Group 3 Treatise Paper - 35 views
Group three, Here is my evaluation for your group's treastie paper, good job. Team Evaluated Team 3 Rubrics Powerful argument that was well articulated and organized. Powerful argument that was s...
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group 2 treastie paper - 44 views
5 Powerful argument that was well articulated and organized. 4 Powerful argument that was somewhat well articulated but could have been a bit more organized. 3 Good argument, but could have been b...
Scott's G3 Treatise Evaluation - 12 views
Chih-Hsiung Tu wrote: > Scott, > > Could you be more specific why this paper is well organized? > > Chih The section headings were concise and well-supported in the content of the paper. The c...
Suzanne's Treatise Evaluation Group 4 - 9 views
Group 4 Evaluation: 4 Group Members: Tracy Botts, Renee Marshall Group 4 provided a strong argument for online learning. They very effectively tied information together and gave a good overview of...
Suzanne's Treatise Evaluation Group 3 - 3 views
Group 3 Evaluation: 5 Group Members: Melissa Carroll, Marta Herrera, Nasreen Wahid Group 3 provided us with a very engaging introduction that set the tone for the paper. There is al a very strong ...
Suzanne's Treatise Evaluation Group 2 - 3 views
Group 2 Evaluation: 4 Group Members: MJ Hall, Jeanette Layton, Beth Summerhill Group 2 tied together the three sections of the paper together in a seamless manner. They thoroughly defined online l...
Suzanne's Treatise Evaluations Groups 1 - 2 views
Group 1 Evaluation: 4.5 Group Members: Marilyn Robinson, Scott Pfister, Suzanne Sallee Group 1's introduction provided a basis for the entire paper and guided the reader through what they should e...
Scott's G2 Treatise Evaluation - 10 views
I give this paper a 5. I feel this treatise paper was well organized, well written and the argument was well articulated. The group cited research beyond the textbook and did a good job of explaini...
Scott's G1 Treatise Evaluation - 18 views
Scott, Excellent justifications! I encourage to put more thoughts to Vygotsky's theory since his socio-cultural leaning theory aligns to new web 2.0 learning environment well. Chih
Group 5 Treatise Paper - 12 views
Section I "If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. But if you let me experience, I will learn." The means by which humans experience knowledge has evolved exponentially since th...
Treatise Paper and Wordle - ETC677 Group 2 Spring 2009 - 0 views
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Chih-Hsiung Tu on 14 Apr 09Thanks for the Wordle art! Based on your Wordle art, I noticed "communciation" appeared to be one of important componenets in your treatise paper. Pleae justify why "communicaiton" is important.
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MJ Hall on 15 Apr 09Like everythin in life communication is key. It allows for people to be able to share ideas. Communication allows for students to get clarification on anything that they are learning as well as teachers to express their expectations. I think that in an online class or distributed learning environment, communication is essential. Sometimes instructions are not clear, so students and teachers need to communicate with each other to get that clarification. Communication is also a great way to assess student learning. This comment for example is me communicating with you on your question about communication. -
Chih-Hsiung Tu on 15 Apr 09I like the way that you framed the question: "Communication is also a great way to assess student learning. This comment for example is me communicating with you on your question about communication. " Based on what you describe, can we say communicaiton is learning?
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MJ Hall on 17 Apr 09I think that people learn by communicating. So I would say yes, communication is learning. By me passing on my knowledge or ideas to someone else and they understand it or never heard of my ideas, then they have learned something. My way of passing on that information is communication. So in the process of communication, people can learn.
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Hi, I like the typeface you all used for your wordle art. How interesting how one can receive learning from this tool! :) MARY
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Mary, I wonder how "typeface" can facilitate learning.
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Treatise Paper - ETC677 Group 4 Spring 2009 - 0 views
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Common Question III: Most of people probably would agree that all instructions should have integrated online (distributed learning) technology. Do you agree or disagree? Why? Please at least provide three reasons with good literatures to support your arguments.
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Common Question I: In the lesson, I will ask each group several common questions and specific question on your group treatise paper. These questions can be responded by any of your group members as an individual opinion or as group response. It is your group decision. Here is the first question. a. Please list five most critical elements of distributed learning "strategies" in distance learning.
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Common Question II: How does WetPaint Wiki inhibit and/or enhance your group social interaction and social learning?
Group 3 Treatise - ETC677 Group 3 Spring 2009 - 0 views
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Common Question I: In the lesson, I will ask each group several common questions and specific question on your group treatise paper. These questions can be responded by any of your group members as an individual opinion or as group response. It is your group decision. Here is the first question. a. Please list five most critical elements of distributed learning "strategies" in distance learning.
