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alexandra m. pickett

Jim's viewable streams of thought - 2 views

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shared by alexandra m. pickett on 12 Jul 09 - Snapshot
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 21 Jul 09
       
      jim: breathe.... i am so sorry. i know how very frustrating this can be.... just a week ago i lost one of my blog posts ... i was crushed and frantic after spending a whole day writing the post... if you follow me on twitter you may have seen my frantic panic expressed in my appeals for help to the the twittervese for assistance/suggestions on how to recover the post ... i just spent so much time on it....and i have no idea how i deleted it.

      I am not sure if this will help, but unbelievable after doing all kinds of things to try to recover my post, i actually found it by hitting the back button on my browser. I am on a mac and using firefox, so i don't know if it would work in other browsers or on a PC. there may also be other factors. I never shut down my computer and i use millions of tabs. I think my copy was still in the cache of the computer on the tab that i had used to create the post...

      anyway. i hope you are ok now. and i look forward to this post.

      me
  • What I’m really coming to grips with is how much the students might not be actually understanding when I communicate orally.  How much of this information is not remembered?
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 12 Jul 09
       
      exactly! : )
  • It’s not about being the “sage” but about being in a room full of people and interacting on issues I love. 
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 21 Jul 09
       
      I LOVE how you put this Jim!!

      For me my room is here with you and the others in our class, and i feel the exact same way.

      My fondest wish for all of you is that you get to experience your love of teaching- - that same feeling of love and satisfaction you get f2f -- in an online teaching and learning environment too.
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  •  How do I prove this? Just take a look at the course I’ve built and there is evidence of learning. 
alexandra m. pickett

Thoughts About Teaching Spanish Online - 0 views

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shared by alexandra m. pickett on 12 Jul 09 - Snapshot
  • t occurred to me that real learning requires the removal of classroom walls in the sense that students need to be made to feel empowered  in their ability to learn independently, as well as in the amount of information they learn. 
  •   Online learning requires a different framework of thinking and behaving.  It requires a sense of self-reliance, responsibility and an openness to collaboration and reflection. 
  • Many of our high school students are not equipped with these survival skills. 
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 19 Aug 09
       
      barbara: it is my experience that students rise to your expectations. I have seen remarkable work by k12 students and lower level college students.

      And even if it is true that they are not well equipped, they will have a fantastic teacher in you to get them there : )

      me
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  • Suddenly, the student is propelled to think clearly and critically, as now their core ideas have the potential to be shared with anyone, anywhere.
  • online learning not only allows students to learn according to their favored multiple intelligences (visual, auditory, tactile, etc.), it also allows students to learn according to their own rate of information reception.  While the classroom forces us all to be quick thinkers, and immediate responders, many of us are not.  We need time to formulate ideas, responses and concepts.  Students who cannot respond immediately are left out of the learning environment and many may eventually ‘check-out’. 
  • Personal stories give life to a faceless person, just as they do in literature.  We come to know, like, love, despise, and sympathize with characters the more we know about them.  Online it is very different in the sense that we are communicating interactively, but unless we become ‘real’ to our students, there will be a disconnect between instructor-student that must ultimately interfere with knowledge acquisition, particularly since effective teaching presence has been shown to directly affect the quality of education in online environments based on interactions between students and instructors (Alex – Breeze presentation module 5).
  • Seeing others accomplish things that I had either not thought of, or was too intimidated to attempt, made me take chances. 
  • This is what learning is all about – moving out of our comfort zone and pushing our possibilities.
  • Specifically, I need to ask myself:  Do these questions simply ask student to use their  foundational knowledge, and book resources,  in order to answer the questions? Or do they need to think, analyze, research and push themselves cognitively in order to understand, and answer, the posted questions?
  • In an online environment it is fundamental.  Discussions generate questions, and questions promote critical thinking.  I now firmly believe, and understand, that in order to promote a higher level of language usage, I need to help my students learn how to think critically through questioning.  This is best accomplished through a dialogue format, where all students are expected to contribute in a relaxed and supportive learning environment.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 12 Jul 09
       
