End of one road, beginning of another....

The assessment course has now come to a close and I wanted to post my final reflection. I appreciated the course and overall found it to be very useful.  One of the issues that I have is a graded number of reponses to others discussion.  We are a huge AFL district and grading on behavior is a step backwards.  I will tweak this reflection to other's postings for my classess and have students reflect/provide feedback for others intrinsically instead of grading on a behavior! I have found the rest of the course to be very useful!  Please check out my final project at vogds.weebly.com

Final Project

http://vogds.weebly.com/

Please check out my link above for assessment online integrated in the class I teach at UW-Whitewater to pre-service teachers, Methods of  Teaching Accounting.

I will take any and all feedback!!

Brenda

Week 6--Where did you go??

I had a rough, rough week six. In fact, I didn't even know I missed it till it was over. Hopefully my final project will be a great way to make up for it!!

Phew!

I take back my previous post....the most difficult thing this week was getting that chart to post!  WOWSERS!  That was tough. I had to go back to my old school HTML knowledge to clean it up!

Not sure why.

Bloom categories	Learning objective verbs	Activity
Knowledge (recall, list, define, identify, collect, label)	Define Seek	Define ethics, Define Libel, Define taste Students will identify what was the Sullivan ruling?
Comprehension (summarize, describe interpret, predict, discuss)	Distinguish Understand Discuss	Students will distinguish between private  and public people Students will write an informative essay that addresses how the patriot act affects journalists. Students will discuss the ethical dilemmas journalists face Students will work in groups to share their research
Application (apply, demonstrate, illustrate, classify, experiment, discover)	Apply	Students will find examples of coverage that redefine what is considered to be obscene, indecent or profane and they will present their findings to the class
Analysis (analyze, classify, connect, explain, infer)	Explore Analyze Explain	Students will write a persuasive essay where they explore this issue Students will work in small groups to analyze the following scenario in regards to ethics and taste Students will analyze a 6-point Code of Ethics for Journalists Students will lead a classroom discussion where they share and analyze their findings
Synthesis (combine, integrate, plan, create, design, formulate)	Generalize from given facts	Students will write a persuasive essay supporting or rebutting her theory
Evaluation (assess, recommend, convince, compare, conclude, summarize)	Support	Write an essay to support your stand on the issue

Week 5-Assessment

On Sunday our group wrapped up our midterm project. I began this week's assignments a little late but judging by the discussion board, so did others.  The piece of this assignment I found challenging was that it appears as though Casey's ideas where not very well organized. It was difficult to sift through what he had all listed and as a student, I think I would be very challenged by that.

I liked the reference to blooms within course creation and assessment  because I think it's essential for understanding to make sure to include all the levels of blooms in a class-whether it's online or not!

Assessment Tools Wikispace

Follow this link to our group midterm assessment.

http://assessment-tools.wikispaces.com/

Group Assessment Mid-Term

The last two weeks have been very interesting in terms of our group project.  The beginning of  the project was a little sketchy as it took sometime for us to get organized about where we were going to do our collaboration.  However, the project came together well. Each team member did their portion of the work and collaboratively we brought the project together well. I also appreciated that our group didn't feel "pressured" to race to get things done. Each person could do their work at their pace and contribute.  That's one of my favorite parts of online education!!

Personally, my confusion lied around the learning objectives. I didn't feel like this section was as clear as it could have been. I may need to go back and do some additional reading on this. 

Concept Mapping Activity

Reading Reflections

Edublogs, for example, are a format that encourage collaborative learning and provoke higher order thinking skills. (Lee and Allen, 2006)

Blogs have a lot of potential in the world of online learning-specifically assessment. As most school districts continue to look for ways to incorporate 21st Century Skills, Blogging is an easy way for teachers to use technology to assist students in asynchronous self reflection. Blogging also allows for students to participate collaboratively in each other's learning. Students and teachers are able to post comments and reflections in response to other students learning. It is also a great way for students to assess where they are located in relation to their classmates.

Disadvantages of blogs--

When compared to other Web 2.0 technologies such as wikispaces, blogs are limited in the sense that they operate with one person leading the conversation or reflection and then students/teachers commenting. This one way form of communication can be limiting if students don't ask other students for comments. Another disadvantage of bloggin can be time. A teacher must decide which tools will benefit their students the most and then integrate those. It can be difficult for teachers/students to remember to update and reflect/respond to others blogs.

Edublogs as an online assessment toolgooglepages.com

Class WIKI

uwassessment.pbworks.com

Please follow the link above for access to our class wiki.

Reflections

I have always loved the idea of using a blog in a way to not only self-reflect but to have others openly be able to comment on your reflections.  The biggest issue I see with a blog is that it is one more thing for you to have to remember to update and check.  When time is an issue one must decide which pieces of technology they are going to use and keep up.  We just can't do everything!

Welcome!!

Welcome to my blog.  This is a great way to get students to journalize and reflect in a public forum so that they can share their ideas in with the world!

Partner Interview

Brenda lives in Cedar Grove, WI, and is currently working as the Technology Coordinator for the Kettle Moraine School District in Wales, WI. She has one amazing child, Sullivan who is a 2.5 year old boy and certainly is on the go often, and is also expecting her second, due May 24th.

She also teaches for UW-Whitewater in their Business and Marketing Education program.

She is working on her PhD so her interest in Online education lies in her dissertation work. She is writing on perceptions of online education. She also recently worked on a feasibility study with the KM district and will be working with the Superintendent and HS principal to implement an online program for the fall. Where they are going to use the UW-Stout courses for their staff's professional development so she is working her way through them as well.

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It is my pleasure to introduce Katrina Steiner.

Katrina currently teaches HS online through a company called Nexus. She have been teaching online for 5 years now. She is married for almost two years now and will be hopefully moved into her house by April. She lives in Algoma, WI and hopes to have some children in the near future.

She started the Stout program because she was looking for license renewal courses and thought it would be a great addition to her skills to add the online teacher certficate.

Welcome Katrina!!

Brenda from Cedar Grove

I began my E-Portfolio on a pbworks page. Please follow this link to check it out!




http://brendavogdseportfolio.pbworks.com/