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Common Question II: How does WetPaint Wiki inhibit and/or enhance your group social interaction and social learning?
Treatise Part 1 Paper - ETC677 Group 2 Spring 2009 - 0 views
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Common Question I: In the lesson, I will ask each group several common questions and specific question on your group treatise paper. These questions can be responded by any of your group members as an individual opinion or as group response. It is your group decision. Here is the first question. a. Please list five most critical elements of distributed learning "strategies" in distance learning.
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Group 5 Treatise Paper - ETC677 Group 5 Spring 2009 - 0 views
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Common Question III: Most of people probably would agree that all instructions should have integrated online (distributed learning) technology. Do you agree or disagree? Why? Please at least provide three reasons with good literatures to support your arguments.
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We are going to play the devils advocate here and disagree. I do think that in some situations integrated online technology can be utilized to create a better learning enviroment. However I do not think that it is needed in all instructions. I feel that some times adding this distributed learning could take away from the content learning, because then instructors are not focused on what they are teaching so much as the tool they are using to teach it. This is discussed inds the Assessment portion of Encyclopedia of Distributed Learning by: Ana DiStefano, Kjell Erik Rudestam, and Robert Jay Silverman. The Encyclopedia also discusses briefly in the section on cognitive development another possible issue with distributed learning. The issue is that of isolation that distributed learning can create and how this can affect cognitive development. But as the Encyclopedia says long term results are not known because of the relative newness of distributed learning. I have taken many traditional classes that I feel were just fine without the added element that distributed learning brings. I think in some of those classes the teachers could not have handled a distributed learning element so it would not have been effective, if anything it would have taken away from the class, in fact I have taken some classes where this happend as well and the distributed learning took away from the content.
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Thanks for the Wordle art. Based on your wordle art, students are used more frequently than learners. Please justify why? Are studetns the sanme as learners? If yes, why. If not, why not?
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Common Question I: In the lesson, I will ask each group several common questions and specific question on your group treatise paper. These questions can be responded by any of your group members as an individual opinion or as group response. It is your group decision. Here is the first question. a. Please list five most critical elements of distributed learning "strategies" in distance learning.
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Common Question II: How does WetPaint Wiki inhibit and/or enhance your group social interaction and social learning?
Group 1 Treatise Final - ETC677 Group 1 Spring 2009 - 0 views
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Common Question I: In the lesson, I will ask each group several common questions and specific question on your group treatise paper. These questions can be responded by any of your group members as an individual opinion or as group response. It is your group decision. Here is the first question. a. Please list five most critical elements of distributed learning "strategies" in distance learning.
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There are many important learning strategies associated with distributed learning. There are 5 that I would consider to be the most critical: Collaboration - the opportunity to learn with and from others. Problem Solving - looking at and studying real life problems and finding solutions. Reflection - thinking about your learning. Articulation - verbalizing your thought, ideas, and learning. Exploration - the ability to learn about new things, new tools, new ideas.
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Common Question II: How does WetPaint Wiki inhibit and/or enhance your group social interaction and social learning?
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WetPaint Wiki enhances social interaction as well as social learning with groups because it allows groups to add documents to their group folder, edit them in the folder and there is an email sent to you to let you know there was a change done in your groups folder. You can create Wiki's to use for class discussions as well as working on individual projects and groups work. Wiki enhances the students learning by allowing a more hands on, interactive way of learning and creating assignments. Using Wiki's it allows students to be creative and enhance their technology skills. This is my first time using WetPaint and it was difficult at first, as anything new is, but once you work with it, it's easier each time.
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Beth, Thanks for the responses! I see you addressed a few advantages of wiki work. How about disadvantages? Could you address some? Chih
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Chih, A disadvantage of using wiki in the classroom would be if you are having students use wiki for homework, studying, or a project that needs to worked on at home not all student have access to a computer or internet. This would make it difficult for students. I know a lot of teachers who make assignments online allow students to come in before or after school or during free time to use school's computers. also, some school's might not allow the wiki site and it might be blocked. I know I tried to access at my school and it would not let me through. I am sure if I was to really use wiki in my class I could see about allowing access to the site but that also would be difficult if you are not able to have access. Beth
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Beth, If I understand you correctly, we should allow students more time to engage in wiki activitites and be flexible with wiki as well. Correct?
