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Kristina Lattanzio

What Online Students Want to Tell Faculty - 0 views

  • Designing your course to promote quality interaction between faculty and students and among students is essential.  Consider emphasizing the course conference by making it a part of your class assessment possibly as a substitute for test, paper, or project.
  • Be patient and available.  Remember some of us are first time online learners and are still trying to figure out this method of teaching and learning.
  • Be accessible
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  • Put yourself into the class.  “The professor was always available, encouraging and even made the lessons humorous by adding personal tidbits.”  “She gave us constant feedback and encouragement.”
  • Think about your role in the discussion.  Students want you to be present.
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      It's important to be present, but it's also necessary to know when to step back and observe interaction between students.
  • Give frequent feedback on assignments so students have a sense of what they have mastered and where they need to focus attention.
    • Kristina Lattanzio
       
      Helps students to know that you are "there" and motivates them to improve in subsequent activities.
  • Your presence in the class is important.  These courses should not be seen by the student as “self-taught.” 
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    Outlines student concerns of online learning and what instructors should know about student needs.
Diane Gusa

The Technology Source Archives - Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Le... - 0 views

  • Principle 5: Good Practice Emphasizes Time on Task Lesson for online instruction: Online courses need deadlines. One course we evaluated allowed students to work at their own pace throughout the semester, without intermediate deadlines. The rationale was that many students needed flexibility because of full-time jobs. However, regularly-distributed deadlines encourage students to spend time on tasks and help students with busy schedules avoid procrastination. They also provide a context for regular contact with the instructor and peers.
    • Kristina Lattanzio
       
      Set clear deadlines for work to create comfortable online learning environments. Helps students keep themselves on task and enhances learning.
    • Diane Gusa
       
      I considered doing this, but was not sure...I noticed Alex did this when she would say "read Ian's post" or EXCELLENT! aand I wanted to check out what was said even more.
  • Allowing students to choose project topics incorporates diverse views into online courses.
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  • Communicating high expectations for student performance is essential.
  • give challenging assignments.
  • communicate high expectations is to provide examples or models for students to follow, along with comments explaining why the examples are good.
  • publicly praising exemplary work communicates high expectations. Instructors do this by calling attention to insightful or well-presented student postings.
Donna Angley

Content to Classroom: Tapping into Multiple Intelligences - 3 views

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    This website (PBS) is a great resources for learning about multiple intelligences and how to incorporate them into your classroom activities/lessons. It's an interactive site, so click away!
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    excellent, first use of diigo in the course!!! well done, Donna!
Diane Gusa

Social Media Classroom Invitation to the Social Media Classroom and Collaboratory - 0 views

  • includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service
  • integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes—integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools. 
  • The Classroom also includes curricular material: syllabi, lesson plans, resource repositories, screencasts and videos
Diane Gusa

Instructional Immediacy and the Seven Principles: Strategies for Facilitating Online Co... - 0 views

  • One approach is research in the area of instructional immediacy.
  • Chickering and Gamson’s (1987) seminal work, Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education and its subsequent applications of instructional strategies used in web-based classe
  • The IHEP (2000) report, a sequel to the widely cited 1999 report that identified “gaps in the literature” of web-based learning, cited 24 benchmarks considered essential for ensuring quality and excellence in web-based courses
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  • Ehrmann (1995) encouraged researchers to focus on (a) which teaching and learning strategies are best (regardless of technology used) for the specific content and audience, and (b) which technologies are best for supporting those strategies (p. 4).
  • he technology media, as Clark (1983) explained, are just “vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers our groceries causes change in our nutrition” (p. 445).
  • While nonverbal immediacy is important, verbal immediacy may be more relevant to web-based instructional settings as the instructor is not physically apparent to provide nonverbal cues.
  • As students move through the different quadrants when learning a lesson, the teacher’s role changes from content expert (quadrants 1, 2) to facilitator and coach (quadrants 3, 4). The 4MAT cycle of learning centers on teaching to the learner where they are by considering their learning styles, left-right brain processing, and multiple intelligences (cf. Gardner 1999). The 4MAT model has been adapted to distance education by offering web-based educator training that mirrors the core principles of the 4MAT model.
  • immediacy training program
  • Faculty participating in such training increased their use of verbal immediacy behaviors by 42 percent and, consequently, experienced a 59 percent increase in student participation in class compared to those in the control group.
  • Immediacy also relates to course design, or how a teacher deliberately arranges a set of external events to support the (learner’s) internal learning process (Gagne? 1992).
  • The authors suggested programming the computer to issue personal greetings when a user logs on
  • students’ perception of increased interaction with the instructor occurred when they interacted with the course (regardless if they had direct contact with the instructor) on a consistent basis.
  • Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, Chickering and Gamson (1986)
Diane Gusa

