive versus Interactive Web Pages

• If a web page is passive the content offers
  information but it does not give an opportunity
  for interaction.
• Examples
• . . .

• If a web page is interactive, it requires an
  action from the user, either on-line (dynamic
  interactive) or off-line.
• Examples
• . . .

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Action Develop a Web Site to Support Your Course

• Identify set of documents that you regularly
  distribute in your classroom. Having these
  documents online may be your first step.
• Consider how your classroom is organized course
  materials, activities, assessment, . . .
• Design model based on the teachers
  organizational style is especially helpful to
  students.

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Action A Curriculum Management Model

• Putting your curriculum online is a great
  first step when designing a teacher web-site. It
  may be just a cut and paste job. Make a link!
  Or, give a credit.
• LONG TERM GOAL
• To link daily activities to specific curriculum
  objectives.

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