EDUC3325 - Week Five Reflections

Ooops,

With the Canadian Thanksgiving Day weekend I kinda got a week behind on my ITBL blog entries.

This actually was a BIG week as the EDUC3325 students began their Web-based portfolio assignment. The goal of the assignment is to provide the students with a an opportunity to create their own learning portfolio. This portfolio process allows them to reflect on their learning at Mount Royal College and it also creates a "space" that they can continue to build upon when they transfer to the University of Calgary, University of Alberta or the University of Lethbridge to complete their studies. We're using "free" tools to create the portfolios - nvu.com is the Web editor and geocities.com is where the sites are being hosted. Examples of previous student work can be found at EDUC3325- Winter 2006.

In other news - the students have begun to collaboratively post their online discussion summaries on our EDUC3325 Wiki. The discussion this week is particularly interesting - Transforming the Learning Experience. Jenn Poor is moderating the discussion and she has asked everyone to complete Don Pratt's Teaching Perspectives Inventory (TPI) so that we can discuss the congruency between our teaching practices and our learning preferences.