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Ecampus Showcase Sites

The sites below have earned recognition for their innovative use of Ecampus. Some make extensive use of WebCT tools, like Discussions or Student Presentations, while others demonstrate creative design or incorporate multimedia into the educational experience. We hope they will inspire you in your endeavours to enhance teaching with technology.

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ENGLISH COMPOSITION 3: COMPOSITION, RHETORIC, AND LANGUAGE
Lecture 11, Winter 2005 - Karl Lisovsky, Writing Programs

Dr. Lisovsky requires his students to submit a semiotic analysis paper in the form of a webpage, which becomes part of the "Museum of Modern Mythology." To view this example use of the Student Presentations tool, click the icon called "Museum Stuff." He also uses the Discussions tool to facilitate "student-student work" and the Calendar to assign homework (this way he can make assignments after careful thought, rather than hurriedly assigning something at the end of class--check January-March 2005 for the calendar entries). Dr. Lisovsky conducts his classes in the CDH lab, which he feels is necessary to promote extensive use of the site: "NOT that I want any competition getting lab space!"

 

ITALIAN 1: ELEMENTARY ITALIAN (BEGINNING)
Lecture 3, Winter 2005 - Gianpiero Doebler, Italian

When you enter this site, you'll immediately notice the custom icons and color scheme that Mr. Doebler has chosen to evoke the mood of Italian culture. Like many of the best language-instruction sites, this one has links that help students explore the language: to Italian radio, video, and television websites, online dictionaries, and games. Other links provide easy access to workbook activities and answer keys. The Discussion Board provides a handy way of assigning daily homework, and the Calendar (check January-March 2005) reminds students of quizzes, exams, and holidays.

 

KOREAN 103, 106, 107: KOREAN FLAGSHIP PROGRAM
 2004-2005 - Namhee Lee, Asian Languages and Cultures

This course site is part of the UCLA Korean Flagship Program for Professional/Academic Korean. It combines materials for several courses taught throughout the 2004-2005 academic year. One of the most interesting features is the use of Korean characters, in tools such as the Image Database, Discussions, and Calendar. There are also icons and background images from Korean culture, consistent with the program's philosophy "that high proficiency in Korean can only be attained by becoming bicultural. Language is a part of culture, and it cannot be dissociated from other domains of the culture. Based on this principle, the program maximizes students' exposure to Korean culture, both modern and traditional."

 

LGBTS/WOMEN'S STUDIES M114: INTRODUCTION TO LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER STUDIES
Lecture 1, Fall 2004 - James Schultz, Germanic Languages / LGBTS

In addition to using custom icons to signal the theme of each lecture, this site makes extensive use of the Content Module tool to offer lecture-specific content. For each lecture topic, Professor Schultz composed an HTML webpage listing the required readings, associated images, and supplementary resources and links. By posting them as Content Pages within Content Modules instead of as single pages, he enabled students to use the Search tool to search all the Content Pages as well as Discussion Board postings. Click "Images" in the left-side "Course Menu" to view the Image Database, which contains numerous images annotated by the instructor and searchable by keyword.

The Discussion Board is disabled in this version of the site, but in the fall it was used to collect weekly critical analyses of the readings.

 

LINGUISTICS 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE
Lecture 1, Fall 2004 - Russell Schuh, Linguistics

Linguistics 1 is a large General Education class, with an enrollment of 350-400 students, so Professor Schuh strives for ways to keep the students engaged. He uses online web assignments as a "sort of lab, where the students can experiment with ideas from the course."  Created with the Quizzes/Surveys tool, these assignments are configured so that students can do each one as many times as they want, and only their highest score is counted.  The web assignments incorporate the same kinds of multimedia materials as the PowerPoint lecture presentations, and sometimes they include clips from videos shown in the course.  As Professor Schuh explains, "The web assignments parallel the paper assignments and are timed so that the students must complete each web assignment before the corresponding paper assignment is due.  The web assignments thus prepare the students to do the paper assignments, which are harder than the web assignments and are graded."

The due dates for the web assignments have been changed on this site, so that visitors can try them out.

 

MUSIC HISTORY 64: MOTOWN AND SOUL: AFRICAN AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC OF THE 1960s
Lecture 1, Spring 2005 - Robert Fink, Music History

This class uses extensive streaming media to bring music to the students. Click the "Link to Weekly Listening" to see and hear how the music is delivered online. Professor Fink also uses the website to distribute other multimedia resources to his class, such as the "Motown's Financial Roots and Organization" slides on the "Course Materials" page. Professor Fink writes, "this is actually a preliminary version of what I hope to do once the class itself is fully designed and 'field-tested,' as it were. I would like to get more 'interactive' content going, especially with respect to the analytical insights about the music that the course generates." We think he's doing a great job so far!

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Access to Ecampus Showcase Sites

These sites will be accessible to visitors at the CDH Open House on May 11, 2005, from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM, in Public Policy 1041. If you would like to view these sites at another time, please use the Guest Access Request Form (in the "reason for access" field, indicate that you are requesting access to a Showcase site). Ecampus staff will obtain the instructor's consent before granting guest access.