      Brilliant!!! yes! you are getting it!
  • I am wondering if there is a way to copy a module set-up, and then simply customize the web pages within each module. 
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 12 Jul 09
       
      i wish there were in moodle but to my knowlege there is not. Believe me, i understand.
alexandra m. pickett

Reflections on Online-Teaching and Learning - 0 views

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shared by alexandra m. pickett on 19 Jul 09 - Snapshot
  • I know that I have learned, for god’s sake I created an online course! 
  • teaching online can make you a better f2f teacher
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 19 Jul 09
       
      you might be interested in this: online teaching as a catalyst for classroom based transformation https://urresearch.rochester.edu/retrieve/6493/Catalyst+for+Classroom+Transformation.pdf
      : }
  • change the world!
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 17 Aug 09
       
      one person at a time! : )
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  • I have learned that interaction is essential to teaching and learnng.  Learning is a social activity.  I feel I have been brave enough to include a discussion forum in each module of my course.  It was easy really to do.  the questions I have posed are big questions-they are not lower level thinking questions.  in order to elicit the rich content from my students in the discussion i need better instructions and to create that rubric-i will do.
  • I felt scared and now I feel empowered. 
  • By pushing myself to interact better I can learn to teach interaction to my students.
  • As I grow as a teacher, there is no doubt, that I will be rocky road.
  • I am proud of myself and patient with myself.
  • can’t believe how far I’ve come.  So, I guess that’s the most suprising thing that i have learned.  I can do this tech. stuff.  well, another thing that strikes me as suprising is that this course has helped me to become a better f2f teacher.  i can no longer hide behind my fear for interaction in the f2f class.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 11 Aug 09
       
      Have you seen this article?

      ONLINE TEACHING AS A CATALYST FOR CLASSROOM-BASED
      TRANSFORMATION
      http://www.google.com/search?q=a+catalyst+for+classroom-based+transformation&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 11 Aug 09
       
      jess: you not only can do it. you did do it! yay!!
  • i suppose i can.  
alexandra m. pickett

My New Adventure in Online Teaching - 0 views

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shared by alexandra m. pickett on 12 Jul 09 - Snapshot
  • online teaching requires me to do something I hate - completely rethink my approach. 
  • I already recognize that this will require me to sacrifice spontaneity and creativity at times but I think on balance it is the right way to go.
  • what I will take away from it is so much more than any all-nighter I might have put in.  I now feel confident to teach my own online courses and hope to begin implementing a hybrid online program in the 2010-2011 school year.   This class has given me that kind of confidence and I’m all the better for it.
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  • I also was reminded that in many cases, our students technical skills often far surpass our own and that our course development and approach to online teaching should be informed by that fact. 
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 12 Jul 09
       
      how do you come to this conclusion? is it supported in the SLN demographic data? are you sure this it true? do you buy into the digital native vs. immigrant assertion?
  • I am still not entirely sold on the need to have the entire course completed ahead of time – though who am I to argue with the experts? 
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 11 Aug 09
       
      hey bill. our research findings support this assertion and i want you to know that there is a positive and significant correlation between the percentage of course completed prior to the first day of the course and student (and faculty) satisfation and reported learning.

      Seems like building the airplane whilst in flight is not a good idea - the faculty experience is negatively impacted and the students also notice...
  • In other words, modifications can be done in a controlled setting. 
  • My emotions ran the spectrum from a little bit of anger at being asked to complete a task that I didn’t entirely think was realistic, to disappointment in myself that, even though I thought I had caught up, I obviously was still just treading water.  I’ve settled somewhere in the middle but regardless I decided to just put and shut up and make my way through the remainder of the course development process.
  • theory is easy and practical application is a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. 
  • I’ve constantly considered and reconsidered the importance of my role as the teacher as I’ve laid out Module after Module.
Jennifer Boisvert

