Group+Project

__Group Project Description__ With members of your collaboration group identify a content area and a complex real-world problem or task in this content area. Identify a student population to be taught this content. You may want to use a course that a member of your collaboration group analyzed for Part 1 of this course. Your project for the remainder of this course may be a new course or a revision of one of these courses in order to make it more problem-centered and more consistent with First Principles of Instruction.

__Target Audience__ Faculty and Instructors at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

__Problem__ Many Instructors and Faculty at the University of Hawaii do not know and are not familiar with how the features and functions of Laulima (a course management system adopted at UH campus) work. This lack of experience and knowledge can limit how the Instructors and Faculty are able to reach students of diverse backgrounds. In an attempt to create a progression of steps from the beginning (starting a course) to the end (completing a course), we have come up with four specific problems that our target audience may encounter in the process of teaching using Laulima.

Problem 4. How to upload grades in Laulima? (remove)
__Content Area__ From our point of view, we try to offer the faculty and instructors some simple instructions they can follow to improve their use of Laulima (a course management system adopted at UH campus) as a tool to interact with students and manage their courses.

Module 8: Group Project Prototype For this Prototype we addressed Problem 2 since we do not yet have a dummy site in Laulima to work with.

New Problems:
Problem 1. How to hold an engaging discussion using the various tools in Laulima? Problem 2.

Problem 3. How to create assignments using Forums vs Assignments?
Module 9:

Module 10:
 * Analyze the progression of problems or tasks to determine the component skills required to solve the problems or complete the tasks.
 * Design and develop prototype demonstrations for each of the component skills required to solve the problems or complete the tasks.
 * Design and develop prototype applications for each of the component skills required to solve the problems or complete the tasks.
 * Post your component skills strategies to your wiki for review by your collaboration group.
 * Use Table 19-1, section 3 "Design Strategies for Component Skills" to guide your work and critique.



Instructional Event Table for Laulima Training for Instructors New Thread Post with Attachment || Post introductory video || Sending a Private Message || Post a Private message ||
 * Session || Demonstrate || Apply ||
 * 1. Introductions || Forums
 * 2. Chat Room || Chat Room || Online Office Hours ||
 * 3. Private Messages || Discussion and Private Messages

Module 12:

In our next, and nearly final, phase, we'll be putting together descriptions of our tools, specifically Blogs and Blogger, along with methods of instructing in their use.