Lesson 6: E-Portfolios
E-Portfolios is a valuable learning tool
in which all students should understand how to work this tool. This esteemed
resource tool will help tell the story and describe personal reflections as
well as educational knowledge. E-portfolios are divided with in three
categories, for students, instructors and organizational portfolios. All will
help with the create ventures for advertisement. I will focus on the student
and what ways they can work with this unique digital tool. E-portfolios will
help to tell the story for students to give an over view of their backgrounds,
accomplishments, skills, and some create ideas of exactly who they are. The
personal reflection will invite individuals to learn who they are and also have
questions for them to challenge their expertise. This digitized portfolio will
hold a number of resources and accomplishments for the student. The student can
manage their entire career and educational accomplishments. Last of all every student
should understand the value and how to work with this descriptive tool which is
available for students to use for discussion or promotions.
Lesson 7: Learning Theory and Instructional Concepts
This lesson presented concepts to help
one learn and understand about learning theories and how individuals actually
learn. One valid question is pose to learners and instructors for online
classes. What really makes the classes the content or the way the instructor
present the content? Good question, I feel both are important and will help to
establish learning. The technology helps to improve the learning within a
timely manner and how it’s presented is key. Take for example learning how to
take a blood pressure; a student can read about it, look at a movie, but hands
on are the key. Learning modules today will help to advance this skill with
audio technology. The audio sound of a heart beat and the normal range comes
together. This is an instructional concept that can help the instructor teach
and advise students how to affectively take a blood pressure. Therefore
instructors must know the principles of learning and what is expected of
students and what learning styles are out there.
One
learning style is the behaviorism; this style looks at how to control certain
behavior in class or online. Behaviorism is not always positive and some behavior
is destructive and allows barriers to exist; preventing both parties from
learning and teaching. When online, one’s behavior is learned by the way they
write and what style of writing the individual have. Take for example one
student in our class is very sarcastic, some of the comments are weird, not
funny and often the comments does not relate to the subject. But when I had an
opportunity to actually speak to the individual; I got a different impression
of the student. Expression and behavior is key to presenting one’s self;
however online classes can only present what is written. Learning how to answer certain behaviors can
be challenging. Children are rewarded as well as adults. Adults often act out and want attention and
online classes will be challenging to correct.
Lesson 8: Implementing the Seven Principles
The seven principles for good practice
were actually presented in lesson 7. These are guidelines that will help to
support and improve learning and teaching for students and instructors. However
I will go over the principles and concentrate on the one that means a lot to
me. The following principles are
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Encourages contact
between students and faculty
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Develops reciprocity
and cooperation among students
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Uses active learning
techniques
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Gives prompt feedback
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Emphasizes time on
task
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Communicates high
expectations
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Respects diverse
talents and ways to learn
The last principal understanding and
respecting diverse talents is important to me because every one learns and
teaches in unique ways. What is considered the norm? Is there really a normal
way to learn or teach? Normal is whatever works for individuals. Diverse talent
will help others think beyond the appropriate dimensions. One example of
diverse learning is when students are granted free range to express themselves
when working on projects for class. Take for example in nursing I was able to
work on a project with obesity. Although the data was important and vital for
learning when I presented the PowerPoint in class. I noticed the students
became offended and some were uncomfortable and started to move down in their
seats. This offended me and I was sorry I picked the topic of obesity. After
the presentation my classmates came up to me and said, “ I’m going to lose
weight real soon”. I was not judging
them but they took the message wrong. This is a prime example of respecting
individual talents not actually going well.
Lesson 9: Online Technologies and Content Resources
Technologies and resource content
helped out for the group project. In this section the group learned how to use
Wiki and compose a Rubric for our annotated bibliography. This project was very
interesting because we had to write on technology from the website about static
and multimedia images. The Wiki tool is great for group communication and
helped to express the work of all on one page. Each individual had a page that
corresponded with the topic in this case it was the annotated bibliography.
This can be utilized for personal usage, work or school. For example if I was
planning a party and I wanted to make sure everyone participated and on the
wiki page; the food and gifts can be distributed between the parties involved.
The rubric was challenging; often students are not aware of how much work is
involved in designing a rubric. A rubric can be analytical or the content needs
to be clear with allocated points for each section. This created some issues
because standards and guidelines were supposed to direct the outcome of the
project. Overall the rubric was completed. Rubrics are important for students
this helps them to stay on course.
Online Collaborative classroom
The last online collaborative session
was a lecture illustrating how to design an e-portfolios. This demonstration
helped to clear up questions concerning what order and what should be placed on
the site. The lecture was informative and the visual content was clear. Overall
the session was helpful.
