Thursday, March 17, 2011

session:9

e-Learning Delivery: Group Projects


we are working in this assignment in group project
. In our group we are 4 members me, the leader donna,
Theo and Nate. We working to create a rubric to evaluate the final project of ETEC648.

You can view our group work in this link:

group page

or go to
ETEC 648 (WINTER 2011 SECTION 01) -----> COMMUNICATIONS ---> GROUP PAGES ------> GROUP PROJECT (DONNA, EMAN, NATE, THEO)

and donna will post the rubric in our page.


Tuesday, March 8, 2011

session:8

e-Learning Delivery: Motivating students

1. Provide your rubric(s). Make sure that your rubrics evaluate the quality of responses given by your students during the online discussion. Your rubrics should also address group management issues, for example, if your students post responses on time and if they follow your instruction.



Category

Poor
1 pts

Fair
2 pts

Good
3 pts

Discuss the content:
discuss three useful tools in education

Student discuss only one tool

Student discuss two tools

Student discuss all the three tools

Delivery:
Delivery of Post

Student have many spelling and grammar error in his post

Student have few spelling and grammar error in his post

Student have no spelling and grammar error in his post

Classmate posts:
analyzing and summarizing different points

Student make one post and don't write the required comment

Student make two post and don't write the required comment

Student makes two posts and writes the required comment.

Time:
time of deliver the Post

Student post after the due date with out an excuse

Student post after the due date with an excuse

Student post responses on time


2. Write your delivery plan following the format below:

A. Describe the audience to whom you will deliver your “Online Discussion” activity. Are they the same audience to whom you deliver your “Good Start”? [Remember that you will need to have at least 3 people participate in your online discussion activity. This activity will need to be delivered online.]

Because I don’t have students to deliver the online discussion activity, I will deliver it to the same students that i delivered the good start. donna andT heodore and I need more one volunteer

B. When or roughly when will you deliver activity #2 (Online Discussion)?

I just discuss this point with donna and Theodore, and we don’t have date yet but I think it will next week if its ok with both and it will be totally online.

C. How will you show evidence of your delivery? Will you provide the URL from which I may see the online discussion? Or will you provide transcripts of synchronous discussion?

The delivery will be in the discussion board, when you go to the discussion board you will find EUDC333 (Eman's delivery), that will be the place for the online dissociation.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

session: 7

The online discussion will be for my students. The discussion will be through a blog. I will create a blog and send the URL to the students. The discussion will be asynchronous.



Student Handout

We will have an online dissection from March 8, to March 15 before midnight (one week).


Objectives:


1- Students will learn some of education technology tools.

1-1. Students will learn some of education technology tools from the instructor post.

1-2 . Students will learn some of education technology tools from Internet.

1-3 . Students will learn some of education technology tools from other student classmate.


2. Students will develop his/her skills for analyzing and summarizing different points.



Please complete the following tasks through the session week:


Level I (include three tasks)


1- View these website :

A- http://compassioninpolitics.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/top-ten-free-education-technology-tools/

B- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAWwWC2n7wQ

2- chose three tools that you think its useful in education (maybe you know about it before this class or may you just learn about it in this class)

3- Make post include the following:

A- Give a definition for these tools (you can use the internet)

B- How this tools work in education (from your experience or from research in the internet)

C- In your opinion explain Why you do think the three tools that you chose are useful education explain that in 50-100 word

D- If you use these tools before can you Share your expires.

Your should explain Level I in 400-600 words

You should do Level I , March 12 before midnight.


Level II

• read your classmate posts and choose two students and post the fallowing:

A- What were the new things that you learn from his/her post?

b- Do you agree with his opinion and explain why you agree with his/hem or why you don’t agree.

You should explain Level II in 250-450 words

You should do Level II , March 15 before midnight.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

session: 6

e-Learning Delivery and Assessment: Good Start




1. Revise your "Good Start" (Activity #1) materials for delivery and for evaluation.

I add what my friends suggested to my welcome email:

1- I explain what the URL.

2- I give some link to how create a blog.

3- and I ask them to make a two comments to other students blog in the same welcome email.

This is my welcome message after my adding: Welcome message <---- link

This message will be send it to the students in the first day of the class by email.


A. Provide the URL of your online instruction for delivery, including your syllabus and schedule.

Pleas click in these links:

1- website LINK

2-syllabs LINK

3- schedule LINK


B. State which session you will deliver.

I will deliver session three. Please click on this LINK

a. State the objective(s) of the session.

