Root, 940-484-2265, aroot@utdallas.edu, office hours by appointment. GR2.240
(administrative assistant's office)--her name is Debbie Buckner and her phone is 972-883-
2057.

game, science, and culture of chess. Students write their first paper on how cultural
differences influenced the level of female participation in chess through the ages.
Students assess research and choose funding opportunities for chess in education. Each
student's final paper is a research-based proposal for integrating chess into a community
institution.

Course texts are on reserve at the UT-Dallas library. Required and suggested course texts
are available for sale at the UTD bookstore, Off Campus books, and through online book
retailers. Exception: Tim Redman's book is only available from:
Off Campus Books
561 W. Campbell Road, #201
Richardson, TX 75080
972-907-8398

Redman. Chess Program at the University of Texas at Dallas. 230 pages. ISBN10: 0-
9786742-0-0
ISBN13: 978-0-9786742-0-5

Each Unit takes about two weeks if the students take ED 5345 on the 16-week
schedule. Each unit takes about one week if the students take ED 5345 on the 8-week
schedule. You must consult the Course Calendar, a separate document from the syllabus,
for the due dates for this course.

There are no exams in the course. Since this course is online, the students read my
"lecture" for the Unit. Students also have reading assignments each week, and must
summarize and debate those readings in online group threaded discussions. Some
discussions are weighted differently for ED 4359 and ED 5345, but those distinctions are
listed below within the Units and also posted on the Discussion Board. All assignments
must be completed by Monday midnight at the end of the Unit.

For all Discussion Board postings, consider the implications of the readings and
the Discussion Board prompt in terms of your proposed chess program for an institution.
When posting on the Discussion Board about the week's readings, show knowledge of
those readings by making summary-style statements and quotes about the readings. For
example, "David Shenk described chess and its role in the Muslim Renaissance. Chess
looked different in those days from what we play today, but there were also similarities."
Support those statements with quotes or paraphrased sentence(s), followed by the page
number or URL of those sentences. "For example, on page 31 Shenk shows a diagram of
Islamic Chess, where the board (unlike today's chess board) doesn't have checkered
squares." Then give a reaction to the reading, or its implication for chess at your
institution. "Members of my institution need to learn that Islam shares history with
western culture. By showing that the western and Islamic peoples both play chess, and
have for centuries, I hope to promote greater cultural understanding in this time of war in
the Middle East. One step toward that understanding will be to teach them that chess was
and is a part of Islamic culture, and give examples such as this chess diagram on page 31
from Shenk's book."

By participating fully in each Discussion Board question, you will be, in effect,
writing parts of your paper #1. You will be able to re-use postings you've done from the
Discussion Board in your paper, and quote from others' Discussion Board postings in
your paper. For each unit, one through eight listed below, students read my "lecture" for
the unit. Log into the UT TeleCampus www.telecampus.utsystem.edu. Once in the
BlackBoard platform course, click on "Outline" from the left menu. Within Outline,
select the Unit whose lecture you wish to read. Within the Unit, use the "Go To" and
arrow buttons to read every page in the Unit.

I. Discussion Board A: Tell where you will introduce or further develop chess in an
institution in your community and describe your role in the chess program's
implementation (40 points).
II. Update your TIS (TeleCampus Information System) to reflect a UTD email address
(10 points).
III. Send me an email from your UTD email account stating your chess level: absolute
beginner; beginner with knowledge of the rules of chess; intermediate player with several
chess games under your belt; or tournament chess player. (10 points).
IV. Discussion Board B: Choose the one best chess book, Web site, or piece of chess
software for your proposed community chess program (40 points).

About.com's chess pages. Read Tom Brownscombe's essay "Chess Resources for
Classroom Teachers" in the Redman book. Read Shenk's Appendix I: The Rules of Chess
if you are still shaky about basic chess rules.