BrainBerg Child Development Center: Multiple Intelligence - Where Kids are understood b... - 0 views

  •  Our schools and culture focus most of their attention on linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligence.
  • equal attention on individuals who show gifts in the other intelligences: the artists, architects, musicians, naturalists, designers, dancers, therapists, entrepreneurs, and others who enrich the world in which we live
  • many children who have these gifts don’t receive much reinforcement for them in school.
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  • learning disabled,"
  • linguistic or logical-mathematical classroom.
  • lessons in a wide variety of ways
Diane Gusa

ON COURSE: The One-Minute Paper - 0 views

  • : A “one-minute paper” may be defined as a very short, in-class writing activity (taking one-minute or less to complete) in response to an instructor-posed question, which prompts students to reflect on the day’s lesson and provides the instructor with useful feedback.
  • What was the most important concept you learned in class today? Or, “What was the ‘muddiest’ or most confusing concept covered in today’s class?
  • more as a student-centered reflection strategy designed to help students discover their own meaning in relation to concepts covered in class, and to build instructor-student rapport
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  • *For you, what interesting questions remain unanswered about today’s topic?
  • In your opinion, what was the most useful idea discussed in today’s class?
  • *What do you think was the most important point or central concept communicated during today’s presentation?  
  • *What relationship did you see between today’s topic and other topics previously covered in this course?
  • Minute papers can provide a “conceptual bridge” between successive class periods
  • Minute papers are a more efficient way to promote writing-across-the curriculum than the traditional term paper.
  • Minute papers can function as an ongoing learning log or learning journal for the course.
Kristen Della

Compensating for the Shortcomings of the Written Word | Mindgate Media - 0 views

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    Written communication lacks the subtle tonalities of the spoken language, as demonstrated in this humorous ad in which a single word is said 15 times with a slightly different meaning each time. Writers must compensate for these deficiencies by providing detail and context and selecting their words precisely.
Diane Gusa

ETAP640amp2011: Peer evaluation- does it tell the whole story?: Peer evaluation- does i... - 0 views

    • Diane Gusa
       
      A good example of how we learn through experience. The peer evaluation was not vague. You could see (visual feedback) the outcome of your choices.
  • accepting the way things turn out
    • Diane Gusa
       
      I am not sure if dividing the pie taught you to accept things as they turned out. I am sure this lesson was taught as the process continues
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  • elevate the quality of your own discussion posts.
    • Diane Gusa
       
      not if I do not understand what the "number" meant.
  • Maybe they are right. maybe not.
    • Diane Gusa
       
      How do I know who is right (though this has not been the issue for me, the issue has been understanding) if I don't know what criteria they felt I missed.
  • This feedback is intended to help you improve your posts.
    • Diane Gusa
       
      But you both may have given a 3 on different criteria. So I ask again, how will I know what to improve?
  • use the feedback to gauge your success.
    • Diane Gusa
       
      I mean no disrespect, but I gauge my success on what I have come to understand and can apply to my online teaching.
Diane Gusa

