Talk:Eric Stott's Portfolio Page
Instructor comments on your project -- Jz833665 11:00, 5 March 2012 (EST)
Eric, The topic you've chosen for your mini-course is very interesting and practically useful. A few suggestions:
- You may want to focus more on the educational than the technical side of social media, to help teachers understand how such new media may help make their teaching more engaging, interactive, and productive.
- There are many resources on this topic online, and you'd want to focus on the research-based references as the basis of your content. Here's a special issue in Educational Research on Web2.0 http://edr.sagepub.com/content/38/4.toc (including a commentary from me) and papers citing this special issue: http://www.scopus.com/results/citedbyresults.url?sort=plf-f&cite=2-s2.0-68249133803&src=s&imp=t&sid=mQWnI33bHU_4YsRg8PNKpkp%3a60&sot=cite&sdt=a&sl=0&origin=inward&txGid=mQWnI33bHU_4YsRg8PNKpkp%3a5
- Please catch up with the project schedule to create your course level objectives
instructor comments on your objectives -- Jz833665 15:00, 24 March 2012 (EDT)
The course-level objectives are overall appropriate, although you can make each more specific in line with what we have learned about performance-based objectives. Here're some possible ways to do this.
Participants will understand the importance of integrating social media into instruction.
This can be expanded into to objectives: 1) describe what social media is using examples; 2) when asked by peers,... identify at least three possible educational benefits of social media
Participants will be able to facilitate class discussion outside of class using social media.
e.g. class discussion about curriculum topics they teach using a social networking tool such as facebook...??
Participants will be able to assess student understanding through the use of social media.
assess student understanding of curriculum content based student discussion and participation in social media.
Please refine your objectives and work out your task analysis and ICM soon.
Instructor comments on your ICM -- Jz833665 21:38, 26 April 2012 (EDT)
Hi Eric,
You've reviewed your ICM that laid out your units and objectives in a nice sequence. My only concern is that your unit 1-2 focus on tech in education in general, which is not very necessary for participants to understand educational use of social media. I'd suggest that your mini-course only include two units (your current unit 3-4), plus a wrap up activity that requires the participant to design an authentic learning activity. This will help you narrow down and save some time . What do you think?
Barbara Bonanni -- Barbara 10:33, 4 May 2012 (EDT)
Hi Eric,
I think your ID topic is very valuable for educating teachers to use social media in the classroom to integrate technology into their curriculum. I looked over your curriculum map and it sounds like you are going to have an awesome course. I especially look forward to Unit 4 where you are actually going to show how to use facebook as an education tool.
Barbara
Web 2.0 -- Paul Gervasio 18:49, 11 May 2012 (EDT)
Eric,
I really like web 2.0 tools as well. I have been trying to integrate them more into my classroom. I think you also pointed out a great benefit of these tools, there free. They save schools resource like paper and they are green friendly, which I appreciate. I am also interested to see how you will use facebook in the class. I currently use blank preprinted facebook profile pages every once in a while. I have the students use them for biographies of differnt people or events. I would like to see how you plan on using the actual website. I tried to use myfakewall.com but my school has it blocked (as well as facebook), it would be nice to see if you have a work around.
Paul