Week's Summary:
This week we are learning about the supporting materials and visualization for distance learning course and the implementation phase of the ADDIE framework. When reading this weeks chapter you learn how to develop a distance education course syllabus, discuss the advantages of using an interactive study guide, apply graphic design principles, develop word pictures, and develop visual mnemonics. There are three parts to the implementation phase: training the instructor, preparing the learners, and arranging the learning space. This week are also supposed to work on a new tab for our teacher websites we created in Ed 305. As well with the continued work on our module development assignment.
Item of Interest:
This week my item of interest is definitely the website assignment. Ever since I first made my website, I have always enjoyed adding new elements to it. I like how it allows me to be creative and design it how I want it to look. This isn't even really a large portion of our grade, but I just really enjoy developing my website. I think it is super cute and girly.
Problem or Concern:
Again this week I don't really have a problem or concern. Everything is falling into place and going pretty smoothly. I understand all of the materials we are learning, and enjoy it. This has been one of my favorite classes because everything is well explained and was not hard to figure out how to do all of the assignments. The semester is nearly over at this point!
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Course Outline Assignment- Engagement
Week's Summary
This week along with continued work on our course outline assignment rough drafts, we learned about how important it is to get the students engaged in the materials we are teaching. Keeping the students engaged is directly related to how they will learn the information we are presenting. The primary indicators of engagement in an online course (which most of us are creating for the course outline assignment) learning environment are the amount of interaction between students and the quality of that interaction. This goes on into relevance, which we also learned about in this module. What is relevance? Making an assignment relevant is when you make the material meaningful to the students. It is super important to inform the students why they are doing a certain activity. It's never good when the students just feel like your course consists of busy work they are doing for no reason. The effect of relevance is that students will be more interested in the material. The more likely they are to pay attention the more likely they are to retain the information being taught for the future. There are three forms of relevance: past, current, and future. Past relevance might strike the interest in one or two students, but probably not the whole group. This is when students want to know why a certain phenomenon occurred. Current relevance is material that will immediately affect the students. Learning specific information that will be used in the near future but probably forgotten. Future relevance is material that will affect students in the future. This is the highest rate of relevance because students are more likely to remember information they will need again at some point in the future. Relevance and engaging information go hand in hand. If the information is relevant the students will automatically be more engaged in learning.
Item of Interest
This week my item of interest is actually how to make my information I am teaching about the guitar relevant and engaging to the students. I am trying to come up with ways to make the assessments I am using be engaging to the students. Yes, the course I am teaching is important but I want to make the this class really fun and interesting. Learning how to play an instrument should be fun!
Problem or Concern
I don't really have a problem or concern this week. Other trying to make my course engaging and interesting for the students. I want them to enjoy learning how to play the guitar. I don't want it to seem like a hassle to do the assignments or assessments for the course. I'm not sure if that is really possible though.
This week along with continued work on our course outline assignment rough drafts, we learned about how important it is to get the students engaged in the materials we are teaching. Keeping the students engaged is directly related to how they will learn the information we are presenting. The primary indicators of engagement in an online course (which most of us are creating for the course outline assignment) learning environment are the amount of interaction between students and the quality of that interaction. This goes on into relevance, which we also learned about in this module. What is relevance? Making an assignment relevant is when you make the material meaningful to the students. It is super important to inform the students why they are doing a certain activity. It's never good when the students just feel like your course consists of busy work they are doing for no reason. The effect of relevance is that students will be more interested in the material. The more likely they are to pay attention the more likely they are to retain the information being taught for the future. There are three forms of relevance: past, current, and future. Past relevance might strike the interest in one or two students, but probably not the whole group. This is when students want to know why a certain phenomenon occurred. Current relevance is material that will immediately affect the students. Learning specific information that will be used in the near future but probably forgotten. Future relevance is material that will affect students in the future. This is the highest rate of relevance because students are more likely to remember information they will need again at some point in the future. Relevance and engaging information go hand in hand. If the information is relevant the students will automatically be more engaged in learning.
Item of Interest
This week my item of interest is actually how to make my information I am teaching about the guitar relevant and engaging to the students. I am trying to come up with ways to make the assessments I am using be engaging to the students. Yes, the course I am teaching is important but I want to make the this class really fun and interesting. Learning how to play an instrument should be fun!
Problem or Concern
I don't really have a problem or concern this week. Other trying to make my course engaging and interesting for the students. I want them to enjoy learning how to play the guitar. I don't want it to seem like a hassle to do the assignments or assessments for the course. I'm not sure if that is really possible though.
