Planning Curriculum Materials for Reuse and Recycling The 50 Minute Instructor: Planning to Teach Saving Time: Planning Curriculum Materials for Reuse and Recycling Leslie Murtha and Triveni Kuchi Rutgers University Libraries April 25, 2003

Why Reuse or Recycle? To increase efficiency To increase effectiveness Save time Save effort To increase effectiveness Tried and true strategies Aide-memoir

From Traditional to Digital Questionnaires Slide presentations Handouts and pathfinders Tests and exercises Textbooks and workbooks Online forms PowerPoint PDF and HTML guides Online quizzes and exercises Tutorials

SCORM Sharable Content Object Reference Model A new metadata standard for describing and cataloguing instructional materials Content Aggregation Model packaging and organizing instructional materials to facilitate reuse and sharing

Strategies for Recycling Reusing Content Entire documents Forms Handouts Presentations Web pages Bits and pieces Selected text Selected slides Illustrations Citations Code Reusing Structure Creating templates For handouts For presentations For Web pages For exercises and tests For lesson plans

Things to Consider What information do you collect? What classes do you teach frequently? What topics do you cover in many different classes? What resources do you teach frequently? What similar tasks do students need to accomplish?

Reusing Content Forms Class requests print online Confirmation and additional information Standardized assessment and evaluation tools Follow-up questionnaires

Handouts Local information Concepts Specific tools and resources Procedures Citations

Presentations Whole presentation Selected slides Can reuse as is in different classes

Boolean in Google Use slide as is All these options available to improve your search! Briefly, lets go over what these options are… In today’s example we will use only some of these techniques to illustrate our point. For more in-depth coverage of these techniques sign up for the Power Search the Web- II class. Use slide as is

Presentations Whole presentation Selected slides Can reuse as is in different classes Or with updates (but no change in structure)

Quote, Paraphrase and then Cite your sources

Quote, Paraphrase and then Cite your sources You don’t want this kind of publicity NOW or when you become the prime minister!

Presentations Whole presentation Selected slides Can reuse as is in different classes Or with updates (but no change in structure) Or with structural updates within the unit

Is it a Scholarly Journal or a Popular one? Scholarly/Research Purpose Audience Coverage Publisher Writers Characteristics Examples To communicate research ideas Other Scholars, researchers, students Narrow/specific subjects Professional, academic associations colleges, universities and commercial publishers Scholars, Researchers, Experts Assumes general background information or knowledge; discipline specific jargon; peer review/refereed; bibliographies and references present; detailed procedures and processes American Journal of Sociology; British Journal of Sociology…. Before

Is it a Scholarly Journal or a Popular one? Popular/Magazine To inform and entertain the reader Purpose Audience Coverage Publisher Writers Characteristics Examples General Public Cross-disciplinary, Broad variety of topics Commercial Journalists, publishing employees, reporters and researchers Little technical language or jargon; Few or no references cited; no bibliographies; general summaries of background information Time; Newsweek,….. Before

Is it a Scholarly Journal or a Popular one? Scholarly/Research Popular/Magazine Purpose Audience Coverage Publisher Writers Characteristics Examples To communicate research ideas To inform and entertain the reader Other Scholars, researchers, students General Public Narrow/specific subjects Cross-disciplinary, Broad variety of topics Professional, academic associations colleges, universities and commercial publishers Commercial Scholars, Researchers, Experts Journalists, publishing employees, reporters and researchers Assumes general background information or knowledge; discipline specific jargon; peer review/refereed; bibliographies and references present; detailed procedures and processes Little technical language or jargon; Few or no references cited; no bibliographies; general summaries of background information American Journal of Sociology; British Journal of Sociology…. Time; Newsweek,….. Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory & Academic Search Premier list Peer Reviewed/Refereed Journals in Publication details

Presentations Whole presentation Selected slides Web pages Can reuse as is in different classes Or with updates (but no change in structure) Or with structural updates within the unit Web pages Elements from a Web page Ice-breakers, examples, and props

Asynchronous Instruction Workbooks and tutorials Self-guided tours Video and broadcast

Reusing Structure Creating Templates For handouts For presentations For Web pages For exercises For lesson plans

Planning a Template What things need to be covered for this type of a class What other classes would you be able to use this What’s similar and what’s different about them What’s the best sequence of items

Template for a Research Guide Header Sections layout

Templates for Web pages Layout Researching African American History: Basic Resources Latin American and Latino History: Basic Resources Sections Who Lives in America? Using the Census to Measure Poverty in the U.S

Exercise Brainstorm on the following topics: What concept handouts could you develop to use for multiple courses? What instructional uses can you think of for templates? What components of your lesson plans could be applied to other classes? What kinds of Web documents could you develop for multiple classes? What methods would you use to organize your curriculum materials for reuse?