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+ A Lesson Using First Principles of Instruction By: Annika Lewinson-Morgan ID#: 90206140

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A Lesson Using First Principles of

InstructionBy: Annika Lewinson-MorganID#: 90206140

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After attending this workshop, course production assistants (PAs) will

consistently produce paginated course materials containing functional hyperlinks.

Overall Programme Objective

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“The case of the corrupt URL”

By the end of this session, you will recognise the causes of most

corrupt URLs.

Session (Enabling) Objective

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1. Reflect on what you know about URLs

2. Discuss sample URLs

3. Analyse corrupt sample URLs

4. Practice assessing URLs

5. Integrate practice of assessing URLs in your usual workflow

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Lesson Outline

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+Merrill’s Activation Principle:

They take you to websites and resources on in the Internet.

They have a certain structure.

What else do you know?

Watch the following video.

What do you know about URLs?

“Learning is promoted when

learners activate prior knowledge or experience.”

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Merrill’s Demonstration Principle:

“Learning is promoted when

learners observe

a demonstration.”

(Click to play)

Courtesy of YouTube/ Mídia do dia

“Explaining Uniform Resource Locator”

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+Lesson plan After discussing the video demonstration, facilitator will guide discussion on valid URL samples on slide 8.

Note for example: URL syntax Pattern of hyphens, spaces, underscores, or pattern of codes (e.g. %20, %2B)

Query string following “?” at end of URL

If YouTube URL query has a specific number of characters?

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+ Inspect the structures of the following valid sample URLs: http://www.umich.edu/~ed626/define.html

http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/27/07879605/0787960527.pdf

http://www.dmeforpeace.org/sites/default/files/080713%20Applying%2BTheory%2Bof%2BChange%2BApproach.pdf

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20150730/hands-across-jamaica-righteousness-celebrates-20-years

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17163497

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YVOM3QR36s

http://bit.ly/lgmPKf8

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Next facilitator will guide discussion of common typos exemplified on URL samples repeated on slide 9.

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x http:/www.umich.edu/~ed626/define.html

x http://media.wiley.com/…/27/07879605/0787960527.pdf

x http://www.dmeforpeace.org/sites/default/files/080713%20Applying%2B-Theory%2Bof%2BChange%2BApproach.pdf

x http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20150730/hands-across-%20jamaica-righteousness-celebrates-20-years

x http://ww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17163497

x https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=9YVOM3QR36s

x http://bit.ly/lgmPKf.

Note common corruption of the same sample URLs:

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Note common corruption of the same sample URLs:x http:/www.umich.edu/~ed626/define.html

x http://media.wiley.com/…/27/07879605/0787960527.pdf

x http://www.dmeforpeace.org/sites/default/files/080713%20Applying%2B-Theory%2Bof%2BChange%2BApproach.pdf

x http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20150730/hands-across-%20jamaica-righteousness-celebrates-20-years

x http://ww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17163497

x https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=9YVOM3QR36s

x http://bit.ly/lgmPKf.

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Note common corruption of the same sample URLs:

x http://www.dmeforpeace.org/sites/default/files/080713%20Applying%2B-Theory%2Bof%2BChange%2BApproach.pdf

x http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20150730/hands-across-%20jamaica-righteousness-celebrates-20-years

Note that %20 is code for space

character

Note that this line break could be an invisible space character

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Merrill’s Application Principle:“Learning is promoted when learners apply

the new knowledge.”

Time to practice

!Be the sleuth!

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+Lesson plan

Participants will assess URLs and answer the following questions:

Does this URL look valid?

If not, what is wrong with it?

Can you correct it? Explain.

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file://User/My Documents/policy/governance/programme-and-course-design-handbook.pdf

http://www.youthdevelopmentindex.org/cms/cms-youth/_images/7150051245204522383408.pdf

http://www.unicef.org/adolescence/ cypguide/files/CS-Book2-Adults-Get-Ready.pdf

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Are these URLs corrupt?

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Valid. Contains underscore

Corrupt. On personal computer

Corrupt with space

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http://www.consumersinternational.org/media/306662/biosafety%20legislation%20in%20selected%20countries-%20a%20 comparative%20analysis.pdf

http://www.consumersinternational.org/media/306662/biosafety legislation in selected countries- a comparative analysis.pdf

http://www.consumersinternational.org/media/306662/bio- safety legislation in selected countries- a comparative analysis.pdf

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Which URL is valid?

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http://www.consumersinternational.org/media/306662/biosafety%20legislation%20in%20selected%20countries-%20a%20 comparative%20analysis.pdf

http://www.consumersinternational.org/media/306662/biosafety legislation in selected countries- a comparative analysis.pdf

http://www.consumersinternational.org/media/306662/bio- safety legislation in selected countries- a comparative analysis.pdf

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Which URL is valid?

Corrupt with hyphen

Not corrupt

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Valid. Spaces = %20

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“The case of the

corrupt URL”

“SOLVED!”

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+Integrate this assessment process into your usual workflow:

You have received a new course unit in Word format to paginate in InDesign.

You can choose to check the structure of all URLs in the text before or after importing the Word document into InDesign. 22

Merrill’s Integration Principle:“Learning is promoted when

learners integrate their new knowledge into their

everyday world.”

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Remember:

Make sure to test each questionable URL in browser first.

Make sure to test corrected URL before moving on.

A space at the end of

a line is invisible.

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+ References

Merrill, M.D. (n.d.). First Principles of Instruction. Hawaii: Brigham Young University.

Morrison, G. R., Ross, S. M., Kemp, J. E. (2011). Designing Effective Instruction. 6th Ed. City: John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved from  https://books.google.com.jm/books?id=ygIbaClN3KMC

Images from: Pixabay.com Flickr.com commons Wikimedia.com

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+ Advance Organizer

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The Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

DomainProtocol