Online Grade Form Submission: 4.10.11

Effective immediately, the University is recommending at all course participants utilize the online Submit Grade Form option on the University website upon completion of the course. Utilizing this option will expedite grade processing.

If you registered for the course prior to mid-April 2011, you will still have the option of submitting the hard-copy triplicate grade form that was included in your course materials packet.

See the Course Completion instructions on the course website for details.

http://www.cotwcourses.net/tec908/support/completion.htm

Primary Course Email Address Changed: 1.17.11

Effective immediately, I am changing my primary course email address to

bobjost@gmail.com

Why? My previous email address(es) have been publicly visible on the web for several years and have been increasingly and relentlessly targeted by spammers (over 18,000 junk email messages in 2010!).

I have been testing various filtering alternatives for the past several months and have found that Gmail currently offers the most robust spam filters which will (hopefully...) identify and eliminate most of that junk email.

This change should be not cause any difficulties for you, the course participant. I will continue to monitor and receive email sent to my previously used address but will now respond from my gmail address.

Please adjust your address book entries to my new gmail address at your earliest convenience. Bob

Course Website Update: 1.7.11

The TEC 908 course website has been updated again. All links have been checked and are current as of January 7, 2011.

The TEC 908 course is currently being reviewed by the FPU/CPD Program Council. You are welcome to take a look at the course review documentation if you would find that of interest.

TEC 908 Course Review Documentation

Course Website Update: 1.9.10

As you may have noticed, the TEC 908 course website has been updated. I have moved the course content to an updated online course template which should work well across all current web browser platforms and is even compatible with many current mobile platforms like the iPhone.

The content of the World Wide Web module and the options for the Webpage Design modules remains virtually the same although the content of some sections has been updated with minor revisions.

All of the course links have been validated. Dead links have been removed and/or replaced with similar web resources. New web resources have been added to several of the World Wide Web exploration pages.

The content of the Online Communications Module has been significantly revised. The new content brings the course into alignment with the EdTechProfile standards. A new Email Skills Checklist will be used as a self-assessment tool prior to and after completion of the Online Communications Module.

A new Internet Skills Checklist will also be used as a self-assessment tool prior to and after completion of the World Wide Web and Webpage Design Modules.

Course participants who started the course prior to the January 2010 revision, are encouraged to but not required to use these two new self-assessment tools.

Course participants who started the course prior to the January 2010 revision are encouraged to use the updated course website but can, if they wish, continue use the earlier version of the website which has been archived and will remain accessible on one of the course mirror websites at:

http://www.sps3000.net/tec908

Older versions of the course logbook printed prior to January 2010 should work just fine although there will be some minor differences. Course participants can adjust the older logbooks as necessary. Updated versions of the course logbook are available for download in the Course Support Documents section on the updated course website.

Please let me know if you notice any broken links, typos, are confusing navigation problems and I will fix those as soon as possible.

I appreciate your flexibility with this update process. Bob