467 Designing Online Courses in Dance

Thursday, April 2, 2009: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Tampa Convention Center: 22-23
NDA/National Dance Association
Presider: Joanne Lunt, EdD, Professor Emeritus, Southport, ME
Speakers: Gladys Keeton, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX; and Barbara Hernandez, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
This interactive session in online teaching: Dance Appreciation and World Dance. Examine the steps for developing, implementing, and teaching online courses. Included are basic elements needed to construct and start the online process: Textbooks, syllabus, references, links, power points, and tests. Implementation covers course administration, supervision, and Internet skills. Strengths and weaknesses addressed are copyright, grading, e-mails, updating, and an activity component. Teaching skills, class size, maintenance, and time requirements are discussed.