1. 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

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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?

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

8. Handouts Local information Concepts Specific tools and resources
Procedures
Citations

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

10. 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

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

12. Quote, Paraphrase and then Cite your sources

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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

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

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

21. 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

22. Template for a Research Guide
Header
Sections
layout

23. 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

24. 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?