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    <p class="MsoPlainText"><span
        style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">Dear Colleagues,</span></p>
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    <p class="MsoPlainText"><span
        style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">Thank you again
        for all for your good projects and participation in my courses
        over the past two decades.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span></p>
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    <p class="MsoPlainText"><span
        style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">I am teaching
        INFO250 Design and Implementation of Instructional Strategies
        for Information Professionals for San Jose State University,
        School of Information (SJSU iSchool) again this Fall 2023
        semester. </span></p>
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    <p class="MsoPlainText"><span
        style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">I offer students
        the option to work with a 'client' to design a unit of
        instruction (workshop, tutorial, short course, etc.) for online
        or face-to-face.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>In the
        past students have decided on their own units of instruction for
        their instructional design projects, and many will still do
        that.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>But I also like to
        offer them the option of designing a unit of instruction for a
        non-profit organization, preferably a special, academic, school,
        or public library, or library organization, but other
        organizations or even for-profit small business sites.</span></p>
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    <p class="MsoPlainText"><span
        style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">Students need to
        make their choice of project topics by October 1.</span></p>
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    <p class="MsoPlainText"><span
        style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">Some of my
        students them have extensive instruction experience and some are
        complete beginners.</span></p>
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    <p class="MsoPlainText"><span
        style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">If your unit of
        instruction/instructional design project is chosen, my students
        will provide you with a completed instructional design plan, a
        screen cast introducing the instructional design plan, and at
        least one example instructional material.<span
          style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>You may choose to make use
        of their work in future as you choose.</span></p>
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    <p class="MsoPlainText"><span
        style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">If you would like
        to be on the list of projects for my students, please email me
        with the following information:</span></p>
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    <p class="MsoPlainText"><span
        style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">What I need from
        you (email me please at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated
          moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:diane.kovacs@sjsu.edu"
          moz-do-not-send="true">diane.kovacs@sjsu.edu</a>):</span></p>
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    <p class="MsoPlainText"><span
        style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">1. Contact
        person(s) with email and telephone numbers</span></p>
    <p class="MsoPlainText"><span
        style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">Contact person
        should be the 'client' that students are expected to interview
        and interact with cooperatively to develop an initial needs
        assessment and user identification and then work through our
        formal instructional design plan*. Then design and deliver an
        instructional design plan, introductory screencast, and example
        instructional material to the contact person.</span></p>
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    <p class="MsoPlainText"><span
        style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">2. Brief
        description of what kind and topic of instruction you're
        interested in working on.</span></p>
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        style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">3. A commitment by
        the contact person(s) to be available by email or other form of
        online messaging, during the Spring 2023 semester. Availability
        of a contact person is critical.</span></p>
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    <p class="MsoPlainText"><span
        style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">I will respond to
        you with additional questions and/or whether your project fits
        our scope in terms of time and expertise of students and verify
        you want to be on the list.</span></p>
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    <p class="MsoPlainText"><span
        style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Geneva",sans-serif;
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">Thank you!<br
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      </span></p>
    <p class="MsoPlainText"><span
        style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old
        Style",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">Diane
        K. Kovacs - Lecturer, SJSU iSchool: </span><a
        href="http://ischoolapps.sjsu.edu/facultypages/view.php?fac=kovacsd"
        moz-do-not-send="true"><span
          style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old
          Style",serif;mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier
          New"">http://ischoolapps.sjsu.edu/facultypages/view.php?fac=kovacsd</span></a><span
        style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old
        Style",serif;mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New""></span></p>
    <p class="MsoPlainText"><span
        style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old
        Style",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">Vitae:
        <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
          href="https://www.kovacs.com/dianevitae.html"
          moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.kovacs.com/dianevitae.html</a></span></p>
    <p class="MsoPlainText"><span
        style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old
        Style",serif; mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"">Email:
      </span><a href="mailto:diane.kovacs@sjsu.edu"
        moz-do-not-send="true"><span
          style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family: "Bookman Old
          Style",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier
          New"">diane.kovacs@sjsu.edu</span></a><span
        style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old
        Style",serif;mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New""></span></p>
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