Friday, February 26, 2010

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!!

Thursday, February 11, 2010

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!

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Friday, February 5, 2010

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.