Week 3 Housekeeping:

• Blog posts are going well

• Still a couple having trouble opening

• Are you checking the comments on blogs?

• Name posts by week

• I am going to use my blog space as a storage area

• Keep blog for your CV

ICTs for learning design

Week 3Today we will review;•Unpack the assessment due 21 April 2013•Group 1 tools – blogs, wikis and static websites. •eLearning – how do we integrate ICTs into learning design?

Assessment 1

The big picture- Gary draws on the whiteboard

Your requests:

Unpack assessment – Analysis of digital technologies due Friday 12 April 2013.

Assessment Examples from 2012

How will your work be assessed?

Thinking strategies that help scaffold learning: • PMI- You are invited to work with a partner to create a PMI for blogs.

• SWOT- Next construct a SWOT analysis of digital pedagogy as you know it now.

“The teacher can no longer be regarded as the sole source of learning, nor can students be assumed to have the same core knowledge.............. There has been a power shift such that learners are now able to be responsible for their own learning. The role of the teacher has become one of facilitator rather than expert. And learning is able to be individualised for each student.”

Is this your view of teaching?

A twiki issue!

What in th

e world is a

wiki?

Are they more useful than Blogs?

Wikis in plain English

Blogs Wikis Websites

Generally static. Cannot be added to by students.

Usually only a single author who ‘posts’

Students can add comments and

ideas

Not chronological.

Can be added to and changed in

any order.

Students can add comments and

ideas

Can have multiple authors

Can have multiple authors

Suit a variety of purposes and

uses

Can have multiple authors

Pedagogical hint:

Writing comments in blogs

Technical hint: Using images from websites.

• press print screen on your keyboard• open Paint.net software on your computer• click on edit• paste on page• select the cut out tool and drag around the image you want to copy• copy and paste into your document or webpage• or save as a particular type of file eg jpeg• work safely, legally and ethically by identifying the source of your image.

Learnonline http://weblearn.weebly.com/critical-thinking-ideas.html

strategies to support critical thinking in Blogs and Wikis

Y-Chart

s

KWL chart

Free Online

Graphic Organiser

s

Fishbone Analysis

Multimedia and the web – how do locate and use these resources?

Linking pedagogy.

Hints how to create your own resources.

For those reading ahead – there is a lot in this week’s activities, so concentrate of the compulsory activities, and selectively explore the rest.

Next week: Week 4

Activity 1: Creating a Blog - Reflection

You have already created your first blog, and are going to continue to use this Blog in your construction of Assignment Task 2. This activity asks you to reflect on your learning about blogs.

Activity 2: Creating a Wiki It is now time for you to build your first Wiki - there is a ‘how to’ tutorial to help you along.

Activity 3: Creating a wiki - blog reflection In your blog, create a new posting reflecting on the learning potential of a wiki in your context. As should now be embedded in your practice, be sure to consider the legal, safe and ethical requirements in

working in a wiki. How will you support the development of these habits in your students?

Activity 4: Creating a website – link with instructions for using Weebly A link is provided in the Engagement section to assist you in this task.

Engagement Activity 5: Creating a website - blog reflection

Reflect on the functionality of a website. What did it allow you to do?

Activity 6: Participate in, and contribute to online tutorial The link for this is being established in Moodle and will be email to you when available.

Engagement Activity 7: Work collaboratively on Quiz responses To support your approach to the Multiple choice quizzes, a set of pages in our group wiki has been established with

some sample questions. You are invited to add your name to a page, and over the next three weeks, work collaboratively to negotiate the most appropriate response to each question. Your lecturers will drop in periodically and add comments.

In the Lab – Engagement Activities