Susan Silverman
New York Institute of Technology
EDLA 615 Summer 2005 & Fall 2005
Language Arts
and Technology
Online Graduate Course
The Extension Projects you are
about to see were created by graduate students at NYIT. These
students are working toward a Masters degree in
Instructional Technology.
The text book
we the summer course is:
Leu, D. J., & Leu, D. D., Coiro, J., Teaching with the Internet:
Lessons K-12: New Literacies for New Times, Fourth Edition.
Christopher Gordon Publishers, June 2004, ISBN: 1-929024-77-0
The text book
for the fall 2005 course is:
Karchmer, R, Mallette, M, Kara-Soteriou, J.,Leu, D. Innovative
Approaches to Literacy Education.
International Reading Association, June 2005, ISBN:
0-87207-555-9
To give you a better idea of how I organized my online graduate
course, here
is a screen capture taken from
Blackboard. I've also included
part of the
course syllabus.
The feedback
from my summer students was very positive, so I decided to
repeat this for my fall 2005 class. My only revision was
to include three novels with smaller groups. Students from
this class had a choice of:
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton
The Giver by
Lois Lowry
Summer 2005
Extension
Project
Due: August 15
Session Title
Literature Circles
Extension Project
Objectives
Creatively use
technology to support different learning
styles (Course Objective 3)
Teachers will use
technology to teach reading in the content
areas. (Course Objective 12)
Our mid term project
will be to complete an Extension Project for
your novel. Your project must be computer
generated. Use any software program
you would like. If I don't have the program
you will need to send it to me as a gif or
jpg. Your project may be showcased on the
collaborative project web site.
In order to
receive full credit for the mid term project
you must participate in ALL
threaded book discussions and lead at least
one online discussion about a chapter. No
partial credit will be given.
Online Discussions and
Extension Projects
Summer 2005
