Talk:Strategizing for Family and Community Involvement

Unit 1 Feedback -- Chelsea Troeller (talk) 18:53, 3 May 2015 (EDT)

1) I liked/What works well:

General Comments: I think that your portfolio page gives a lot of great information about your topic, and the design of your course.

Learning outcomes: Your learning outcomes are very clearly defined and explained.

Content-goal consistency: I like how you used a combination of video and text information for Unit 1. This helped keep me more engaged in the learning. I was also able to make connections between the video and text teachings.

Instructional sequencing: I think that the sequence of your mini-course is very effective. Your units build upon the knowledge built in each unit prior.

Engagement and interaction: I really like the way you introduce the purpose of the unit at the beginning of Unit 1. This made the unit more purposeful to me as the learner. Your use of multi-media techniques to present information also helped me to stay engaged and motivated to learn.

Technical quality: The design and layout of your page is clear and easy to navigate. The text is informative and helps add purpose to the linked material. Overall, I found your unit to be very organized and user friendly.

Extended resources: The links on your unit are very clear and recognizable. The information is also very useful and relevant to your topic. I also enjoyed the graphic organizers that you included on your page. They are very easy to understand and make meaning from. I also think they are great resources for meeting the stated objectives.

2) Have you considered this?:

General Comments: I’m not sure all of this information is necessary for the introduction of your mini-course. I think that building a separate intro-page with information that is just pertinent for a participant of your course might better suit the needs of the participant. There is a great example of a simple intro-page on Deb’s “General Suggestions and Feedback” Page.

Learning outcomes: I think that including the unit outcomes in the units themselves might help the participants have a clear goal for learning before starting the learning activities. Looking at your outcomes for Unit 1, I am not sure that the first outcome really describes an outcome of the unit. It is more of a description of what the participant will do in order to reach the other 2 outcomes.

Content-goal consistency: Because a lot of the information for Unit 1 is about why building relationships is important, have you considered adding an outcome aligned to these learning activities?

Engagement and interaction: Have you considered adding a brief interactive activity to help the participants make connections, and build more of their own understandings?