On Readings and Exemplar Courses
In developing my course information documents, I realize that there is much more to think about besides the format, how the course is set up-information about lectures, assignments, tests, aural training-my expectations and the the schedule. This module’s readings have helped me think about the potential students in my course. Their thoughts/concerns, limitations with technology they may have and questions they bring with them. Scorza’s article has given me some important things to consider as I move in the direction of creating a class community. The tone of the classroom, the way I present material and the atmosphere I create through my course development activities and my individual lessons and activities are all important to the success. The discussions this week so far bring up many interesting thoughts, ideas and questions about online teaching and learning including which activities will provide the greatest learning experience, to creating the correct balance between on and offline activities, to how to create multimedia presentations into online learning. I have browsed several examples of online courses and can see how successful courses are outlined, planned out and have gotten many examples of different types of activities to include. In addition to adding material related to aural training skills in music theory, I also would like to develop some kind of online theory workbook where students can complete drill and practice assignments…….(4)
June 28th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Good!! excellent post. but to make it better you need to bring is something new/more and be more specific what interesting thoughts ideas and questions came up for you? what did you learn from the observations? what will you use or adapt or apply from that activity to your own course?
your comment on scorza’s article left me wanting much more. I wat to know what important things you are considering as a result… why is tone important, why is the way you present material relevant… how does that relate to assumptions you have about your future online students? what does the did you know video have to do with that? THINK! DIG!
Here is a thought… is this all relevant ONLY to online teaching and learning environments?!
you need to make your thinking more visible to me. show me details and specifics of how you will apply, interpret, use what you are learning and how you are processing the course content, activities, discussion, etc.
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suggestions to improve this blog:
-you need to categorize your posts: try using course modules as categories.
-also add tags to further describe each individual post.
-add the link to my blog to your blogroll : ) Makes navigation around all the class blogs much easier.
-where is your “about” page?
June 28th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
shoot for 2 blog posts per module – one at the end of each week. you can do more than 2 but 2 need to be at the end of the week so that you can do a proper reflection of that module weeks activities and content.
review the blog assignment questions to guide your reflections.
review the rubric : )
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