The objectives are:

3- students will learn how to use skype as a technology tools to interact and communicating:

3-1-students will view the power point (step by step)

3-2 students will download the skype program

3-3 students will make user name in skype

3- 4 students will send the user name to the instructor and post it in his blog.

b. State how these objectives of the session address the objective(s) of your online instruction.

The goal and main objective in this course is:

(Make the students know how the important of the Characteristics in design online course and develop student’s technology skills and make them use some new technology tolls).

This session objective is to make them learn one of the important technology tools, which is skype. When the students learn how to download and sign in the skype program, that main they learn a new technology tools that what is in the goal of the course.

C. List documents for "Good Start" delivery and link to the documents.

1- Welcome email LINK

D. List documents for "Good Start" evaluation and link to the documents.

1-.Rubric LINK <--- (you will found it in my syllabus.)

In the end of the course I will have a Quiz (I don’t have as document, because I don’t deliver the last session, the quiz will be in the last class and its one of the important evaluation in my course)

E. Describe the audience to whom you will deliver your "Good Start" online instruction in ETEC648.

I don’t have a class and students because of that I will deliver my course to some of students in ETEC 648 class. (thank you my friends so much)

a. Are they your target audience or your classmates? If they are your classmates, list their names. (Note: at least three classmates)

My classmate:

1- Donna Shea

2- Noemi Castro

3-Theo

b. Number of the students if applicable?

Three of my classmate.

c. Deliver in a lab or online?

We are still discussing this subject but I think we will meet in the lab.

F. When or roughly when will you deliver activity #1 (Good Start)?

The last discussion was at March 8 .

Monday, February 14, 2011

Session 5

e-Learning Delivery: Online Discussion




((McKinley))




Good Points:

1-the course is an resource web page this will let every one who interest in gliding able to view it.

2-the goals and objectives for the course are clear.

3- You give a number of people to carry out the procedures (student-student)

4- You encourage students to establish communication with classmates that what Reana and keith says that online course should contain this element which (discussion and interaction with other students and the instructor (pg 50).

5- You use a survey as a test for evaluation and revision the course.


Suggestions:

Because the gap between my experience and yours I dose not right to criticize your work. I have no experience in the field of education, but I hope that my comment is add somethings good for your course.

1- In your good start you use a great technology tools but can you be more pacific for example how you will let your students know about your video presentations! When they attend your course do you send an email to them as a good start include your video presentations?

2- One more things that I suggestion to you my friend: that is the deadline and feedback. “Instructors need to provide two types of feedback-information feedback and acknowledgment feedbac”(Rana & keith pg 52)




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(( Sally ))




Good points:

1- You have a clear goal and objectives.

2- In each assignment you have a Deadline. In Reana and keith book they talk about the online course should contain this elements one of them was “online course need deadlines”. (pg. 52)

3- You support the communication with other students and with the instructor. “Good practice encourages cooperation among students. (Reana and keith, pg 52)

4- You Use a different of technology tools such us video, podcast, and text document

Suggestions:

Because the gap between my experience and yours I dose not right to criticize your work. I have no experience in the field of education, but I hope that my comment is add somethings good for your course.

1- In the first week you will consist of course orientation how you will deliver that for example: you will send an email to your students in the first day. You can also add an word document the good start email that you will send it to your students include your orientations.

2- You ask your students to introduction of themselves can you be pacific about what you want them to say (I have same this point in my good start and dr Emy told me that I need be more pacific in what I want from my students)

Thursday, February 3, 2011

session: 4

e-Learning Delivery Plan



1. Write your plan:


a. When will you start your delivery?

My course is EDUC333 The Characteristics in Online course, this course will delivery in March 12th in this course will teach students the Characteristics in an online class to make them able to design an online course in the future. Students will also learn about how to use new technology tools. This course will be totally online class. In this class we will use instructor website and each students should have blog. And communication ways will be blog and email and skype. I will use the two kind of e-learning (instructor-lead or learner –led)

b. What will your delivery consist of? #1 and #2? #1 and #3? Or #1, #2, and #3? (Listen to the podcast file.)

I will delivery consist of # 1 Demonstrate good start of the course or units;

# 2 Mange and motivate students through online discussion.

There is not a group project in this course

c. When will you deliver the activities in (b) above? What will be the duration of the activities?

The activities will take one week before mid night students need to view the syllabus and

do the required and post their work.

d. How do your activities correspond to your objectives? Describe your activities.

