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.
I think it would be a good idea to question them on music notes etc. when playing the guitar. Also, it would be cool to have them create a 30 sec video of them playing the guitar to show their progress.
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