Saturday, January 31, 2009
Class Wiki's
Our class has two wiki's. The first was created so that we could formulate rules of netiquette for our online classroom. The second was created this week so that all of member of class could post their blog's url.
Friday, January 30, 2009
What I have learned about educational blogs and how they will apply to my course planning.
Educational blogs can be an easy and time efficient way to update and maintain contact with students. They can also offer the reader quick access to additional information if the writer links the article to other sources. What I like about the linking within a blog is that when used properly, it can be a very nice demonstration of critical thinking skills for the author and help the reader learn to link the material and search outside of the original article.
Educational blogs will now apply to my course planning by implementation into my courses . I teach a class in child maltreatment and I could see how a blog could be a very nice way to provide additional support in the educational setting. The topic of child maltreatment is very complex and we often run out of class discussion time. I could see how a blog could be a great way to continue class discussion or even be a gathering point for information (though I think a wiki might be a better tool for the information gathering). Further, I could see the benefit using the blog creation as a great tool for the students to learn from just by creating their own blogs. The downside to this is that my student’s sometimes lack the necessary “verbal filter” that would be needed when writing to a global audience, so I would need to make sure I provide them with guidelines regarding what would be appropriate for their personal blogs.
Educational blogs will now apply to my course planning by implementation into my courses . I teach a class in child maltreatment and I could see how a blog could be a very nice way to provide additional support in the educational setting. The topic of child maltreatment is very complex and we often run out of class discussion time. I could see how a blog could be a great way to continue class discussion or even be a gathering point for information (though I think a wiki might be a better tool for the information gathering). Further, I could see the benefit using the blog creation as a great tool for the students to learn from just by creating their own blogs. The downside to this is that my student’s sometimes lack the necessary “verbal filter” that would be needed when writing to a global audience, so I would need to make sure I provide them with guidelines regarding what would be appropriate for their personal blogs.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Assessment: Teacher-centered or Learner-centered?
I agree with my results [that I am strongly learner-centered]. I believe that because I come from a social work background, I naturally try to help people help themselves. However, as a new faculty member, I tried to adopt the teacher-centered orientation at the advice of another faculty member. Ick! It did not work for me at all and did not work well in my classroom. One month into the semester, I ditched those methods and went back to my learner-centered approach. It worked much better and definately improved the feel of my classroom.
The first assignment for Assessment in E-Learning: Partner Introduction
https://uwstout.courses.wisconsin.edu/d2l/orgTools/ouHome/ouHome.asp?d2l_stateGroups=grid~gridpagenum~mycoursesstategroup&d2l_stateScopes=OrgUnitSession~GridPageNum~Search~PageNum%5EOrgUnitUser~LCS~MyCoursesStateGroup%5EUser~Grid~PageSize~HtmlEditor~HPG&d2l_statePageId=273&d2l_state_grid=mcg103~0~~Asc~~0&d2l_state_gridpagenum=mcg103_pgN~0&d2l_state_mycoursesstategroup=mcg103_tree~&ou=875456
"Good Morning All, It is my pleasure to introduce Tammy Gorski to our class. Tammy shared that she is a faculty member at Northcentral Technical College in Wausau, Wisconsin. Where she teaches in the Human Services Associate Degree (2 year) program, which includes the following classes: Introduction to Counseling, Introduction to Human Services, Issues in Family and Child Maltreatment, Field 1 and Field 2 (Internship classes). Tammy also shared that she was an Advanced Practiced Social Worker in the State of Wisconsin.
Tammy loves to read, and has two young children. Tammy and her husband recently complete an addition to her home which doubled the size. Tammy also enjoys working on her farm, she shares as a “hobby for fun” Tammy lives in Mosinee, Wisconsin and she shared that if you imagine Wisconsin looking like a mitten, she was in the middle or about 2 hours north of our capitol, Madison. I asked her if she could live anywhere in the world where would it be? Tammy responded “There isn't anywhere else in the world I would rather be living. I love where we live. We have everything we need and have been blessed with wonderful family and friends. Even though it is a whopping 15 degrees F today, it is a beautiful day. I love our four seasons (not the "seasons" my husband describes: bow deer hunting (September - November), gun deer hunting (November), ice fishing (December to February/March), field work (April-August), fishing season (whatever time is left from May to June).”
-Joy Schiele Assessment in E-Learning Student
"Good Morning All, It is my pleasure to introduce Tammy Gorski to our class. Tammy shared that she is a faculty member at Northcentral Technical College in Wausau, Wisconsin. Where she teaches in the Human Services Associate Degree (2 year) program, which includes the following classes: Introduction to Counseling, Introduction to Human Services, Issues in Family and Child Maltreatment, Field 1 and Field 2 (Internship classes). Tammy also shared that she was an Advanced Practiced Social Worker in the State of Wisconsin.
Tammy loves to read, and has two young children. Tammy and her husband recently complete an addition to her home which doubled the size. Tammy also enjoys working on her farm, she shares as a “hobby for fun” Tammy lives in Mosinee, Wisconsin and she shared that if you imagine Wisconsin looking like a mitten, she was in the middle or about 2 hours north of our capitol, Madison. I asked her if she could live anywhere in the world where would it be? Tammy responded “There isn't anywhere else in the world I would rather be living. I love where we live. We have everything we need and have been blessed with wonderful family and friends. Even though it is a whopping 15 degrees F today, it is a beautiful day. I love our four seasons (not the "seasons" my husband describes: bow deer hunting (September - November), gun deer hunting (November), ice fishing (December to February/March), field work (April-August), fishing season (whatever time is left from May to June).”
-Joy Schiele Assessment in E-Learning Student
The Beginning
January 28, 2009
My very own blog! If someone had told me eight months ago that I would be creating and writing my own blog, I think I would have been very surprised. Since September 2008, I've turned from being technology illiterate to being someone who embraces the opportunity to learn new technology and use it in my classroom. It's so much fun to share with my students what I am learning. Some of them are skeptical, but I like to think that my enthusiasm is contagious.
Tammy
My very own blog! If someone had told me eight months ago that I would be creating and writing my own blog, I think I would have been very surprised. Since September 2008, I've turned from being technology illiterate to being someone who embraces the opportunity to learn new technology and use it in my classroom. It's so much fun to share with my students what I am learning. Some of them are skeptical, but I like to think that my enthusiasm is contagious.
Tammy
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