Is this it?

Truth be told I'm ready to let my brain rest in the area of e-learning...okay, not really. I'm already starting to contemplate whether or not what I'm proposing for my Senior English class needs to be taught online. That decision's not up to me, but for the first time in my further education career, I can honestly say I would STRONGLY consider teaching online. It would be a huge stretch for me, but I think I could do it.

Maybe you can be the judge & critique my project proposal...well, at least 4 tools worth, anyway. Check it out: Weege's final project for E-learning

Week #7 Reflections

This week has been all about getting our final project to publishing stage, but it began with the creation of objective writing. I honestly thought that wasn't too big of an issue, but my first attempts (as well as the attempts of many of my peers, I might add) were quite unsuccessful in the eyes of the instructor. Objective writing seems to be a bit more of a science than choosing terms from Bloom's Taxonomy and writing. Though it is a helpful tool, the instructor shed the most light on the topic when she posted, "What I've found is that every institution will have their own way of writing learning objectives and you will need to oblige.
The reason that I like this 'type' of learning objective is that, in order to write it as this level, you must a great deal of course design clarity." It certainly is true that we need to adapt to the criteria of each institution/instructor.

To be quite honest I thought objectives seek to level the playing field, and maybe they still do, but uniformalizing (my newly constructed word) language used within objectives may be necessary to ensure that this happens. The following website was quite helpful when considering the necessary characteristics of objectives for this class/teacher.

http://www.e-learningguru.com/articles/art3_4.htm

Week #6 Reflections & such

Okay,
This week we've created a pre-course survey, so here's the link:
pre-course survey -- hope that works b/c I've never done that before ;)

Then we spent a bunch of time discussion/comparing two journalism courses - one by our instructor, one by a former student. Since I'm learning, I'll attempt to create links for those, too
Here's Casey's ...alright, that only takes you to the home page of Stout's course...hemmm...I need some help w/ creating a link to something that's already embedded elsewhere, aparently.
At any rate the concept of cybercoaching became a central item of discussion, while Datta chimed in with this gem I'm taking away this week. It's about a "loop" that exists within objective-creating:
1) first the foundation - the learning objective which sets the 'goal' -

2) to build towards this learning objectives there are the activities -

3) to support the activities there are tools -

4) to discover the efficiency of the activities and the tools, there is the
assessment -

5) the assessment feeds back information to the learning objective.

Hope these things are proving as insightful for you as they are for me ;)