eLearning Example

Check here to see the Four Key Elements of learning in this module.

This resource gives you an indication of all the required and optional activities to complete towards Assessment 1.

Please Note:

• Unless otherwise indicated, all discussions require you to start a discussion and reply to someone else's post to qualify as completed.
• Some activities will automatically mark themselves as complete once the conditions have been met (i.e. discussions) but some require you or I to manually mark them as complete.
  
  • Manual activities have a solid square for the tick box.
  • Automatically marked activities have a dotted square.

You can track your progress of completed activities (towards Assessment #1) using the 'Course Completion Status' block to the right (just beware because it counts things differently to how I do).

Or you can download this file to keep track manually.

If you're having trouble writing or structuring your reflections, click this link to see some further hints as well as an example of my own.

Click this link to learn about this basic tool for producing interesting and relevant text images.

Then use the forum below to discuss the use of them in your teaching.

Read this article and be prepared to comment on how much you agree with the things Mark Kassop says.

Ever wanted a quick and easy way to brainstorm with others online? Do you wish there were sticky notes in cyberspace? Well look no further.

Padlet is a cool little tool that lets you stick ideas, words, images, links and other stuff to a 'wall' on the internet. And it looks nice too!

Once you've signed up (for free) you can save different walls for different purposes and share them with your students by emailing or putting the link on Moodle.

You'll see I have used a couple of these walls for this module as places where you the participants can post your ideas etc. in a more aesthetically pleasing way than cold-hard discussion forums.

The cool thing is that participants/students don't need a login/password to contribute. Although you can make them get and use one if you wish.

Check out the link above (www.padlet.com), and make your first wall even before you sign up. It's quite a universal tool with lots of possibilities for teaching and learning in the online environment.

This resource site, created by Ako Aotearoa, provides principles based on user perspective (teacher, student...) and stage (designing, Implementation..). This link takes you to the teacher guide, but the student perspective could be just as useful in your research. Read the guideline questions in your search for themes.

McDonald & Thompson (2005) - A report of their research into student/teacher perceptions of the quality of a particular online course.
You don't need to read all 25 pages, just the highlighted areas (amounting to about 5 pages).

Roblyer & Ekhaml (2000) - The authors outline a model/rubric for their take on what is important for a quality online course.
This may be a bit dated but it is still interesting to see the relevant principles.

This is the checklist all Wintec modules are reviewed against before they are allowed to be presented to students.
Ignoring the headings, what underlying themes/principles can you boil the items on the checklist down to?

Clicking on this link will take you to a shared Word document.
Once you click on the 'Edit in Browser" button you will be able to add your ideas to the others. Please don't be shy!

When you've finished don't forget to tick it as complete (to the right-->)

Watch this explanatory video then click the link to read more about the 'criteria' that you need to be researching for this section, and Assessment 3.

(Turn up the volume)

This page refers to some more sources of criteria to help with your search.

Have you used this before? A site that lets you 'pin' images from around the net onto a virtual 'pinboard'. Then you can share your collection with others. You can even create a collaborative board where several of you can contribute.

If you haven't already... go on and create an account and have a try. Then complete the activity described in the Forum below.

Here's a quick introduction...

See below to access the 'Padlet Wall' or click the link above if it doesn't show.

• Double click anywhere on the page to add your post.
• You can add a link or upload a file by using the icons at the bottom of the post
• Please include your name to verify you have participated.
• Please post at least two sources to complete this activity.

Created with Padlet

See if you can identify all the represented logos.

If the Padlet wall doesn't display below try viewing it in another browser or clicking on the link above this.

Created with Padlet

By Ed Hootstein

Slides presented on SlideShare.net

Scroll down just a little bit and view Figure 11-1 to see their version of the roles. You can also read the words if you wish

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