Talk:Snagit: Instructional applications
The learner; pedagogical idea -- Jianwei Zhang 13:36, 3 March 2009 (EST)
Jason,
This is a very interesting topic and you have accumulate some good thoughts on it. Two issues for you to clarify:
(a) Who will be the learners? How would you describe their backgrounds and needs?
(b) What are the big ideas--pedagogical concepts/models/approaches that this course will focus on in connection with the technology tool? You noted ideas rooted in constructionism. Is constructionism the core pedagogical idea you want to get across? If so I think you really need to specifically define it focusing on a few of its principles that can be applied to language learning. Otherwise it will be too broad to be addressed.
Re. objectives and ICM -- Jianwei Zhang 21:06, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
I'm excited at seeing your recent progress in this project! Three thoughts to share with you...
(1) objectives
You said:
Global objective: The global objective for this lesson is to promote the use of technology in the classroom. My aim is to provide an example of how students can learn with technology as opposed to learning from technology. I feel that through a multi-faceted approach to language learning that utilizes technology will help students learn with ease and freedom from inhibiting stresses. Technology use in the classroom provides not only an opportunity for students to express themselves in different ways, but also prepares students for a digital working world.
As we've learned from Gagne, the learning objectives should stated in terms of what kinds of changes will occur in the learner as a result of your teaching/course. The current way of wording focuses on what you are aimed at. Please re-examine your enabling and support objectives from the same angle.
(2) Distinct the rationale of your instructional design case from the learning objectives of students.
Since you're creating an instructional case showing how a tech tool can be used for language learning with students as the learner, you need to state (a) your rationale in terms of what teachers will learn from this instructional design case, and (b) objectives of the lesson plans to be implemented among students: the performance-based learning objectives. "to promote the use of technology in the classroom. My aim is to provide an example of how students can learn with technology as opposed to learning from technology. I feel that through a multi-faceted approach to language learning that utilizes technology will help students learn with ease and freedom from inhibiting stresses. Technology use in the classroom provides not only an opportunity for students to express themselves in different ways, but also prepares students for a digital working world. " is more in line with (a) and needs to be more specific about Snagit.
(3) In your map, you listed "using a keyboard and mouse" as a target learning objective. Do you really mean to teach these skills in this course or should you identify these skills as students' entry skills?
Mini Course Peer Feedback -- Colleen DePuy 08:00, 25 April 2009 (EDT)
Jason-
This is a very interesting mini-course and would be very interested to hear how they felt the learned by using this hypermedia. After looking through your course, here are some modifications that you might want to consider:
My Portfolio: According to our evaluation criteria—you might want to consider adding some of your rationale for using certain methods and media. You might also want to provide some reflections on the progression of your course to demonstrate yourself as a reflective practitioner.
Evaluation Criteria:
Learning Outcomes- You may want to consider putting your overall course objectives right at the beginning for learners to see.
Content-goal Consistency- Your activities always correspond with your content-goal consistency.
Instructional Sequencing- I thought your sequencing was in the proper order, however, you may want to consider providing the teacher with a rubric to use in order to grade their students’ presentations. I also think that students would benefit from a project/presentation assignment sheet (or description) that allows them to know what they need to include and how they will need to present this. You may also want to consider having the audience participate in some way during these presentations so that they are continuing to actively learn. I also think it might be valuable to have student reflect in a discussion area about their experiences using Snag-It to help them learn these language structures. What benefits /negatives did this unit have from their perspective?
Engagement and Interaction- For your self-checks, you may want to provide an answer key of some sort so that students are able to check their answers to discover where they went wrong. You also might want to provide some expectations and requirements, as well as a model, for students to make their own quizzes in Unit One. You may also want to engage students’ interests in taking this mini-course. What benefits will I get from knowing how to use “SnagIt” in relation to learning conditional structures?
Technical quality- All links and the video, worked properly and I was easily able to navigate through the course.
Extended Resources- I would be interested in seeing other resources that I could use to promote the use of SnagIt. You may want to offer this at the end of the course
Peer Review
Stephanie Ames
I posted my comments under the page for Unit 1 if you're looking for them!! Sorry for the inconvenience.
Feedback on your lesson design -- Jianwei Zhang 14:40, 2 May 2009 (EDT)
Nice work and interesting design! Here are two main issues you may better address:
(a) Educational contexts, rationale, and the teacher's role: It is great that you've included materials for teachers to study and lesson plans they can use among their students. To better help the teachers, you may think about how you can better inform them of:
* Rationale and intent, what's it about, how may a teacher use the lessons? * Learning context (student age, background, technological requirements, etc.) * Why the selected tech tool (Snagit) and how it works with the selected instructional approach (project-based learning?). * Lesson plan: In the lesson units you should add unit objectives. * Implementation (have you implemented the lessons?) * Reflection (How effective are the lessons if you have implemented them?)
Almost all the needed information is already in your portfolio page. You just need to find and copy the proper texts into your final product.
(b)You have designed a set of activities for each lesson, so that the learners will be able to learn by engaging in and reflecting on these activities. A challenge however is to make these activities more idea-centered, helping the learners know what the deep contents are and why they are doing an activity, and reflect on what they've done and learned. So you may add a paragraph in the beginning to inform the learners the deep contents/issues to be understood and how the activities are structured to serve the overarching goal. Before each activity you may add 2 or 3 sentences backgrounding/contextualizing it, and a few words after an activity to highlight and reflect take-aways.