Talk:Kelly Geddes' Portfolio

Instructor's comments on your instructional analysis and objectives -- Jz833665 21:15, 18 October 2009 (EDT)

You've been working very productively in this project, Kelly. Great!

First, please use "participants" (instead of "students") to refer to your learners to avoid possible misunderstanding.

I want to comment on your objectives:

Course Purpose
   * The purpose of this course are the following:
         o Understand how concept maps can increase the LD student's understanding
         o Create various content specific concept maps
         o Utilize concept maps in the classroom 

Performance Objectives
   * Students will be able to describe concept mappings purpose in the LD classroom
         o define what a concept map is
         o identify various concept maps and their intended purpose 
   * Students will be able to create content specific concept maps
         o construct a concept map for one core subject 
   * Students will be able to operate Cmap Tools Software
         o compose their own concept map using CMap Tools 

(a) "Utilize concept maps in the classroom" is a very important outcome of this mini-course. I encourage you unpack this outcome in further to make it clearer. Do you mean that the participants will be able to design and facilitate classroom activities that use concept maps to support student learning?

(b) The above outcome has not been reflected in your performance objectives.

(c) "construct a concept map for one core subject" do you mean doing this on paper (condition of performance)?

(d) Research shows that CM can additionally benefit students if they are given a more active role to construct CM themselves as a means to represent, elaborate, monitor, and refine their understanding. Do you want to include student creation of CM too?

Instructor's comments on your refined objectives -- Jz833665 22:14, 20 October 2009 (EDT)

Your refinements work very well.

Re. Participants will be able to operate Cmap Tools Software to design concept maps

   * construct their own concept maps using CMap Tools 

You may search if Cmap has its own tutorial so that you can link to it without needing to create one, and focus on design and classroom use.

Instructor's comments on your ICM -- Jz833665 16:14, 28 October 2009 (EDT)

Hi Kelly,

Your ICM, along with your unit outlines, provides a clear and proper structure of this mini-course. Good work. You might have already thought of this in mind; but you may develop more elaborated objectives for each of the units. For example, demonstrating the use of CMs in LD classrooms would involve a number of specific skills and understandings, such as selecting hard/complex/proper content for CM, designing classroom interactions around it, etc.