Friends and Colleagues, I thought you might want to take advantage of three new courses that the Marlboro College Graduate Center (VT) will be offering in its upcoming trimester beginning May 2. MSIT606 Open Source Content Management Systems Meets on the following Saturdays from 8:30 11:30am: May 3, 17, 31; June 14, 28; July 12; August 2 ($1,890 for 3 graduate credits, or $450 to audit) The key to a successful website in 2008 is dynamic content. One of the best tools to enable users to easily update their own site is the Content Management System. In the past, these tools were proprietary and expensive but today they are available for free. In this 14-week course, you will learn how to leverage the power of open source content management systems as well as how to create an empowered and engaged online community. · Hands-on section (using Joomla!) gives training in all of the techniques you will need. · Discussions will focus on the anthropology of successful online communities. · Classes meet every other weekend to make it easier for working professionals like you. There is also an online-only option. · Take it for graduate-level credit or audit it just to get the information. · HTML experience required; CSS experience a plus. MAT615 Facilitating Online Collaborative Learning Meets on the following Saturdays from 8:30 11:30am: May 3, 17, 31; June 14, 28; July 12; August 2 (The first and the last class meet optionally f2f; the others are all conducted online) ($1,590 for 3 graduate credits, or $450 to audit) This course explores the learner-centered teaching strategy of collaboration in the online and blended classroom. Teaching and learning online in particular, lends itself to learner-centered and learner-focused pedagogy, and collaborative activity is the essential component of this approach. Course content will include the topics of learning communities and collaboration, collaborative learning techniques, cooperative, small group, and team-based learning, and collaborative assessment. Specifically, students will have opportunities to explore some collaborative software tools, to implement a variety of collaborative learning techniques, to collaboratively assess learning activities, and to create collaborative learning communities. It is assumed that students will have a solid grasp of instructional theory and instructional design, and are conversant in constructivist forms of instruction. MAT616 Teaching and Learning in Virtual Worlds Meets online between May 2 and August 9 ($1,590 for 3 graduate credits, or $450 to audit) "Teaching and Learning in Virtual Worlds" is a new course at the Grad Center in which participants will explore a variety of 2D and 3D virtual worlds including those designed for children. You will examine research and theory about games and simulations and their pedagogical implications, consider the social, interpersonal, cultural, instructional, technical implications of virtual worlds, and draw your own conclusions about the potential for using virtual worlds within your teaching situation. For more information and to register on a Continuing Education basis, visit www.gradcenter.marlboro.edu/academics/continuing_ed.html <http://www.gradcenter.marlboro.edu/academics/continuing_ed.html > or call Joe Heslin at 888-258-5665. Elaine -- Elaine Garofoli MAT Program Director Marlboro College Graduate Center 28 Vernon Street, Suite 120 Brattleboro, VT 05301 Phone: 413.256.1744 Yahoo messenger: mcgcelaine1 AIM: uulainey SKYPE: egarofoli egarofoli at gradcenter.marlboro.edu "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." Frank Zappa -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20080407/640ebaac/attachment-0006.html