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Description:
This course will guide learners through a quality televised workshop from the Annenberg Foundation, with an online reflective component concerning educational issues. Artifacts & Fiction is a video-based professional development workshop designed to help new and experienced teachers teach American literature in its historical and cultural context. The workshop is geared primarily to high school teachers, although middle school teachers might find they can adapt the approach to their classrooms. In addition to the televised workshops, the course also includes a reflective online component in which teachers will discuss relevant topics concerning educational theory and practice.

Pre-requisites:
Participants need to have regular access to the Internet. Basic computer and Internet skills are helpful.

Skill Level:
Some Computer Experience

Type of course:
Online

Learning Outcomes:
Participants will:

• Understand how to find and incorporate artifacts in a language arts curriculum.
• Participate in a reflective online component using our Blackboard online course area.
• Create and implement a lesson plan utilizing these new techniques and skills.

Credit:
1 hour USOE credit
1 semester hour SUU credit

Points:
16 licensure points

Assignment:

1. Initial Orientation – Students are required to complete an online orientation for the UEN-TV Workshops
2. Televised Workshops – The workshops air on KULC/Channel 9, weekly on Saturdays for 8 sessions of 60 minutes each.
3. Online participation –The online segment of the course involves two primary assignments:
• Using Blackboard students will respond to questions related to that week’s workshop. For about 30 minutes online a week, students read workshop materials, share ideas, and post responses to the weekly assignments from the televised workshop.
• In addition to the weekly assignments from the televised workshops, participants will also be involved in an online community of learners. Using Blackboard, students from all of the different televised courses will be required to post their opinions to various issues related to educational theory and practice.
4. Final Project- A final project is necessary for everyone seeking USOE or university credit.
• For the final project, participants must create a presentation based on an individual classroom project that demonstrates one concrete way in which they have implemented workshop concepts and strategies in the classroom. Participants should create a multimedia presentation (power point, digital photos, digital video, etc.) that effectively illustrates the classroom activity. If not currently a classroom teacher, the participant may modify the project as appropriate. For example, a parent may work with his or her own children or with a small group of students in an informal learning setting. This assignment will be submitted through Blackboard online learning area as an attachment.
• Additionally, students should submit a one page reflection about their experience in the workshop and how they plan to implement new techniques and strategies in their own classrooms. This should also be submitted as an attachment through Blackboard.