It has been difficult to keep on top of everything. I had to work on grading, report card comments, soccer practice and get lessons ready for a substitute so I could attend the Leadership Conference in Thailand. Well I can see the end of the tunnel. The project is coming along. I think I will try to create a digital story for one of my assessment pages using the text I have as a script. Will also need to add the assessment blog pages to my class blog so I can try out the modifications I have made to this project.
The conference hotel, The Shanri-La, is quite nice forgot my digital camera but tried to aim my laptop out the window and used Photobooth to take some photos.
Cybercoaching was term I had never heard of before but in todays online world it is a perfect tool to use within and online or face to face situation. From an instructional design perspective it utilizes many of the components I feel is necessary in any teaching situation.
The use of a Backwards by Design model, where assessments are considered before the activities are created simply makes a lot of sense. The use of rubrics in a formative feedback assessment loop allows the students to examine more clearly what they are writing or creating and more important gives them the opportunity to fail so they can try again without being penalized and thus are able to construct real personal meaning.
I found it interesting when using word to track changes was mentioned as a tool that a Cybercoach might use to insert comments into a document. It reminded me of a collaborative group paper I did for a course a number of years ago. Emailing documents back and forth with multiperson tracking on so we could peer edit a document. We have a bigger selection of tools these days, Google Docs, Zohowriter etc. that would make this process easier. I think, however, the tool, a pencil, a Word document a Google document is insignificant when compared with an assessment tool such as a rubric or a design model such as this.
Another tool attempt with the RSS presentation for class. I am doing this as an experiment to better understand how I might incorporate Voicethread into my assessment project. Would it be interesting to have a number of people become part of a collaborative process on RSS feeds, to correct me, add information, add slides in between that bridged the gap between my thought processes, my knowledge and theirs?
Not sure yet but….you could use a thread to create, a collaborative presentation, for a jigsaw assessment, an assessment that asks the student to examine images and give an impromptu speech on each image or the image sequence.
Will Post questions and notes on what I find on the VT Diary
Review the course objectives and activities from the Casey course. Then decide which objectives and activities belong in which ‘Bloom’ category. This type of analysis will help you, not only develop your course assessment plans, but will also help you decide which assessment activities are most valuable. Continue Reading »
Another interesting week although my involvement with class discussions was a bit limited.
Our discussions focused on a unit plan and examination of the unit plan using Bloom’s Taxonomy. It had been a while since I had looked at Bloom’s Taxonomy. A newer version had been discussed on the a number of blogs I had read a while back. I like the layout of the newer version a bit better. I believe it fits better with my beliefs particularly with the inclusion of evaluation within a process on the way to the generation or creation or co-creation of knowledge. I also found it interesting how this particular taxonomy was attached to dimensions of knowledge in another article I found through the above link. The model gives me a concrete frame of reference that I can consider when designing activities for a unit.
It has been difficult to keep on top of everything. I had to work on grading, report card comments, soccer practice and get lessons ready for a substitute so I could attend the Leadership Conference in Thailand. Well I can see the end of the tunnel. The project is coming along. I think I will try to create a digital story for one of my assessment pages using the text I have
as a script. Will also need to add the assessment blog pages to my class blog so I can try out the modifications I have made to this project.