Jen Boisvert's Blog - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Boisvert on 12 Jul 09 - Snapshot
  • . I am constantly brainstorming and asking myself questions (from student perspective) like “Would I want to learn this? What am I going to get out of this course? Would I be able to complete the allotted work during the time frames I have provided?”
  • So, in less than one week the site admin area of Edublogs changed. It threw me for a loop, but I like the design a lot better.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 11 Aug 09
       
      did you see that i posted it as an announcement to our twitter course stream?
    • Jennifer Boisvert
      Jennifer Boisvert on 15 Aug 09
       
      I did! Sorry it took me forever to respond back. I just realized that if you click on it, you can respond back.
  • One area I am not too sure of is having students grade their own work or others. I am not sure how effective this is.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 12 Jul 09
       
      ok... you set it up... go find studies that support or refute the efficacy of peer and self evaluation : ) i want to hear what you find.

      : ) me
alexandra m. pickett

Learning... - 0 views

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shared by alexandra m. pickett on 21 Jul 09 - Snapshot
  • . I  have to get away from thinking that LIB 105 is “just a one credit requirement that no one wants to take.” Instead, as Alex suggested some time ago, I need to make it alive and engaging and what I really want it to be.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 21 Jul 09
       
      Bravo Anne!! share your passion! think about stuff from their perspective and what would make your content relevant, applicable to their real lives.

      how will you know if you are doing it right?
      will they tell their friends about it?
      will they continue to do it/use it after the course?
      would they spend their own money to do it/use it?
  • The cool thing is that they seemed like second nature after reading the manual, listening to the model course instructors and most importantly paying close attention to how Alex has constucted, guided and facilitated our course. I learn best by example and this has been an extraordinary model for me to follow.
  • to answer the question of who I am as an educator and a learner, I am both simultaneously
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  • I think what I learned in this module is that my class will only be as engaging as I make i
  • As interesting as this article was, I would have like to have read it prior to reading the Shea, et al. article which used Garrison’s material. I think that it would have been more relavent then.
Jessica Backus-Foster

World Mosaic Created From 1001 Web 2.0 Logos - 0 views

www.appappeal.com/b-2-0-application-world-mosaic

web2.0 map tools web_art

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Jennifer Boisvert

SoftChalk : Authoring Tool For Easy Content Creation - 0 views

www.softchalk.com

software education elearning Tools

shared by Jennifer Boisvert on 06 Aug 09 - Snapshot
  • Jennifer Boisvert
    Jennifer Boisvert on 06 Aug 09
     
    SoftChalk is a powerful authoring tool that allows educators to easily create and edit interactive content for eLearning.
Jennifer Boisvert

Hot Potatoes Home Page - 0 views

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software quiz tools assessment web2.0

shared by Jennifer Boisvert on 07 Jun 09 - Snapshot
  • Jennifer Boisvert
    Jennifer Boisvert on 07 Jun 09
     
    Software that allows you to build different learning activies such as crosswords, fill-in-the-blank sentences, multiple choice questions, etc. On September 1, 2009 it will be freeware.
Barbara Recchio-Demmin

Actualidades: Blogueando Para Aprender - 0 views

zachary-jones.com/spanish

blog Spanish audio video education

shared by Barbara Recchio-Demmin on 02 Aug 09 - Snapshot
  • Barbara Recchio-Demmin
    Barbara Recchio-Demmin on 02 Aug 09
     
    Module 5
  • Barbara Recchio-Demmin
    Barbara Recchio-Demmin on 02 Aug 09
     
    A real blog for real Spanish learners
James Ranni

Resource: Discovering Psychology: Updated Edition - 0 views

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shared by James Ranni on 02 Aug 09 - Snapshot
  • James Ranni
    James Ranni on 02 Aug 09
     
    Free Video resource with great materials for teachers and students.
alexandra m. pickett

ActionGeekBlog: Frazzing - 0 views

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actiongeekblog frazzing

shared by alexandra m. pickett on 29 Jul 09 - Snapshot
  • alexandra m. pickett
    alexandra m. pickett on 29 Jul 09
     
    Frazzing, short for frantic multitasking, refers to a form of mental channel switching caused by all the distractions we face today: cell phones, Blackberry coms, e-mails, pages, I-Ms, and good old, in-person interruptions. The Stickler never wants to say "I told you so," but it is what it is.
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