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06.1 Navigation Marker I: Course Project Report

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This experience takes approximately 8 hours to complete, plus 2 hours for the threaded discussion activity that follows.

You have already been working to address the problem or need identified in your Course Project Plan. However, having a solution to this problem does not guarantee that it will become a reality. Follow-through is required. Therefore, several Project Navigation points have been established to inform and help you complete the implementation of your Project and its Evaluation on time.

Earlier, you selected a topic and problem as the basis of a lesson--or a short series of lessons--to be designed and taught to learners of your choice. If you do not already have a classroom teacher to work with, you MUST recruit one now. The lesson you and this teacher create must engage the students in Internet information literacy in a meaningful way. Incorporate the constructive critiques of your Small Group Discussion and your personal Debriefing in your lesson planning.

For example, your focus may be too general and need to be 'tightened up.' (A 'tightened' example :"How can seventh graders become more frequent users of the Illinois Interlibrary Loan Online System?")

Learning to be Internet information fluent can be a complicated process. Address only one or two aspects of this concept. As you progress through the course, you will become more familiar with the complexities of the concept. As a rule of thumb, choose those concepts which appeal most to you.

To move forward you will need to use the Internet or specific digital database(s) to provide the rich content, your imagination to integrate the content into tasks for learning, and have fun doing it (if you don't enjoy designing and delivering your Project, your students will probably not derive much from it either).

1. Description of learner characteristics (as stated in your initial Project Plan )
2. Your Project Problem Statement
3. At least one lesson goal
4. Multiple lesson objectives tied to learning standards (e.g. NETS) for content and Internet information literacy
5. Extensive descriptions of all learning activities planned thus far (Learning methods, learning activities and strategies)
6. A materials list
7. Beginning bibliography (using one of the approved citation styles listed )
8. An assessment device, if ready

The major written piece of the course is the Project Report. It contains all the information another educator needs to implement your Project. Refer to the table below for components of the Project Report. The Evaluation Report, by contrast, is action research-oriented, using your Project as its focus. The goal of action research is to help facilitate the improvement of the project you develop.

At this time, add the following items (highlighted) to your existing Project Plan. If your project has changed in terms of any the information items listed, update your information in this report.

Item	Project Report Due at this time	Evaluation Report Due at the end of the course
Basic Information	Name of Project Partners -- Yourself, the teacher or teachers and any fellow librarians from your district with whom you may have decided to work. School Affiliation -- The school and district for which you work. Contact Information -- How we may reach you.	Include all the Basic Information from the Project Report
Abstract	Three to five sentences describing the essence of the Project you wish to pursue and a thumbnail sketch of the findings or results anticipated.	Include the Abstract from the Project Report (You will add the actual findings at the end of the course--see Findings, below.)
Purpose or Background	Update the information provided in your Project Plan, as needed. Two or more paragraphs describing the recent history which helps the reader understand the context for your proposal. (For example, what motivates this study? What is the need observed in students? What strategies has the teacher attempted recently and how well were these working?) It helps to write a short description of the characteristics of the selected students or audience. Include here the Problem Statement you created earlier (see course activity 2.1) Include here the lesson goal(s) and objectives tied to national, state and local standards (complete descriptions).	Include a short description of the characteristics of the selected students or audience. (You will add a description of the the actual organizational elements (time, space, resources, groupings) that were attempted and how well they worked at the end of the course)
Research Theoretical Background	This is an optional but highly recommended section. It is three or more paragraphs describing the support in professional readings for the plan of action you are undertaking. (You began to develop this section during the course under the heading 2.2 Readings and subsequent Internet searches.)	In your discussion of findings, the best approach is to analyze your findings in light of relevant research. What do your findings add to existing knowledge on the topic?
The Study The Plan	This is one of the lengthier sections, consisting of six or more paragraphs describing the intervention, plan of action, or instructional design of your Project. It is important to include information about the timeframe required, materials needed and sufficient description of your strategies that the reader understands your work. You will develop this section during the course under the heading of 6.1 Project Report 1 and update it as necessary in 9.1 Project Report 2.	Describe any variations to your plan in 12.1 Evaluation Report.
Assessment	For this section, outline your anticipated assessment approach: the knowledge, skills and/or dispositions (appropriate for your Project) that you intend to evaluate and how you will measure them. This includes the area(s) of impact you intend to assess as well as the assessment instruments or tools you will use. Further, it is important to include the frequency of assessment and your description of the target group of students. Detailed descriptions will be required for Project Report II (Week 9).	Describe what was assessed and the process that was used in 12.1 Evaluation Report
Findings		The section is also known as data-display. This is the section where you display your results in graphic form (tables, charts, figures, diagrams) and add several paragraphs of narrative describing the results to the reader. (You will develop this section during Weeks 11 and 12, based on observations when you teach the lesson with your project partner.)
Implications		In this section you describe the meaning you place on the results. Interpret the results with respect to the original purpose and in light of the background you shared. (You will develop this section during Week 12 under the heading of 12.1 Evaluation Report.)
References	This is an annotated list of related references (Internet and print sources) cited in APA or another commonly accepted form. (You are developing this section by completing activities 5.2 Citations and 8.3 Citations.)

All attached documents must be saved in Rich Text Format (.rtf).
If graphics, audio, or video are included, those files must also be attached along with the lesson plan.

There are 8 hours provided in this activity, 7 hours in Exploration 2 (Evaluation), and 5 hours in Exploration 3 (Integration) dedicated to writing up your Project. Pace yourself accordingly. Plan to teach the lesson sometime during the last weeks of this course, if possible. All the material you create goes in a Project Evaluation Report. There are 7 additional hours during Week 12 to incorporate observations from your Project, and the resulting lessons learned, in the Evaluation Report that continues to develop throughout the course. We have provided examples of complete lesson plans designed for the Internet by educators just like you. These are included only as a means to guide the format of your own unique work. Also note that they may contain more developed information than what is required of your project at this point (e.g., assessment is a focus of the next unit of the course, so you will probably describe briefly your intentions for assessment at this point.) On the 06.2 Forum, post your responses to the following:

• Copy and paste your Problem Statement -- the framework and real-world application toward which your Project is aimed;
• Provide an outline of your lesson plan -- briefly describe your intentions for each of the 8 lesson plan components, above.

You may attach a word processed document for this activity, saved in MSWord or Rich Text Format (.rtf). Refine it as the course continues and attach updated versions during Explorations 2 and 3 of the project. By saving in .rtf, you won't have to retype or risk conversion problems during copy and paste.