thank you so much for your advices, I want to learn what kind of contents do you have in your angel platform (powerpoint, pdf, interactive material, quiz, video???? which one) Some of the things you mention come with Angel and some with Elluminate Blackboard. Since we are the Center for Distance Learning each course is designed on an approximately 80%/20% ratio...80% is done ahead of time...in my course that includes objectives, online lectures (which I wrote myself), asynchronous discussions, some pictures etc. It could also include videos etc. but we try whenever possible to use OER materials and I do not have videos in my course...others do. The synchronous interaction (Elluminate/Blackboard Collaborate) is built into the course and students access it from there. I can also give the link to outsiders who can join us too. If I teach two sections, they can be joined into the Elluminate session and my graduate students can join in too. There is provision for quizzes in Elluminate but I never use quizzes in advanced level courses...they are all writing intensive and at the top of Blooms Taxonomy (apply, synthesize, analyze, analogize etc.) Powerpoint is available through Elluminate. By the way Elluminate is recorded so students who cannot attend the live sessions can review what was said. Elluminate provides a written chat function and some students who lack a microphone use that, but it is not the best. It is essential for the moderator (i.e. instructor) to have a microphone. Angel has capacities for interactive material but I do not use them in this class.
and also wonder do you use the blog in the angel site or outside and how do you use it? Angel has blog capacities but is closed to all but the college students and a limited number of college personnel. I use the http://joycemcknight.blogspot.com for the blog site because I want it to be open to the world. It has a creative commons license...attribution only...I can call up the blog on the "desktop share" function on Elluminate
how do you use blog and assess the student usage of blogs? Students most use it to access community organizing information that I collect from various places and put in the blog. We also sometimes use the blog as a way to do collaborative writing. what kind of standarts do you use for blogging? I base course grades on attainment of objectives not testing or grading in the traditional sense so I do not have standards for the blog...it is actually mostly a way to share resources not only with students but other colleagues...like the wikieducator community...it is really just now in the development phase. also ı want to learn if you have some problems in synchronous chat? is it useful? also how do you use desktop sharing in what instructional goals? I will answer the last two questions in my next e-mail...By the way, wikieducators I am sharing this with all of you because I think it might be useful to more than Bulent. Thank you so much in advance :)
Bulent
Dr. Joyce McKnight
Associate Professor
SUNY/Empire State College (OERu Anchor Partner)
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Dear Dr.McKnight
thank you so much for your advices, I want to learn what kind of contents do you have in your angel platform (powerpoint, pdf, interactive material, quiz, video???? which one) and also wonder do you use the blog in the angel site or outside and how do you use it? how do you use blog and assess the student usage of blogs? what kind of standarts do you use for blogging? also ı want to learn if you have some problems in synchronous chat? is it useful? also how do you use desktop sharing in what instructional goals? Thank you so much in advance :)
Bulent
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Date: 02/24/2012 01:46PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Blended Learning activities using moodle
Dear Dr.McKnight
thank you so much for your advices, I want to learn what kind of contents do you have in your angel platform (powerpoint, pdf, interactive material, quiz, video???? which one) and also wonder do you use the blog in the angel site or outside and how do you use it? how do you use blog and assess the student usage of blogs? what kind of standarts do you use for blogging? also ı want to learn if you have some problems in synchronous chat? is it useful? also how do you use desktop sharing in what instructional goals? Thank you so much in advance :)
Bulent
2012/2/24 <joyce.mckni...@esc.edu>
Hello...sorry for the belated response to your question...I hope this is useful.
I teach Community Organizing at the upper level undergraduate and graduate levels and use blended learning all the time...mine includes an online course now based on the Angel platform...soon to be based in Moodle, a blog, twice weekly synchronous chats on Elluminate/Blackboard Collaborate and telephone mentoring. Since all of my students do individualized community projects we often combine Elluminate desktop sharing with web-sites found through Google as well...only rarely do I actually see my students...I have found that the best approach to blended learning is to think of all of these ways of connecting with students as potential vehicles for learning not as ends in themselves...you have to look first at your overall learning objectives and then at which combination works best for that purpose, you also need to make the whole process as student centered and student directed as possible. For example my students have the option of making the Elluminate sessions the major way they communicate with one another and with me and show that they understand the organizing process or they can work far more independently with just a telephone call to me during the semester and assignments in the online course that show they can apply the ideas to a project of their choice. Students choose their preferred approach based on their learning style preferences and on their personal time constraints. Dr. Joyce McKnight: SUNY/Empire State College (OER-u Anchor Member)
By the way, wikieducator friends please join me on my blog at http://joycemcknight.blogspot.com It is in a rather rough form but I am using it to store a bunch of good community organizing "stuff" and is open source.
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Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Blended Learning activities using moodleYou may want to look over the works done by the students of Dr.
N.Scagnoli in their Wikibooks Blended Learning in K-12 (
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blended_Learning_in_K-12/Blended_Learning_in_K-12
)
Jim Kelly
On Dec 26, 12:00 am, bulent dos <bulent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hello everybody,
> I m a PhD student and studying blended learning using moodle, is there
> anybody who wants to share ideas with me? is there a certain model for
> blended learning?what kind of materials can i develope? how can i
> enrich my website?
> thanks in advance
> Bulent DOS
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