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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span
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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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mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span
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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<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
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Style",serif;mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New""></span></p>
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