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Vol. 5. No. 1 — April 2001<\/h3>\n

Interview with an Online Instructor (Part 3)<\/h2>\n

Jim Duber<\/a>
\n duber dot com
\n <jim@duber.com<\/a>><\/h4>\n

JD: So it sounds like your students needed either to be fairly
\ntech-savvy to begin with, or by the end they were certainly
\ntech-savvy. Did they have a requirement of, for example, knowing how
\nto make a web page, or knowing how to scan a document, or knowing how
\nto use concordance software?<\/p>\n

MS: I was told when the course began, or before the course began,
\nthat all of the instructors were tech-savvy and would have the
\nability to create simple web pages, for example. This turned out not
\nto be exactly true. But it was primarily true, and most were capable
\nof doing not only basic web pages, but in some cases, some fairly
\nsophisticated web pages. In terms of the concordancer, none of them
\nhad had a lot of experience with that and I found that I had to, in
\nfact, write some supporting documents sort of midstream to put on the
\ncourse website to help them kind of wade through what a concordancer
\ndoes and what the output means and ways in which that could be used.
\nBut, I think it was the most popular part of the course because most
\nof them had heard about concordancing, or maybe had read an article
\nor talked to a colleague about it, but really hadn’t had hands-on
\nexperience. And, I think they were kind of both surprised and amazed
\nat the output that these databases can give for authentic language.<\/p>\n

JD: That’s great. You mentioned the course website–can you talk
\nabout that, especially issues that you faced in developing the
\ncourse?<\/p>\n

MS: We used the WebCT platform, which UC Berkeley sort of donated
\nfor the cause, or at least gave space to us to run the course for
\nfree, and this classware, or courseware, whatever you want to call
\nit, software integrates quiz, bulletin board, chat, and all kinds of
\nother web functions into one package, as well as the ability to keep
\ntrack, of not only quiz scores but also how often students are
\nlogging in, if they’re reading the bulletin board postings, how many
\ntimes they responded, and so forth. So it creates a nice integrated
\npackage so you don’t have to gather together little bits and pieces
\non your own to make your own web site. The other thing that was nice
\nabout it is it’s very flexible and so when I needed to add additional
\nmaterial, I could do so really quickly and easily as the table of contents
\nstructure in WebCT is flexible enough to allow for quick insertions
\nand reorganization really on the fly so all I would need to do is send
\na notice out to students that something had been added and they could
\ngo and look at new material there.<\/p>\n

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