Task 1: Please look at Figure 2-4 from Role of Interaction in Online Environments in Toward a Theory of Online Learning.
Write about the multimedia development in your project and how it fits within this diagram. or Tell us about your resource collection and how it will support your learners. Provide examples. Post your initial response by Saturday, February 28. Please provide a comment to at least one of your peers by Tuesday, March 3.
Task 2: Please help us create a professional resource that contains places to get visual and audio representations that help in the teaching of concepts and processes. Submit at least one entry.
My contribution: In my program (Tech Integration Basics for Teachers), I am aiming to create two areas of resources -- one teacher driven and one student driven. The teacher provided resources will be organized by category (which I am using as the six different ISTE standards) as well as by type: website, blog, academic journal, graphic, or video (at least those are the categories I've come up with so far). They will help explain the six ISTE standards from various perspectives and with authentic, real-world context. They will provide more background/description-style information. By organizing them into media/format categories, I am encouraging students with different learning styles to approach the material in a way that appeals and makes sense to them. Break it up also makes it appear less daunting. The student-driven resources are activities they have found or tried that highlight the six ISTE standards. These will serve more like an idea board or recipe book for activity implementation. By making this a communal document, it's my hope that the activity will not only encourage collaboration but will also serve as a useful hub of "tried and true" tech integration activities. It will also help the teacher-students feel more confident with technology because they will have understood, considered, and hopefully adapted/implemented the activity before sharing. Presenting both sets of resources as matrices will keep them organized, approachable, and digestible.
Reply to Peer: Nathan, this is a fantastic idea and one that I would love to propose to the staff in my district down the road. The use of Classroom in general has spread like wildfire quite organically, more than any other tech initiative that's been introduced. I think it's helpful in that it's pretty intuitive to use and makes the workflow so efficient and organized. Are the teachers quite comfortable with the screencasting task? Are they provided time to create these videos and participate in this course during the school day, or is it an extra add-on initiative? I certainly have always valued reciprocal teaching as a great reinforcement of skills with my students, and I think these videos are an example of that. The teachers' confidence will soar and it will undoubtedly promote community-building among the staff. I love this kind of communal resource-building!
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