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Course Outline Assignment- Collaboration
Week's Summary
This week along with our continued work on the course outline assignment, we learned about collaboration. Collaboration is a great way to get the students involved and working together. We also learned about the importance of discussion boards. The problem with current discussion boards is that they are boring, require minimal interaction, and have timing problems. There are five steps you should follow when creating your discussion boards for the course outline assignment. Step 1 is you need to know the purpose of the discussion board you are creating. Discussion boards are made to create interaction between students. The question you have to ask yourself as the instructor is "How do you want them to interact?". There are several different types of discussion boards including: reflection, debate, and analysis. The second step is the literacy element. Meaning where are the students getting their information from to post about. This can include their textbooks, literacy sources, and non-literacy sources. All are beneficial to the students. Step 3 is the experiential element. Which involves opinionated discussions, make the discussions relevant, and they are preferred by adults. Step 4 is when the instructor determines the type of question they are asking the students to discuss. Either being reflective or one that requires more evidence. The final step 5 is when the instructor constructs the discussion question. The step should include: a purpose, question, example, instructions, and due dates. If you follow these steps when creating your discussion boards for your students they should turn out great! There are some best practices instructors should follow as well. The best practices ask these questions: "How many discussions should I have in my course?", "Should I interact inside my discussions?", and "How do I get students to take the discussion seriously?". You should ask yourself these questions when creating your discussion boards.
Item of Interest
I think discussion boards will be very beneficial in my course outline because the students can interact with each other. They can ask questions and give feedback on their progress with the guitar. As the instructor, I can read the discussions and comment on their discussions. So not only are they working with each other but also me. I plan on having them post a video of them playing their song periodically so I can hear the progress they have made, and they can get immediate feedback from me. Discussion boards will be very helpful I think.
Concern or Problem
One of my concerns with discussion boards was if the students would actually participate with them. The only way to insure they participate is to give the discussion boards some point value towards their final grade. The idea of the discussion boards was for them to help each other out, but I know students won't do anything that isn't required. I don't blame them I guess either.
This week along with our continued work on the course outline assignment, we learned about collaboration. Collaboration is a great way to get the students involved and working together. We also learned about the importance of discussion boards. The problem with current discussion boards is that they are boring, require minimal interaction, and have timing problems. There are five steps you should follow when creating your discussion boards for the course outline assignment. Step 1 is you need to know the purpose of the discussion board you are creating. Discussion boards are made to create interaction between students. The question you have to ask yourself as the instructor is "How do you want them to interact?". There are several different types of discussion boards including: reflection, debate, and analysis. The second step is the literacy element. Meaning where are the students getting their information from to post about. This can include their textbooks, literacy sources, and non-literacy sources. All are beneficial to the students. Step 3 is the experiential element. Which involves opinionated discussions, make the discussions relevant, and they are preferred by adults. Step 4 is when the instructor determines the type of question they are asking the students to discuss. Either being reflective or one that requires more evidence. The final step 5 is when the instructor constructs the discussion question. The step should include: a purpose, question, example, instructions, and due dates. If you follow these steps when creating your discussion boards for your students they should turn out great! There are some best practices instructors should follow as well. The best practices ask these questions: "How many discussions should I have in my course?", "Should I interact inside my discussions?", and "How do I get students to take the discussion seriously?". You should ask yourself these questions when creating your discussion boards.
Item of Interest
I think discussion boards will be very beneficial in my course outline because the students can interact with each other. They can ask questions and give feedback on their progress with the guitar. As the instructor, I can read the discussions and comment on their discussions. So not only are they working with each other but also me. I plan on having them post a video of them playing their song periodically so I can hear the progress they have made, and they can get immediate feedback from me. Discussion boards will be very helpful I think.
Concern or Problem
One of my concerns with discussion boards was if the students would actually participate with them. The only way to insure they participate is to give the discussion boards some point value towards their final grade. The idea of the discussion boards was for them to help each other out, but I know students won't do anything that isn't required. I don't blame them I guess either.
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Course Outline Assignment- Design
Week's Summary
This weeks focus was on the design portion of the ADDIE model. The design phase will help us with the development of our course outline assignment. During this phase curriculum developers design assessments, choose the course format, and create an instructional strategy. When designing assessments the instructor must consider the goals, learners, context, and assessments. The course format is the medium by which the course is presented to the learners. My course format for the course design assignment is a blended course. The instructional strategy is the collection of lectures, readings, discussions, projects, worksheets, assessments, activities to help the students learn the content. There are 5 major learning components of the overall instructional strategy: pre-instructional activities (use motivation), content presentation (concise content/examples), learner participation (practice and feedback), assessment (final assessments/practice assessments/attitude assessments), and follow-through activities (review/internalization). All of these points will be in our end product for the course outline assignment.
