SCR 22 Task Force on State Educational Technology July 9, 2015.
Task 4.3 27 july
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Rounding up and Finishing off
Ideas for Finishing Activities
Farewell Message
Photo Gallery
Parting gifts
Awards
Needs: Voice board or podcasting site
Needs: digital camera, email, Slideshare
Needs: web, email
Needs: Course site
Parting Gifts: poems, links, recipes, …..
• http://armorgames.com/play/6137/crush-the-castle-2/
‘There are holes in the sky where the rain gets in, but they’re ever so small, that’s why rain is thin.’
Spike Milligan
Photo gallery
• Post a photo of something relevant to the course, or someone
• Post a brief explanation
• Tutor puts all the images in one presentation & adds captions: names and key words
Final project
(Bill Student )
hours of fun!
• Idea from ‘Teaching Online’, Hockly & Clanfield, 2010
Farewell Message
• Record a message saying ’goodbye’ to the group
• Post it to a voice board
• Once everyone has left & listened to the messages, tutor rounds off with a closing email
Examples:
Congratulations on finishing the course
One memorable task Highlight of the course
• Idea from ‘Teaching Online’, Hockly & Clanfield, 2010
Course Awards• Group comes up with a list of ‘Course Awards’ - must be same
number as participants Examples:
• Fastest poster
• Funniest comment
• Most thought-provoking question
• Best avatar
• Longest post
• Mr/Ms Tech Savvy
• Best organised
• Most visual person
• Most useful advice
• Most technically improved
• Everyone posts an award from the list on a message board of names until everyone has one.
Brought to my attention by Nikky Salmon
Beyond the course:
Online discussion groups
1. “Webheads is a world-wide, cross-cultural, and vibrant online-community of educators with an open enrollment for anyone who wants to join”
Practising teachers who discuss online teaching & learning. Links to lesson ideas, conferences, blogs…
http://webheadsinaction.org/about
2. SEETA (South Eastern Europe Teachers Association)
A site with a major interest in teaching online. Blogs, webinars on a variety of topics eg. Adapting your coursebook with technology, teaching with online digital games ….
http://www.seeta.eu
Further online training
EVO free courses: (Electronic Village Online)
2012 sessions included a variety of practical topics: moodle for teachers, digital tools with a purpose in the classroom, podcasting for the EFL classroom, creating and manipulating audio
You can also access past sessions
Live sessions take place in January - February.
Register in January
http://evosessions.pbworks.com/EVO+Previous+Sessions
Online Synchronous ConferencesA regular one is the IATEFL conference.
It takes place in a different UK city each year
Liverpool, April 2013
• Major presentations are streamed with forums for discussions and much more
• http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2012
Blogging and Micro-blogging
Many blogs to select from:
1. We’ve already been referred to some of Nicky Hockly’s blogs.
Thought-provoking and practical. Here’s one on using video
http://www.emoderationskills.com/?p=97
2. Here’s one for teacher trainers
http://elteachertrainer.com/category/teacher-training-2/
Micro-blogging
Twitter Follow people involved in the field
Edmodo Twitter for Education http://www.edmodo.com
An Edmodo ‘class’ can be set up.
ePortfolios
• This final project will form the start of our own eportfolios
• It is summative assessment at the end of our course, but will also stimulate ongoing development of our skills as e-moderators.