Anderson final project
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The document outlines lessons to teach college students about navigating the processes involved in obtaining their degree, such as understanding paperwork from the registrar's office. It proposes using various web tools like podcasts, screen casts, and slideshares to create interactive lessons accessible through the registrar's website. The lessons would cover finding the registrar's office, navigating their website, filling out forms like the graduation application, reading degree progress reports, and keeping up to date via social media. The goal is to help reduce student stress by demystifying requirements and procedures.
Anderson final project
- 1. Anderson A Final Project My intended audience is a very special group of people. These individuals are the very reason that I work for Western Oregon University. This group consist of a divers group of individuals ranging from eighteen to sixty. They span multiple national backgrounds, covering all variety of color creed and religious beliefs. They come from many different country's not just the US. That right I'm Speaking of the every enduring collage student.
- 2. Unit of Learning 1 The thing that I want to teach these students is how to navigate the some times difficult and confusing processes involved in getting there degree. I'm not talking about there classes. As difficult as those can be we all enter collage with the understanding that we will have to work hard to complete our courses with good grades. No, I am talking about the the intricate and often hidden portion of there degree. How to understand the intricate paperwork involved with the registrar's office.
- 3. Unit of Learning 2 Those confusing course subs, the often forgotten application process, and lets not forget the infamous and daunting academic petition just to name a few things. I wish to help students under DegreeWorks Audits, how to read them and what it all means. My purpose in all of this is to help the confused or struggling student understand how to use the system to there advantage. Elevating some of there anxiety, and allowing them to concentrate more on there study's and less on stressing about the hoops that they might have to jump through.
- 4. Lesson One: The Introduction This lesson will focus on getting the students to understand where the registrar's office is and why they need to know. The simple fact is that most students do not have a clue where the registrar's office is or why they would even want to know until they need help. Quite often by time they get referred to our office they have been told to go talk to so many people that they just want us to fix there problems. Some times this is possible but most often we need the faculty to fill out paperwork so that we can fix the problem.
- 5. Lesson One: The Introduction Much of the problem comes from students telling each other that they took this course so they should be able to as well, not understanding that there catalog years are different. Now this is to much to handle all in one lesson so we will simply start out with a podcast that shows up on there portal. In this podcast we will give a description of why a student might want to check in with the registrar's office and how to find us.
- 6. Lesson One: The Introduction In this same podcast I would like to cover where the students can find the forms that they might need to fill out and the instructions on how to fill them out. I chose a Podcast for the first lesson because it is simple quick and can be easily set up and placed in a discreet place on a page that the student is already using without being overly intrusive.
- 7. Lesson Two: Site Navigation Navigating the web site. This screen cast should be set up on the registrar's main web page. You know that one that the Podcast sent all of the students to. That's right we want to give them a tutorial on how to get the most out of this site right from the start. If you already know everything then you can just ignore it, but this is the perfect place for the students to start.
- 8. Lesson Two: Site Navigation We will show them how to access the student clearing house link, so that they can order transcripts, contact information so that they can get in touch with the staff of the registrar's office with there questions. And of course where to find all those forms that they might need to fill out. But why a screen cast, well the simple fact is that with the screen cast we can walk them through the site showing them all the links on the screen and telling them what to look for.
- 9. Lesson Three: The Application That's right I'm talking about the application for graduation. This form is simple, but has a lot of confusion surrounding it. In this case we will use a Slide share. By linking our Application to a tutorial on how to fill it out and what each of the areas mean then students can learn what they need to include when they turn this form in. There are many students that do not understand what the anticipated graduation date means.
- 10. Lesson Three: The Application Instead of telling us that they will finish at the end of Fall term they say December, or even more common is that they think that December is Winter term. So the goal is to make this form less confusing for the student and to get all the supporting documents turned in at the same time as the application. Now why the Screen Cast? Well if we put this in to a screen cast the student can read the instructions at there leisure while they work on the form.
- 11. Lesson Four: Forms For this lesson we will use the Screen cast again. I know we have already used this but the simple fact is that it really is the best tool to use for instructing how to fill out forms and what there proper use is. This will actually be several different Screen Casts. One for each of the forms that we use in the registrar's office. In these screen casts the students will find how to petition an institutional policy, drop or add a course when online registration is not active, and many more useful aspects.
- 12. Lesson Five: DegreeWorks Here is the one that has to be done in a in person with student login. This can be done as a one on one interactive discussion or as a group presentation in a lecture style. To start we will present this in the lecture style format using modern smart class rooms during new student week. The goal is to get the student comfortable with reading their Audit screen that DegreeWorks creates for the student.
- 13. Lesson Five: DegreeWorks What each section is for who should be advising them in these sections and what the different symbols mean. In addition we will be teaching them what the different tools available to them are and how to use them. In this case the web based DegreeWorks tool is both the subject and the medium for teaching the student.
- 14. Final lesson: There is no Final Lesson That is the final lesson will be social media contact. All of the previous lessons will provide links to the contact information for registrar employee's including a twitter account that the employee's will post to on a regular basis letting any one that follows it know about important events. Like Last day to add a course, last day to drop.
- 15. Final lesson: There is no Final Lesson When to get your graduation regalia, where to sign up for graduation, and other important events in the students academic lives. Twitter works best for this simply because most students are using it. Well we might have to add tumbler as well bet the point is to use social media to keep the student informed and up to date.
- 16. THE END Arthur David Anderson Final Presentation CSE 627 Web 2.0 Tools