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I would say that the way Wetpaint or other wikis best enhance learning is through their collaborative abilities. Wikis make it easy to work on projects together - everyone can edit, add to, and share their ideas. They sort of add a real life element to online work. In real life work, each group member can add to or take away from the project. A wiki allows group members to do that digitally.
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Suzanne, Great experiences in using wiki! Frequenly, I have heard students indicated wiki was a great tool for real world and authentic activitites. They have reservations on using it because they feel it could go out of control because the real world and auentic activitites frequenly are unpredictable. Wiki collaboration refer more time and more comittements. Do you feel the same way?
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Chih, Real world and authentic activities can prove to be unpredictable and that is where the instructor/facilitator would play a part in helping the students to stay focused. And sometimes, that unpredictable nature helps us to see better ways to do things or other topics that need to be addressed. Yes, wiki collaboration can be more time consuming. However, our globalized society and research have shown the collaboration is extremely important today in all areas from engineering to education. The time we spend helping students learn how to collaborate effectively and efficiently would be time well spent.
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Common Question III: Most of people probably would agree that all instructions should have integrated online (distributed learning) technology. Do you agree or disagree? Why? Please at least provide three reasons with good literatures to support your arguments.
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I do agree that all (or at least most) instruction should include online technology. I am speaking pretty much from an elementary education standpoint but I think this also applies to secondary and higher ed also. One of the main reasons is student engagement. When teacher and/or students are using technology, especially online technology, students are more engaged. Well-known and respected educational researchers and theorists such as Hunter, Gagne, and Bloom even included engagement (anticipatory set, gaining attention) as part of the flow of a lesson. Our world has become so globalized over the past couple of decades and the development of online technologies has contributed to that as noted in the book The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman. In order for students/learners to be able to understand and use the Internet effectively for problem solving, collaboration, and communication we must include opportunities for them. One of the most emphasized 21st Century Skills is collaboration. It is one of the main skills being sought by employers today. As quoted by Dr. Tracy Gibbons of CoastWise Consulting: "The complexity of today's technology makes it impossible for any one person to know all of the intricacies behind a new product's design and development. Only 20 years ago, designing and developing a product were more of an individual effort, and organizational design centered on a hierarchical approach. Today, companies have to accept that rapidly emerging technologies, a global marketplace and an increasingly competitive and complex business environment demand workplace collaboration." The use of today's various online technologies (Web 2.0 tools) allows students and instructors to collaborate in ways that they have never done before and help to prepare them to enter a global workforce.
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Suzanne, Excellent point on five features! I encourage you to apply these five features to select and integrate technologies. Chih
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Suzanne, Excellent point on: "They sort of add a real life element to online work. In real life work" So I assume you would agree Wiki activities provide opportunity for real world and authentic learning. Correct? Chih
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Chih, "So I assume you would agree Wiki activities provide opportunity for real world and authentic learning. Correct? " Yes, I would agree that Wikis can provide opportunities for real world and/or authentic learning. In a previous class, a group project involved creating an improvement plan for a school we had researched. I created a wiki for the group to collaboratively work on the project with each of us adding our own pieces and editing/commenting on each others. For educators, working on a project to help a school improve its academics is definitely "real world" and being able to work collaboratively in the wiki environment brought the project to life for each of us. Suzanne
Group 6 Treatise Paper - 37 views
Evaluation Group 1 - 12 views
Tonya, Thanks for your evaluations! You indicated: "I liked how they included an appendix at the end and thought that it added to the paper. " Could be be more specific on the addenpix? Thanks!...
Group 1 Treatise - 27 views
Treatise Word cloud - ETC677 Group 1 Spring 2009 - 0 views
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Thanks for the Wordle art! Based on this visual components, tools appear to be an important componenets in yoru paper. Please justify what the tools are and why they are critical?
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Online distributed learning utilizes a wide variety of tools to affect student learning. A CMS organizes the course. Learners use web browsers to research information and communications tools such as e-mail or discussion boards. Tools such as word processing and spreadsheets are used to display data and share what we have learned in written form. Newer Web 2.0 tools allow learners to collaborate and share information and ideas in ways that have never been done before.
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Scott, Great comments about needing to test the tools prior to utilizing them within a course. Sounds like this could be made into a course itself - Web 2.0 Tools 101! Assignments could be for students to use, test, and evaluate the tools for their effectiveness, reliability, and ease of use.
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I have now see and participated in using online tools and I can say that it s 1. definitely enhances social learning - so many more perspectives to include that make us smarter. 2. It also engages the learner and encourges more exploration. 3. Being required to use the tools keeps us up to speed with r the rapid change, introduction, and use of new tools. .