I COMPLETED my online course that I was designing for my EDLD 5318 course. What a relief!! Actually, I really had a great time planning, designing, and working on it. I feel so accomplished. Let me start with sharing with you how I designed my online professional development course. My learners/students will not need any external resources. I've embedded everything they need within the course. I'm using Canvas as my LMS and I have inserted pages that have links to reading assignments and embedded videos they need to watch. I also have embedded external digital tools within assignments where they need to go to the digital tool so they can learn on their platform more in-depth. Once they have the basic concept of these digital tools they will then have to submit it in the assignment via a snapshot or a link. This course is designed to be a self-paced course that each learner will complete individually, however, they will need to participate in discussions with their peers where they will share digital tips and tricks or favorites with the digital tool being taught. This week OSCQR standards focused on assessments and feedback. My course is for professional development credit so there are no "official grades", however, they will have to complete activities and submit assignments and these are just a completion grade. When I'm thinking of a course such as this one that we are in I tend to focus on standard #45 - learner assessment. As educators, we need to ensure we are keeping our learners engaged on a consistent and regular basis as this will help them master the material. Reference: OSCQR. The Open SUNY Course Quality Review (n.d.). Retrieved from https://oscgr.org/standard45/ on August 8, 2019
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Empowering teachers with the tools they need to improve their interaction with students is the main focus. This course that I'm creating will provide teachers the knowledge they need to develop their Canvas course utilizing variuos digital tools that are available to us through our district. I've decided to create this online course because I feel that teachers are able to learn these skills on their own, through experiementing, and since it's an online course they will always have this course to look back on to review, if needed. Each module will address a digital tool or two that will address how they can use this tool for warm-ups, video lessons, homework/vocabulary, quizzes/tests, and reviews. This helps learners build on their learning because they will be learning a new digital tool in each module along with how to incorporate it into their canvas course. Canvas is the LMS we have in my school district so they will learn how to incorporate this digital tool into their canvas as they are learning how to do something new in canvas each time. They will be completing practical exercises in each module that by the time they are done with this course they will have a vast amount of knowledge of canvas and how to use several digital tools within it. I'm still in the building stages of my course and I'm really excited about it and how it will affect teachers and their usage of technology in their classrooms. |
Jill HobbsMatthew 6:34 'Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.' Archives
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