Talk:Colleen Organ's Portfolio Page

Instructor comments on your needs assessment and objectives -- Jz833665 11:52, 17 October 2010 (EDT)

Colleen,

Am I right you will design lessons for a unit to demonstrate how technology can be integrated and applied?

If this is the case, your design project will produce an instructional case report, to provide a specific classroom example of a topic (tech integration in the content area). The learner in your case will be your students. You will identify a content area/topic in which you will use tech to foster student understanding. You will elaborate why, what tech, how used, and to what effect... The learning objectives are written for students, not teachers. Other teachers will learn from your experience and example and even adopt some of the strategies you used.

Below is a copy of the guideline I posted in General Suggestions and Feedback

What issues should be addressed in an instructional case report?

Here are the basic elements an instructional case report should include:

   * Rationale and overview: Your intend, what it is about, what a teacher may learn from it.
   * Learning context (or professional training context)
   * Why the selected pedagogy/tech/assessment tools are appropriate in this context.
   * Lesson plan
         o The learner
         o Educational outcomes and performance objectives (including sequencing the objectives into an ICM)
         o Design ideas about the learning processes, media, resources, assessment
         o Lesson units (unit objectives, content, activities, resources/tools, assessment if needed within a unit) 
   * Implementation
   * Reflection 

This is only a primary outline to guide your work. You may find some of the elements inapplicable to your case or that a different structure works better for your case report. So you can adjust in meaningful ways to make your case study report most informative, readable, and valuable to teachers.

Instructor comments on your objectives and task analysis -- Jz833665 15:13, 9 November 2010 (EST)

Colleen, You might be aware of this: your task analysis needs to be more specific in order to clearly guide your next steps. Before the step of task analysis and instructional sequencing, you need to first identify course-level performance-based objectives (generated through your needs assessment) as your target objectives. Your task analysis will elaborate the components of each course-level, target objective through identifying more specific enabling objectives, to be addressed as your unit-level objectives. So, add a section in your portfolio "Performance Objectives" (e.g., Participants will be able to: understand why tech is necessary for religious education, identify... tools and resources that are available.... create effective lessons that use these tools...); then make another pass of the task analysis. I hope this helps.