Socrative Quiz

My room number is Eliz1.

Quiz number Soc-18403465.

This quiz is an assessment quiz to see how much distance educators know about assessing students. There are many types of assessments and some of this applies to face-to-face learning as well. There are many facets to education, but assessment is only one portion of it.

Concept Mapping of Distance Ed Communication

This is how communication occurs in Distance Ed. vs a F2F classroom.

Infographic

Here is my infographic. This is a summary of what leads to student success in online teaching. I picked three things: learning outcomes, learner perceptions, and interactions. I would have picked overcoming barriers, but I am choosing to do a longer paper on that topic.

Week 3 presentation on Distance Education

Here is a short PowToon on the beginnings of Distance Education. The concept is something new and has been around a little longer than we first thought. Enjoy.

Best Practices

The topic for my paper will be barriers to distance education. The following subtopics will consist of: lack of funding, special education students, poorer school districts that have little to no access to technology (whether it's in or out of school,) and rural school districts that have a lack of online class options in their region.

During my research, I expect to find the following "best practices."

"10. Training of students and instructors learning and teaching at a distance is related to effectiveness and satisfaction."

"11. Technical support for students and instructors is critical."

"12. Distance education can be advocated because of the convenience afforded and the autonomy provided to learners"

"15. Computer competency is related to student success in distance education. "

References
Simonson, M. R., Smaldino, S. E., & Zvacek, S. (2015). Teaching and learning at a distance: Foundations of distance education. Charlotte: IAP. Retrieved September 13, 2015.

My experience with Distance Education

My first experience with distance education took place in high school. I had to post various projects from home onto website and create blogs and webpages. I also had to post and reply on different forums in group projects, critique sessions, and to critique others' work that were in different sections of the same course. My first experience with e-learning however, came in late elementary/middle school as my school had the access to ease us into the process. When my school upgraded their computers and infrastructure at the end of my middle school years, my class even got introduced to programming. (At the time, our new computer teacher went back to programming theory and made us do assignments on paper before she let us play around with the new computers. She wanted the class to know why things worked, how computers came about since ancient times, etc. and that was really trying to middle school students but her lessons did have a purpose.) When we finally did log onto our computers, we actually knew how flowcharts related to algorithms.

By the time I started college, I immediately enrolled in classes that were available online. It felt natural for me to do so. A studio class (film production, radio) I would take as a face-to-face course, but those are offered online as well.

I find online learning easier because I can log in and do the work and log off. Sometimes I find myself working ahead. I have been in courses where my peers have worked a few weeks ahead of time. However, I still find a few drawbacks. I feel that as a society, we are used to instant communication, especially with new ways to communicate coming out everyday. I feel that people become impatient or take too long when communicating, especially during projects. Communication errors (or a lack of communication) could cause team project disasters. I have been on a couple of teams where the end product didn't end up as well as it should have or team members ended up dropping or being removed, leaving more work for the remaining team members.

I also understand that people work in different time zones, but there are so many platforms now that people can use to collaborate that make life easier. Google Drive is amazing (and other similar platforms) where others can edit, save and have the finished product in one place without waiting for one last person to submit a document or an image right before the deadline.

Week 4 Blog Post - Technology Integration and Web 2.0 tools

Your initial post for Week 4 will revolve around Web 2.0 tools and potentially spur ideas for your project.  In the comment phase of this round of reflective blogging, we will throw in some empirical research for discussion.

There is a model of technology integration called the SAMR model.  Here is a link to one description (https://sites.google.com/a/msad60.org/technology-is-learning/samr-model) of this model.  If you find this to be insufficient, a simple Google search will provide more resources.

However, your post this week will simply be a detailed response to this question:  What could you do in your class (or workplace) with a (i.e., any) Web 2.0 tool that would equate to each of the four levels of the SAMR Model?  That is, how could you use a Web 2.0 tool as a Substitute for current lesson, to Augment a lesson, and so on.

To clarify:

• I want one example of each (S, A, M, and R) from your current or future work situation.
• Please clearly state your situation at the beginning (e.g., I teach 10th grade social studies) of your post.
• No, you don't have to use the same tool for each example.
• No, you don't have to use the same lesson for each example.

Please have your initial post completed by 11:59 PM on Feb. 8.