Reflections on Final Project Draft

I know that my paper needs more work when it comes to writing objectives. I think I have a handicap with writing them as they pertain to online learning and teaching. As far as the paper is concerned, I enjoyed sharing my subject and combining the teaching of it online and onsite. That was a treat. Also, I learned how to use Google Docs for the first time. It has its purpose and lie anything else sweetness and bitterness so I halfway like it. I like that it can be shared by inviting others to join, those others can edit and I can email from it. Downside: when I go to change the font, it won't let me. It switches back and forth. I cannot change the page layout. There are some other issues as I think Google Docs tries to act like MWord but it doesn't act user friendly like Word does. Like I said, plusses and minuses.

Using Survey Monkey.com as a Precourse Assessment

I liked using all of the features of Survey Monkey.com because it was user friendly. If I made a mistake, I was able to correct it. It gave me an example of what some of the questions looked like before I decided to make them so that helped too. When I was finished I then emailed it to my instructor and placed the other version into my eportfolio.

The next thing we had to do was to look at the way our instructor used cybercoaching in her journalism online class. She used feedback, virtual chat, made sure students had access to materials, assisted them when they needed it. Virtually everything that she does with us.

She has encouraged me to googledocs my final project so that I will learn how to use the technology. I will admit this about Google, it provides everything that I need for my course such as blogging, surveymonkey (all I needed was my google account). So far so good. So, I am up for the challenge. Wish me luck.

Reflection on Blooms Assessment Table Update on Final Project

I enjoyed reading Casey's Journalism class unit/lesson plan because she made her lessons accessible to all of her students and provided opportunities for collaboration, sharing, demonstration, analysis, and application.

It really opened my eyes that with practice, one can turn an onsite class into an online class with online assessment tools. So I can say that I liked that application.

When it was time to read through Casey's assignments and place them into the appropriate box that was a little difficult to do because I had not used Blooms in a while as my lesson plans are already written for me. All I have to do is implement them. I think that from now on, I will not only analyze the objectives a bit more but turn them into online applications. How can this onsite application be turned into an online application (objective) will be my thought as I go along in my teaching.

My final project is beginning now. I have to place everything into a word document. Ratts!! I had hoped to place it into a PowerPoint. Oh well.

Reflecting on working with My Technologically Brave Classmate

I enjoyed the collaborative process in working with Carolyn and learned a few things about her:

She's willing to take chances with the technology (it was her decision to place our dcoumentation into Google Docs). We both had access to it (good thing I had my google account open), we were able to edit and save just as you would in a Word document. My problem was getting around the headers in the documents because I found that when I was typing something into the document, this line would end up in my words so I don't know. I would still cut copy and paste from Word rather than going immediately to Google Docs to begin a document.
Then she uploaded us onto her wiki where I have been invited to join to chat Again, if it were me, I would have posted the paper but as Carolyn is adventurous, it creates a positive step toward engaging in the collaborative process, plus I have a preview of what I need to do when and if I decide to use wikispaces as an assessment tool. She suggested that I use WebEx as a part of my final-see how it performs, works, etc. I may take her advice.
Finally, Carolyn placed our document in pdf format which the link has been cut, copied, and pasted below. She has demonstrated proficiency in areas that I am still lacking as I was just as happy to have had my paper finished, emailed it Carolyn while she worked on her part added it to the document, and then added all of the technological extras. I was able to follow her lead and benefit. Carolyn has demonstrated what she has learned in our class thus far. I think I need to play catch up.
Carolyn and I researched two collaboration tools that can be used in the classroom to design instruction with both formative and summative assessment in mind.

http://assessment-toolbox-edu-762-930.wikispaces.com/file/view/Midterm_assessment_for_EDU762930FEB_5_2010.pdf