For example in my course in session (3)

The objectives are:

3- students will learn how to use skype as a technology tools to interact and communicating:

3-1-students will view the power point (step by step)

3-2 students will download the skype program

3-3 students will make user name in skype

3- 4 students will send the user name to the instructor and post it in his blog.


The activities:

students will go through the power points and they download skype program after that they will make user name and send it to me and post it in their blog.

2. Good Start

a. Post all material for “Good Start,” (#1 above) for example, having a technology check list, MP3 file for course orientation, and student profile.

In the first day in the course I will send an email to all the students (welcome message) and tell them how to get started in the course and there in copy of the email in my website:

1-Welcome message and week one <---- link



b. How will you know if your “Start” is good? Write your evaluation or assessment plan. Include instruments or rubrics for your assessment.

In my good start I asked the students in (Welcome message and week one) to create a blog and make the first post that include introduces themselves and make 2 comments to other blogs.

I will know that I have a good start if the students created their own blog and send me their URL and post the first post, which introduces themselves.


Saturday, January 29, 2011

session:3

Online Instruction Evaluation


1. Select one of the rubrics or use one of the standards identified by the Quality Matters Program to evaluate one existing online courses of your choice. The course may be an online course you have taken as a student or a free online course available on the web.

Developed by Blackboard Exemplary Course Program (ECP)

2. Explain why you chose the specific rubric/standards/elements and the particular online course.

Last week when I write the report about the three of the rubric I found the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program (ECP) is the most one that have a lot of information and details. The way that (ECP) explains each main points was grate and clear.

The course I chose to evaluate is ETEC676. I chose this course because the topic if the course was interesting to me. And I want to learn how to evaluate like this topic in the future.

3. Post your evaluation results?

Course Design

1- Goals and Objectives: (exemplary)

Goals and objectives are easily located in the syllabus.

Course goals and objectives are explained clearly in the syllabus.

Students can find what they need to do in each week under the schedule.

Schedule has links to each session page

Session page has all the required assignment and the did line in each session.

2-Content Presentation: (exemplary)

The content present clearly, student can view the schedule and find all the sessions in this course organized by week in each week there is the assignment that is required to do it before the did line.

Each session have like to the content include WebPages, links prodcast, etc.

3. Learner Engagement: (exemplary)

Instructional strategies are designed to help the student in reaching the course goals. And objectives.

4. Technology Use: (exemplary)

This course has a servile of good technology tools.

Students will learn new tools and will improve their learning experiences.

Interaction and Collaboration

1. Communication Strategies: (exemplary)

Both synchronous (blogs, discussion) and asynchronous (videoconferencing) are using in this course.

2. Development of Learning Community: (exemplary)

Communication activates are used to improve student learning and skills.

Student-to-student: it’s required to comment on each other’s blog weekly.

Student-to-instructor: students send email to the instructor if he faces any problem or misunderstand the assignment.

3. Interaction Logistics: (exemplary)

in each session there is a link to what is required. Students can clearly find the details of the assignment for example the didline.

The instructor takes an active role in help the discussion in the course. Also he give the feedback weekly.

Assessment

1. Expectations: (exemplary)

Assignments and Assessments are aligned with stated goals and objectives

Instructions offer clearly detail to ensure learner understanding. Post them like step by step.

2. Assessment Design: (exemplary)

Assessments require the use of higher thinking skills.

Multiple types of assessment are provided in this course.

3. Self-assessment: (exemplary)

Students should post comments in each other’s blog weekly.

Learner Support

1. Orientation to Course and CMS: (exemplary)

a course orientation is available for students.

Publisher produced materials and content tools external to the course environment provide support for their use.

2. Supportive Software: (exemplary)

The Instructor in this course post many links to necessary software and students need to download. For example: skype.

3. Instructor Role and Information: (exemplary)

The instructor has a special web page he post it in his syllabus

the page have information about the instructor such as, Instructor name and photo,

Email, phone, skype ID, the office location and his office hours.

4. Course/Institutional Policies and Support: (exemplary)

in the syllabus you can find all the course and institutional policies.

5. Technical Accessibility Issues: (exemplary)

In each session in the syllabus has a file formats. All documents are in .doc format.

6. Accommodations for Disabilities: (exemplary)

All the session have the required post in tow way podcast(audio or video) and Microsoft word.

7. Feedback: (exemplary)

Student can have feedback all the time in this course.

4. Describe how you will revise your own online instruction for successful delivery based on what you learned from the evaluation of the existing online course?

  • I will add more objectives for some sessions (Course Design ----> Goals and Objectives)
  • In my powerpoint i will add voice. (Learner Support -----> Accommodations for Disabilities).