I’m having a difficult time coming up with a project that I feel will be adequate for this course, while balancing the amount of technology that is appropriate for the content and learner enrolled in the program that I teach.
I’m toying with an idea that will institute technology in multiple phases. Phase one will begin with a blended course that employs live and online (synchronous and asynchronous) formats. The major focus of this phase will be to improve student engagement and increase opportunities to conduct formative assessment activities to improve instructor understanding of student progress and learning of the topic. Two social networking tools will be employed at this stage. Ideally, phase two will employ a wiki will in place of WebCT as a way of delivering the asynchronous portion of the class. While I would love to begin introducing the wiki during phase one of this project, I believe that students will have enough difficulty learning the topic and including the social networking tools. So for phase one of the project, Twitter and blogging will be employed to further develop formative assessment.
Twitter will be utilized each week. Similar to the muddiest point or the one minute paper, students will quickly post thoughts throughout the week following the class. Each post will be required to focus on one of three areas: 1) What was the most interesting topic covered this week?, 2) What do you find to be most confusing?, or 3) What question do you have about this week's topic?
A blog will be utilized every other week during the semester. Beginning week two and continuing until the end of the semester, students will post reflections to the class. Each reflection will require students to focus on their learning.
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I believe you have an outstanding project. Stop doubting yourself and expect your students to do great things.
ReplyDeleteI really like the 3-2-1 idea. I think the blog looks clean and simple. The course content seems very organized. My only suggestion would be to use bold type in all headings, not just in some of the posts. It just makes it more asthetically pleasing. Overall, well done!
ReplyDeleteCraig,
ReplyDeleteGreat project! Right off the bat in looking at it, I was drawn to the good organization. You listed the sub-sections at the top and the project flows from there…easy to follow.
Also, I REALLY like the “3-2-1” assignment on the blog. Did you make that up…the 3-2-1? It is very simple and clever and gives the students an easy way to remember how you want them to make posts. That is great! Then, even better, your fore-thinking was excellent to put a 3-2-1 link so you students can actually see a specific example of what you would want them to write. Again, I just think this is great and I will steal this from you in my own teaching!
Question: On your group wiki, I noticed that you have your Blog Rubric and your Wiki Rubric embedded into your Word document. But, on your actual project (on your blog), you only mention that the rubrics will be “delivered to the students.” Any reason that you decided not to include the actual rubrics within your actual project?
Great work!
-Aaron Huffman