Item of Interest
I was worried about how I am going to be able to make my class on learning to play the guitar a blended course with 3 face-to-face meetings. I think I can accomplish this by using a video and a web conferencing section of the class. There is Blackboard Collaborate which could be very useful. I also will provide many example videos to show them what each chord should look like and sound like. There are also several apps that can be useful. Most everyone has a smartphone where they can download these apps. One app is called GuitarTuna. This specific app will help you tune your guitar. I think making the course blended is achievable.
Concern or Problem
One concern of mine is how I can assess the students progress other than the face to face meetings. I want to include weekly assessments to monitor the progress of each student. Also concerned about the standards for teaching this topic.
This weeks focus was on the design portion of the ADDIE model. The design phase will help us with the development of our course outline assignment. During this phase curriculum developers design assessments, choose the course format, and create an instructional strategy. When designing assessments the instructor must consider the goals, learners, context, and assessments. The course format is the medium by which the course is presented to the learners. My course format for the course design assignment is a blended course. The instructional strategy is the collection of lectures, readings, discussions, projects, worksheets, assessments, activities to help the students learn the content. There are 5 major learning components of the overall instructional strategy: pre-instructional activities (use motivation), content presentation (concise content/examples), learner participation (practice and feedback), assessment (final assessments/practice assessments/attitude assessments), and follow-through activities (review/internalization). All of these points will be in our end product for the course outline assignment.
Item of Interest
I was worried about how I am going to be able to make my class on learning to play the guitar a blended course with 3 face-to-face meetings. I think I can accomplish this by using a video and a web conferencing section of the class. There is Blackboard Collaborate which could be very useful. I also will provide many example videos to show them what each chord should look like and sound like. There are also several apps that can be useful. Most everyone has a smartphone where they can download these apps. One app is called GuitarTuna. This specific app will help you tune your guitar. I think making the course blended is achievable.
Concern or Problem
One concern of mine is how I can assess the students progress other than the face to face meetings. I want to include weekly assessments to monitor the progress of each student. Also concerned about the standards for teaching this topic.
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Course Outline Assignment - Analysis
Week's Summary
This week we were assigned to start creating our Course Outline that we will develop throughout the Ed 308 course. This weeks focus was on the analysis process. We had to choose a topic we would want to cover, determine how long the course will last, and whether or not the course was blended, hybrid, or online.
Item of Interest
The course I am designing is an introduction course in which I am teaching students how to play the guitar. There are no prerequisites for this course. Any level of undergraduate student can take it. I thought a good way to get information about the students prior guitar knowledge was for them to take this survey I made for them (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1CVfEP-ykhrNHhgWnG8atu-AriR--jpMMQTKT1bdYDqg/viewform). The questions asked will help me understand why the students chose to take this course. It will also help me decide which chords need to be taught first in order for the students to be able to play the song they chose.
Problem or Concern
My concern right now is about my topic. I don't know if this is something that can be taught in an online course. Right now I am currently teaching myself how to play the guitar by using the internet so I though this topic would be fun and interesting. I just need some opinions on whether or not you think this is a good enough topic I can make a course outline for the Ed 308 assignment. If you think it is a good topic why? or why not?
This week we were assigned to start creating our Course Outline that we will develop throughout the Ed 308 course. This weeks focus was on the analysis process. We had to choose a topic we would want to cover, determine how long the course will last, and whether or not the course was blended, hybrid, or online.
Item of Interest
The course I am designing is an introduction course in which I am teaching students how to play the guitar. There are no prerequisites for this course. Any level of undergraduate student can take it. I thought a good way to get information about the students prior guitar knowledge was for them to take this survey I made for them (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1CVfEP-ykhrNHhgWnG8atu-AriR--jpMMQTKT1bdYDqg/viewform). The questions asked will help me understand why the students chose to take this course. It will also help me decide which chords need to be taught first in order for the students to be able to play the song they chose.
Problem or Concern
My concern right now is about my topic. I don't know if this is something that can be taught in an online course. Right now I am currently teaching myself how to play the guitar by using the internet so I though this topic would be fun and interesting. I just need some opinions on whether or not you think this is a good enough topic I can make a course outline for the Ed 308 assignment. If you think it is a good topic why? or why not?
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