Here is my blog address. Of course, this is a work in progress and everything isn’t published. I’m adding a lot of information over the weekend.
Good luck the final projects!
Happy Thanksgiving!
I know that I haven’t posted lately I’ve just been so busy working on my final project. So far I have my design created and have plenty of work for the weekend. I really just need to insert my information and I’ll be finished. During the next 3 days I’ll hopefully complete my project, so wish me luck.
Eisenstadt reminds me that I shouldn’t believe everything I read or hear! I don’t believe what he did was wrong and honestly I found it very entertaining. That is the beauty of the internet you can be whoever you desire. Although, these reputable media outlets should verify the information before they spread it across the world.
I want to create a blog or wiki that explores different tools online educators can use. My focus will be blogs, feeds, podcasts and widgets. I would provide tips and tricks, along with tutorials that would assist educators new to online teaching. It would also help those online teachers that solely use the features Blackboard provides.
Which should I use blog or wiki?
How could I expand on this?
Any suggestions?
Evaluation
OLDaily led me to an article by Clark Aldrich discussing evaluation strategies. This article gives you tips on developing your own strategy for evaluating.
Tips include:
Evaluating students before or after.
Standardized multiple choice or short answer.
(Personally, I don’t like short answer)
Test vs. Reflection
This defiantly gives you some ideas if you’re trying to develop your own rubric for evaluating student progress. This article helped me design my rubric for the final project in 688.
The global nature of the web defiantly has an effect on evaluation. Everyone isn’t taught the same way, especially when you compare students in the USA to students in Finland. (Finland has the highest rate of teen literacy in the world). When teaching global you have cultural differences and language issues that you also deal with. I couldn’t imagine taking a class at some university in Finland which has the best educational system in the world. We should remember that students can’t always be responsible for their learning, because they haven’t had a quality education.
Chat sessions are very important in our class and they defiantly enhance the course. It gives each of us more social interaction with everybody at once. The chat room feels like everyone is physically in a classroom on campus together, but luckily we can communicate from anywhere. We receive responses and feedback instantaneously to our questions which really helps.
Playing a game that shows no images or graphics and solely text-driven was very scary to me in the beginning. The easiest part about this game is creating the character and the most difficult was learning how to play the quests given to me. Just finding the correct way to type in commands was also difficult. I always had to reference the map, because without it I would play poorly and look like a fool to other the players. Unlike your typical graphics based computer game you can’t just start playing without reading about the basics. You have so much to remember and the smallest task can be difficult. Now that I’ve reached my required level I want to start having more fun with the game.
