2.6 Instructional Design
Candidates model and facilitate the effective use of research-based best practices in instructional design when designing and developing digital tools, resources, and technology-enhanced learning experiences.
Artifact: Engaged Learning Project Blogging and Beyond
Reflection:
The Engaged Learning project, Blogging and Beyond, was developed in the ITEC 7400 class, 21st Century Teaching and Learning.This artifact was designed as a professional learning class for teachers that would meet four weeks for 2 1/2 hour sessions each time. The teachers in the class created a blog site on the Wordpress site. They developed a standards based lesson to utilize their blog site with their students. They collaborated in small groups to design and customize proper “Netiquette” guidelines for the use of their blog with their students. In addition to planning, designing, and implementing their blog site, they evaluated classroom and teacher blog sites using Engaged Learning indicators in preparation for their blog.
This artifact shows mastery of the 2.6 standard because the lessons included creating, designing, posting comments, audio, images, and/or video, and creating a poll for their blog site. They corresponded through the blog site with another teacher’s class within our class and/or another teacher’s class in another school on a curriculum based subject of their choice. I learned so much through the development of this class. I learned how to embed code for images, polls and videos.This was the first time I had taught a class that included middle and high school teachers. Several of the high school teachers wanted to have separate pages for each class period. Wordpress does not allow you to do this, but Edublog does. I will probably give teachers the choice of which site they prefer next time. Also, when I offer this course again, I will send them the directions for setting up their blog before the first class. Some teachers did not receive access to their blog site until later the next day. This caused them some concern that they were going to be behind. I think sending the directions ahead of time will prevent this from happening. After the class was over, the teachers filled out an evaluation. Many teachers commented that their students were very excited about commenting on the class blogs, as well as seeing what their classmates had written or commented. The teachers felt any time you get students excited about reading and writing, there will be improvement. Some of the teachers had also received positive comments from parents, as well. Another option would be to have a blog site for teachers to interact and collaborate with other teachers. They could give advice and get feedback from each other on various learning strategies. Teachers learned and implemented in their classrooms a new digital resource that increased student's writing and communication skills. The impact of this student learning was evaluated by analyzing students' classroom writing samples, benchmark writing samples, and end-of-year state writing assessments.
The Engaged Learning project, Blogging and Beyond, was developed in the ITEC 7400 class, 21st Century Teaching and Learning.This artifact was designed as a professional learning class for teachers that would meet four weeks for 2 1/2 hour sessions each time. The teachers in the class created a blog site on the Wordpress site. They developed a standards based lesson to utilize their blog site with their students. They collaborated in small groups to design and customize proper “Netiquette” guidelines for the use of their blog with their students. In addition to planning, designing, and implementing their blog site, they evaluated classroom and teacher blog sites using Engaged Learning indicators in preparation for their blog.
This artifact shows mastery of the 2.6 standard because the lessons included creating, designing, posting comments, audio, images, and/or video, and creating a poll for their blog site. They corresponded through the blog site with another teacher’s class within our class and/or another teacher’s class in another school on a curriculum based subject of their choice. I learned so much through the development of this class. I learned how to embed code for images, polls and videos.This was the first time I had taught a class that included middle and high school teachers. Several of the high school teachers wanted to have separate pages for each class period. Wordpress does not allow you to do this, but Edublog does. I will probably give teachers the choice of which site they prefer next time. Also, when I offer this course again, I will send them the directions for setting up their blog before the first class. Some teachers did not receive access to their blog site until later the next day. This caused them some concern that they were going to be behind. I think sending the directions ahead of time will prevent this from happening. After the class was over, the teachers filled out an evaluation. Many teachers commented that their students were very excited about commenting on the class blogs, as well as seeing what their classmates had written or commented. The teachers felt any time you get students excited about reading and writing, there will be improvement. Some of the teachers had also received positive comments from parents, as well. Another option would be to have a blog site for teachers to interact and collaborate with other teachers. They could give advice and get feedback from each other on various learning strategies. Teachers learned and implemented in their classrooms a new digital resource that increased student's writing and communication skills. The impact of this student learning was evaluated by analyzing students' classroom writing samples, benchmark writing samples, and end-of-year state writing assessments.