Information maps - 0 views

  • In doing a little research, I came across a book by Terry Anderson called, "Theory and Practice in Online Learning." He has some suggestions for giving students an outline, or what he calls an information map, at the beginning of a lesson or module. He talks about the importance of how content is presented initially, and how that affects memory.
Teresa Dobler

Online K-8 Program | K12 - 0 views

  • It's not all "online": You'll also receive boxes of traditional materials, including award-winning textbooks, CDs, videos, and hands-on materials that complement online learning.
    • Teresa Dobler
       
      The course provides a combination of online and traditional resources to students as part of the educational program.
  • online delivery and individualized learning
    • Teresa Dobler
       
      While individualized does not have to mean student centered, they can go together. I would hope in my own online course, I would be able to focus more on the student centered work.
  • Individualized Learning Plan, monitors progress, and focuses on each student's individual problem areas.
    • Teresa Dobler
       
      A very different role for the teacher in this online environment.
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  • parent booster clubs, museum trips, student clubs, school activities, picnics and more.
    • Teresa Dobler
       
      Community building is still an important part of the educational system.
  • Suggested lesson plans are provided to you each week, which update automatically as your child progresses
    • Teresa Dobler
       
      One way in which the work is individualized.
Teresa Dobler

Of Plato and iPads: Should We Use Technology in the Classroom? | The American Conservative - 0 views

  • hamper classroom relationships
    • Teresa Dobler
       
      When used correctly, we have clearly seen that student interaction is possible, and even enhanced, using technology in the classroom.
  • students can easily disengage, looking at other apps (some for school and others surely for entertainment), perusing websites, and checking email
    • Teresa Dobler
       
      I do share the concern that my students will be off task during my lessons - however, can't they also be disengaged while taking notes in a paper notebook? I also, thankfully, have small enough class sizes that I can stand behind the room and see most computers, so it is easy to spot obviously off track students (ie someone in their email rather than a document).
  • The focus in a technological classroom changes from student-to-student and/or student-to-teacher to a student-computer relationship, with the teacher occasionally breaking into this primary bond.
    • Teresa Dobler
       
      When used correctly, I would disagree. My students are still interacting with each other. They are often working on the same shared document to create a product, or are talking in a small group and documenting the work in a document. More recently, I have also had students working in groups to produce songs, movies, and other multimedia products to show what they have learned. Thus, I can see in my own classroom that students are still able to interact richly with each other.
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  • Rather than creating solitary learners, such a method could encourage group learning.
abeukema

Equity Theory of Motivation in Management: Definition, Examples & Quiz | Education Portal - 0 views

  • fairness and equity are key components of a motivated individual
  • the higher an individual's perception of equity, the more motivated they will be, and vice versa - if someone perceives an unfair environment, they will be demotivated.
  • referent group is a selection of people an individual relates to or uses when comparing themselves to the larger population
efleonhardt

TeachersFirst - Rubrics to the Rescue: Involving Students in Creating Rubrics - 0 views

  • have a better understanding of the standards, gradations, and expectations of the assignment
  • sharing a rubric and reviewing it step-by-step to ensure that they understand the standards, gradations, and expectations
  • with the purpose and layout of a rubric, ask them to assist you in designing a rubric for the next class assignment.
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  • tudents feel more empowered and their learning becomes more focused and self-directed.
Alicia Fernandez

Building Better Teachers - Sara Mosle - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    Mastering the craft demands time to collaborate-just what American schools don't provide.
lkryder

User Interface Design For eLearning - 0 views

  • In the example below, the user interface is an elevator panel. Learners choose a floor on the panel, ride up to the selected floor and partake in learning activities on each floor. As they climb higher in the building, the activities become more advanced. The elevator panel on the left doesn’t correspond to a typical mental model of how an elevator works. When the user realizes that going up to a higher level lesson is represented as going down the elevator, it’s confusing. When we stick to conventions, as shown in the example on the right, we’re modeling the way most people think.
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