Final Post

As my final project is complete, and all the activities are finished, just a quick note to all those who made these past eight weeks a wonderful learning experience. I wish you all the best in all the endeavors you choose.

Since I received full credit on my first draft, I will save some room in cyberspace and refrain from posting it again. The previous post contains the finalized project.

Thanks for reading and I wish you all the best!

Dave

Week Seven–Final Project Progress

Below you will find the progress I made towards my final project. I’ve really busted it hard this past week to have a document that is close to finished as possible. I look forward to the feedback as I’ve really tried to have a finalized draft. I hope you enjoy the Prezi and get comfortable reading the lengthy Word document form

Assessment in E-Learning: Final Project, E-tools for Educators on Prezi

(CLICK ON ABOVE LINK TO TAKE YOU TO THE PREZI)

Week Six Reflections

Okay, needless to say, it was quite a week.

It’s Monday, we’re back from the hospital, the girls—my wife and my daughter—are asleep (as I type as quietly as possible), and now time to reflect.

Week Five Reflections

With this learning objective business, you’ve got a tough sell, Dr. Khalsa.

Assessment Taxonomy Table

Bloom categories	Learning objective verbs	Activity
Knowledge (recall, list, define, identify, collect, label)	Research/define	Students research the Patriot Act and the American Civil Liberties Union’s views.
Comprehension (summarize, describe interpret, predict, discuss)	Summarize	Students will research and explore how standards of appropriateness have changed over time.
Application (apply, demonstrate, illustrate, classify, experiment, discover)
Analysis (analyze, classify, connect, explain, infer)	Connect	Students will find examples of news stories they feel redefine the Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists. They will then classify what types of materials do so and the manner in which they do.
Synthesis (combine, integrate, plan, create, design, formulate)	Create	Students will create guidelines for appropriateness.
Evaluation (assess, recommend, convince, compare, conclude, summarize)

Week Four Reflections

This week centered on our work with the Jigsaw Midterm (see previous post for more information on that). Reflecting on our group’s work on the project, I discovered yet another way elearning’s functioning is inherently different than its face-to-face counterpart.

Jigsaw Midterm

Here’s our group’s jigsaw midterm (click on Keep reading). Working with Karen and Marilyn was great, as they were responsible, efficient group members.

A bit of behind the scenes on how it was created: we initially discussed who was going to focus on what on the D2L site. From there, I set up a wiki (which can been seen here) allowing for us to post/edit our responses. After all was posted, Karen took care of the introduction, Marilyn the conclusion, while I made all the last minute final touches to make it a cohesive document and posted it on our discussion board. I hope you enjoy our work. 

Week Three Reflections

This week was an interesting contrast for me. The first part of the week, for me, focused on the 2004 Bonk article, which I thought was an excellent read. It was interesting to see the technologies he saw becoming part of education flawlessly fall into distance education (discussion boards, blogs), while others, I hadn’t heard of and don’t think that I will (augmented reality). More than just taking away the content of the article, it again reminded me how quickly technology can appear—and disappear.

It makes me wonder in six years, what will distance education resemble?

Nine Principles of Good Practice Response

After going through the Nine Principles slideshow, I was asked for a response. Here’s what I wrote (actually, what I submitted was not my final product…I started typing in the box offered, but then wanted to go back and look through some of the slides again. When I was returning to the response screen I got a bit mouse-click happy and zoomed right past it, thus submitting it. What’s below is my full response.)

Concept Map

My concept map reflects a course directed towards educators wanting to learn more e-tools to use in their classrooms. (click on the image for a larger view)