Principals for an e-tivity "unit 2 activity 6"

E-tivity's principals

1. Decide in advance what the teacher is expecting from the students to do and what the tutor or e-moderator will do.
2. Make sure that they understood what you are expecting from the e-tivity.
3. The evaluation or assessment has to meet the purpose of the e-tivity.
4. Provide e-tivites that motivates your students instead of just motivate them to simply log-on.
5. Set short-term goals and make sure that there’s a flow of actions.
6. Divide the e-tivity up into chunks.
7. Make sure that the e-tivities are focused on sharing, elaborating or deepening understanding
8. Let them work in teams to achieve the learning outcomes. 

Electronic pages "unit 2 activity 5"

Description of learning environment

So far I have worked with Blackboard, I think that it is easy to use and well organize, it depends on the teacher though.  Cause I have taken some subjects with another teacher, and he was not leading the students correctly, or like it supposed to be done.

And it needs a discussion forums, e-mail, and folder for the reading material, system evaluation, and bulleting board, goals, calendar, grades, course information.

Plan to develop an online course "unit 2 activity 4"

Plan to build my online course

1. Documents to include

·      Letter of welcome for each new student

·      General info. About online learning, technology requirements, and the resources available to students for technical help and for obtaining the proper software ad internet services required for the course

·      Information about how to access the course on the we, and how to navigate it successfully

·      Students log-in and password information for course web site

·      Rules procedures, and help for use the interactive tools

·      A course syllabus- preferably on public pages so that prospective students can see what they are getting into advance- including tutor contact information

·      A course overview, schedule

·      Instructions about activities, assignments and deadlines

2. Learning objects

·      Electronic mail

·      Discussion board

·      Chat utilities

·      Instant messaging

·      Video games

·      Quizzes

·      Self grading

·      Synchronous audio

Electronic communication, emoticons and E-tiquette "unit 2 activity 3"

A)ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION

Which mode of electronic communication will be most important to me as an e-tutor?

For me it’ll be better “one to one” because we can know how our student is progressing how our student is learning and we can have a complete record of how he/she is doing in the learning process, though it could be a little bit difficult for the ones that don’t have to much time available due this offers little flexibility in terms of time.

B) EMOTICONS

1. Emoticons that I commonly  use

:-p = Just kidding          :-) = happy       :-( = sad           XD = happy

2.                               2  A frustrating difficulty you have been having with CMC

I really hate the fact that since I wasn’t impose to this kind of learning, I usually forget the dates when I have to post some activities, thas when responsability comes into play. :-p

C) E-TIQUETTE

Criticism for the mail

1.     He is talking about more than one topic.

2.     He didn’t put any title on it.

3.     He didn’t address the matter in a calm manner.

Criticism for the posting

1.     Misspelling

2.     Inappropriate comments

3.     Is confusing

explaining the model "unit 2 activity 2"

Theory and Practice of Online Learning

This model talks about two ways of learning where the first one being a distance education “E-learning” but teachers and students are the most important participants and they have to be interacting each other either synchronized or unsynchronized, and it can be through computer conferences, chats, etc. this method helps students to have a personal developments between participants.

On the contrary independent student may use computer tutorials, drills and simulations, but they are not help by any teacher, but colleagues, family members and friends are the ones helping them to acquire the knowledge.

I think that we have to combine both, because we have to be autonomous in some areas of our learning, but in some others we might need help and there is when teacher’s help comes into play.  

T. & Elloumi, F. (2004). Theory and Practice of Online Learning (pages 48-52)

concepts of distance education "unit 2, activity 1"

DISTANCE LEARNING DEFINITIONS

1 "The acquisition of knowledge and skills through mediated information and instruction, encompassing all technologies and other forms of learning at a distance."

USDLA

2 “Distance education is planned learning that normally occurs in a different place from teaching and as a result requires special techniques of course design, special instructional techniques, special methods of communication by electronic and other technology, as well as special organizational and administrative arrangements"

by Greg Kearsley (1996)

3 “The process of extending learning, or delivering instructional resource-sharing opportunities, to locations away from a classroom, building or site, to another classroom, building or site by using video, audio, computer, multimedia communications, or some combination of these with other traditional delivery methods." The ITC definition http://www.uwex.edu/disted/definition.cfm

REFLECTION UNIT 1

what I liked from this unit is that we could understand the pros and cons of either TRADITIONAL or DISTANCE education, and their importance,  I believe that we as future teachers we have to understand very well what a distance education is, because as we have been noticing everything point to one thing "distance education is the future school"