[Learning Record Online (LRO)]
[Service Learning Project]
[Group Presentations]
[Class Wiki Knowledgebase]
This course will utilize the Learning Record Online for all student assessment. The Learning Record is a portfolio system of assessment which takes into account more facets of your learning activity in this course than traditional grading systems typically accommodate. It is a major assignment for the course and will require ongoing data collection from you throughout the semester. Please see the LRO Main Information Site for complete details. A template for your LRO portfolio that you may use as a central index is available here. The template includes a list of grading criteria and a description of the five dimensions of learning for your reference.
Major deadlines for the LRO:
- Monday, 11 September: Part A completed
- Wednesday, 27 September: Sample observations submitted
- Wednesday, 18 October: Midterm LRO due (Parts B.1 and C.1 completed and Samples of Work submitted)
- Monday, 23 October: Midterm LRO moderation session in class
- Friday, 8 December: Final LRO due by 3:00p (Parts B.2 and C.2 completed and Samples of Work submitted)
The course contains an academic service-learning component and may count toward various UT-Austin departmental service-learning requirements. In order to broaden your experiences with IT in society, you will be working for ten (10) hours with a non-profit community organization, Austin Free-Net, at one of their community centers in east Austin. In addition to your observations for the LRO, you will create a multimedia project to document and reflect on your experiences. This is a collaborative group project, for which you will utilize the resources of the DIIA Multimedia Lab in GSB 2.130 for multimedia hardware, software, and instruction. You also have at your disposal the support of UT-Austin's Service Learning Center, to whom you should direct any general questions you might have about academic service learning, credit issues, and the like. The course schedule will reflect the most up-to-date deadlines and meetings concerning this project.
This is a complex project that will require a significant amount of your time and energy outside of class. Since you will need to coordinate schedules with the other members of your group, with the coordinators of the remote site, and with the consultants in the DIIA multimedia lab over the course of this semester, you need to understand from the start what you are getting into. For a complete run-down of the milestones and deadlines, please see the page describing this assignment in detail.
In order for you to pursue topics of particular interest to you and to develop your collaboration and communication skills and strategies, we will have a couple of group presentation dates during the semester. One will take place before the midterm, and one near the end of the semester. Particularly on the first one, your purpose is not merely to report on your research findings but to engage the entire class in the most effective way you can. To help you do this, you should expect a full-class workshop critique following the first presentation, and written feedback from the instructor on the second.
We will determine groups and subjects in class at the appropriate times.
Since there will be a great deal of reading in this course, and since much of it will contain unfamiliar terms and concepts, you will work weekly on a course wiki in order to build a knowledgebase for everyone in the course. Each of you will have different contributions to make, and collectively you should be able to cover a great many subjects in depth. Each week, you will contribute an entry to the wiki, following the format specified in the EntryTemplate there. You will complete one by the beginning of class Mondays; the next day, you will work on an already existing entry that someone else has created. As the semester goes on and the wiki grows larger, the nature of the editing work will change, and you will hear about that in class when the time comes.
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