EDUC3325 - Week Two Reflections
Phew,
We've made it over week two - the "hump" week. I think we finally have "who's who" in our class figured out - after a series of last minute additions and withdrawls. It looks like we'll have 14 GREAT students as members of the fall 2006 EDUC3325 class.
This week was definitely one of getting all the course "technical issues" - out of the way. Everyone is now active on the course discussion forum, has signed up to moderate one of the weekly discussions and knows where our summary wiki is located. Almost everyone has a brief bio and picture posted to their Blackboard Student Home Page. And, we're all connected by email - yahoo!!
One more item to go - our student weblogs. The "gang" is currently having a "peak" at Dr. Debra Hoven's student blogs (http://lifentheuniverse.blogspot.com/).
With all the "techy" stuff behind us - we began focusing on how we can construct Internet-based lessson plans. On Monday night - we reviewed the Alberta Information Communication Technology Outcomes document (http://www.education.gov.ab.ca/k_12/curriculum/bysubject/ict/). Still not sure I can get my "head around" the F's (foundational knowledge), C's (communication) and P's (processes for productivity) within this document. What ever happened to the "good olde" - K (knowledge), S (skills) and A's (attitude) objectives?
All the students have now selected a topic, grade level and subject area for their lessson plans. Margy MacMillan - the "searching goddess" faciliated a session on Wednesday night for us on how to find "creative" and useful lesson plan resources on the Web. This assignment is due on Sept 27th and I'll be sure to "publish" the completed work on this Blog.
In the mean-time the students have a bunch of Web-based readings to do on Productivity Tools (word processing, spreadsheets and databases) for our next class discussion.
Norm
We've made it over week two - the "hump" week. I think we finally have "who's who" in our class figured out - after a series of last minute additions and withdrawls. It looks like we'll have 14 GREAT students as members of the fall 2006 EDUC3325 class.
This week was definitely one of getting all the course "technical issues" - out of the way. Everyone is now active on the course discussion forum, has signed up to moderate one of the weekly discussions and knows where our summary wiki is located. Almost everyone has a brief bio and picture posted to their Blackboard Student Home Page. And, we're all connected by email - yahoo!!
One more item to go - our student weblogs. The "gang" is currently having a "peak" at Dr. Debra Hoven's student blogs (http://lifentheuniverse.blogspot.com/).
With all the "techy" stuff behind us - we began focusing on how we can construct Internet-based lessson plans. On Monday night - we reviewed the Alberta Information Communication Technology Outcomes document (http://www.education.gov.ab.ca/k_12/curriculum/bysubject/ict/). Still not sure I can get my "head around" the F's (foundational knowledge), C's (communication) and P's (processes for productivity) within this document. What ever happened to the "good olde" - K (knowledge), S (skills) and A's (attitude) objectives?
All the students have now selected a topic, grade level and subject area for their lessson plans. Margy MacMillan - the "searching goddess" faciliated a session on Wednesday night for us on how to find "creative" and useful lesson plan resources on the Web. This assignment is due on Sept 27th and I'll be sure to "publish" the completed work on this Blog.
In the mean-time the students have a bunch of Web-based readings to do on Productivity Tools (word processing, spreadsheets and databases) for our next class discussion.
Norm
posted by Norm Vaughan | 8:30 PM
1 Comments:
Wow Norm - sounds like your lot is going well & being very productive as well as reading & thinking - taht's great!
Have you had a look at our wiki recently?
http://teaching.ed.qut.edu.au/cln618/wiki/index.php/Student_Projects
All my students now have their webquests posted. Some are in questgarden at SDSU & therefore www-viewable, while others have saved theirs on their students space within the university password-protected area - & yet others have posted theirs in both locations. Some of them created their own models just using Dreamwweaver, while others used the Questgarden templates. What are your plans?
On the topic of lessons using technology, mine are now working on their final assignment which requires them to use either Hot Potatoes or Swarthmore Makers to create tehir own module of online language activities. I'll keep you posted how that goes ;-)
-Debra-
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