We gave it a try now our students love Sakai!
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We gave it a try now our students love Sakai!
John Harper & Geoff Burrows
School of Agricultural & Wine SciencesCharles Sturt University
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SummaryBotany
– First Year subject – Approx 50 students on campus & 100 DE students
–Interact• Announcements – Active engagement with students• Blogs - Introductions• Wikis –collaboration – dictionary ; mnemonics• Test Centre – Formative assessment• Chat room – chat with each other & lecturer• Forum & subforums – questions; organisation• Resources – Lectures; quizzes; past exams; links…..
– Podcasts – headsup!
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–Interact• Announcements – Active engagement with students
New resources hints on studyFun learning community
“Reach out and Touch somebody!”
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• Blogs – Introductions……
– 1% carrot– I got to know the students better and they learned
about each others aspirations and backgrounds and fears!
– Some study groups formed
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• Wikis –collaboration – dictionary ; mnemonics
Dictionary in our own words:
Micropyle: Point where pollen tube enters ovary. Also, later becomes the opening where water taken into seed for germination
A small hemeroid?
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A joint project between Team Botany and students
Unit 1Very Small Dogs Sniff Feet – Vascular tissue, Sporophyte Dominant, Seed, FruitEvolutionary leaps from mosses to angiosperms. Mnemonic- thanks to my mum’s dog Benji
Kids Playing Chicken On Freeways Get Squashed:Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
All Good Pterodactyls Like Broccoli: Angiosperms, Gymnosperms, Pteridophytes, Lycophytes, Bryophytes
Botany Mnemonics
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• Test Centre – Formative assessment
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• Chat room – chat with each other & lecturer• Forum & subforums – questions; organisation
– Needed to remind students that I wasn’t ‘waiting’ in the room for their questions!
– Organised times for chatting via chat room organiser – subforum
– Requests for chats with me or others
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• Podcasts – headsup!• Resources – Lectures; quizzes; past
exams; links…..
Verbal Directions
Pod casts of past exam answers
Double Fertilisation
Tutorial
Double Fertilisation
1. Label the diagram in the next slide
2. List and explain the key steps involved in double fertilization and its outcomes. Starting point is the 2 nuclei (1 & 2 in the diagram on the next slide) approaching a structure that contains 8 nuclei.Note the two nuclei in 1 & 2 are different from those at the top of the diagram
Double Fertilisation exam Question
Double Fertilsation explainedAnimation
• http://www.emunix.emich.edu/~ghannan/systbot/NewFiles/animation%203801.swf
After viewing the animationTry the exam question
Supermarket Botany!
See: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/grahamcentre/education/
“Just a pinch of this underground stem in your curry……”
What the students say………….“ I felt part of a learning community”
“I knew that my questions would be answered quickly”
“I love the exam answer keys”
“I put the verbal directions on my mobile..”
“I’ve discovered that learning can be fun!”
In summary
OK so Interact may be a bit clunky but it is lightyears ahead of the forum for enabling a learning community
I’m looking forward to Sakai 3!
John