Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Planning for Action Research
•Initial planning for action research
includes:
•Identifying and limiting a topic
•Gathering information related to
the topic
•Reviewing related literature
•Early stages are crucial in any research
project
•Lays the “groundwork” for all that follows
•Nothing shapes the remainder of a study
as much as specifying the topic or problem
•Problems with being too broad or vague,
or being too narrow
•Possible topic areas:
•A teaching method or
instructional materials
•Classroom management
•Identifying a problem
•Examining an area of interest
•Once a topic has been identified, it
should be evaluated against several practical considerations:
•Personal interest in the topic•Importance of the topic•Time requirements for conducting the study•Anticipated difficulty of the study•Potential monetary costs•Issues related to ethics in conducting research
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/mertler4e/study/default.htm
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Spring Blog Festival 2015
Spring Blog Festival (SBF) is a one day event that will take place on Saturday March 21, 2015. The aim of the festival is to showcase bloggers and their work. The links to the webinars and content of the presentations will be available in the courseware.
Topics range from transformational blogging and reflective blogging to connectivity, history, evolution, teaching tools, multi-media, thinking & creativity, families, schools, and content curation.
Presentations of the Spring Blog Festival
Topics range from transformational blogging and reflective blogging to connectivity, history, evolution, teaching tools, multi-media, thinking & creativity, families, schools, and content curation.
Why You Now Need a Team to Create and Deliver Learning - e-Learning Feeds
Why You Now Need a Team to Create and Deliver Learning - e-Learning Feeds
"There are ample issues to consider, for example a team-based approach could raise the possibility of more affordable business models: Core content could be repurposed or remixed. The use of teams and pooled resources (even with other institutions or consortia) could help deliver the basic content and do much of the heavy lifting of teaching a given course.Another big advantage to the team strategy is that having multiple team members fosters diverse perspectives. Decision making power shifts to a team of people, not just one person; this brings in additional and potentially fresh ideas. Teams may delegate the responsibility of tracking certain trends to member X or member Y; they might even add a new "hat" to the collective team membership if they want to employ a new technology that's been on their radar screen."
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Teaching with Technology
Course Description
The course offers new, veteran, and future teachers theoretical and practical knowledge on how to teach and learn using technology. The course will include weekly synchronous live online classes, course material, and video tutorials.
Participants will learn about and apply:
- E-portfolios (blogs, websites, wikis)
- Learning theories
- Transformational learning
- Transformational teaching
- Teaching as a way to learn
- Project-based learning
- Collaborative learning
- Instructional design theories
- Assessment theories
- Reflective practice
- Blended learning
- Blended online learning
- Teaching in a live online class
- Course design
- Syllabus development
- Lesson plans
- Course and Learning Management System
- Micro teaching
Created by Dr. Nellie
Monday, March 2, 2015
Action Research Spiral
Any systematic inquiry conducted by
1. teacher researchers, principals, school counselors, or other stakeholders …
2. in the teaching/learning environment …
3.to gather information about how their
particular schools operate,
how they teach, and how well their students learn.
Research done by teachers for themselves
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