Talk:Jessica Witkowski's Portfolio Page
-- Janewilde (talk) 11:30, 12 October 2013 (EDT)
Hi Jessica, You are off to a good start with your instructional design plan. Here are some suggestions.
- Take a look at my portfolio page. It has the headings we will use on the portfolio page. You can go into Edit and copy and paste them from mine into yours.
- Under the first section I want you to consider Gagne's five learning types (what he calls outcomes). Which of these will you look for. The reason I ask you to do this is that we usually limit ourselves to types of learning that we can test on typical tests. These are limited to what Gagne calls verbal and motor outcomes. This people can recall and things people can physically do. Will you teach this kind of learning? Will you also teach to intellectual, cognitive and attitude?
- What you have now will go in the objectives section, though I would like you to add to each of these next week, based on the reading this week. Align your verbs to the outcome types you want to achieve.
- By now I want to see that you can add a picture to the wiki. Maybe on your personal page. If you need help with that let me know.
I love your survey! Did you ask anyone in our class to complete it? jane
-- Janewilde (talk) 19:49, 15 October 2013 (EDT)
Your portfolio is looking great. The finger painting hand is evocative of your topic and the sensory motor experience! Images in online courses can really help learners make connections to the verbal content.
I see that you intend to teach to intellectual, verbal and cognitive skills. I also notice that your current objectives mainly address the lower level (think Bloom's taxonomy) verbal skills. See if you can develop objectives that better reflect your intention to teach higher level skills.
Keep up the good work! Jane
-- Ashley Smolinski (talk) 00:39, 31 October 2013 (EDT)
Hi Jessica,
I also really enjoyed seeing your finger painting image. I'm excited to learn more about your topic, and especially to see the task you create so that the participants can analyze how they would handle a specific classroom situation. Were you going to have them pick from a list of different scenarios or have them construct their own? I have seen so many cool sensory activities and ideas through Pinterest lately that there seems to be, as you point out, a ton of interest in new ideas! Looking at your performance objectives, I think I'm also going to try to incorporate having my participants create a list of benefits as to why the topic is important. I think it will certainly help reinforce the skills they'll learn and remind them why they should keep integrating these types of lessons in the classroom.
Re: -- Jessica Witkowski (talk) 15:44, 6 November 2013 (EST)
- Hi Ashley!
Thanks so much for the feedback. I actually will be having my learners do both picking from different scenarios to analyze how they would implement different sensory techniques, and then also applying it to their own classroom and reflecting. I definitely think that by first learning the foundation of the topic and listing why it's important, then working with scenarios, then applying it to one's own classroom, this would be the best way for success in reinforcing the topic and skills learned.
feedback -- Josiah Boehlke (talk) 23:51, 23 November 2013 (EST)
Jessica,
What I liked…
I felt you have a great mini-lesson! Your visuals are good and your content is organized and clear. I really like your application component in your lesson. You give a clear focus for what the viewer should know and do after viewing your lesson. I also like your guiding questions throughout your lesson.
A few thoughts…
If after each unit, you could link it to your next lesson, it might make it easier to flow through the lessons. Another thought is adding more references to your list and possibly additional resources on the topic to look up, if needed.
Overall, great job and I look forward to viewing your final mini-course!