Lesson 5 Highlight: 10/31-11/13

Lesson 5

• Lesson Moderators: Team 5

11/02 Wednesday

• Due: Team 4's Lesson 4 discussion gradesheet

11/03 Thursday

• Due: 1st posting period: At least one or more entries to Google Sites

11/06 Sunday

• Due: 2nd posting period: At least one or more entries to Google Sites. Total three entries in the first week.

11/10 Thursday

• Due: 3rd posting period: At least one Diigo comment/response.

11/13 Sunday

• Due: 4th posting period: At least one Diigo comment/response. Total at least two Diigo comments/responses in the second week.
• Due: Assignment 6: Group Treatise Paper (Section I, II, & III/IV)
• Due: Lesson 6 Reading

Reminder: Web 2.0 Technology Training: Tuesday & Wednesday

Want to learn how to integrate Web 2.0 technology to support your teaching?

ETC 647 students are providing Web 2.0 Technology Training on November 1 & 2.  Please join us to learn new Web 2.0 technology for teaching and learning.

All training sessions are hosted on Elluminate.  You do not need to sign up for the sessions.  All sessions will be recorded for later access.  You can access this and previous semesters'' recordings at: http://www.delicious.com/chihtu/ETC647+Elluminate+Network+Training

 Date: November 1, Tuesday, 6-7 pm Arizona Time  

Title: Kerpoof

Speaker: ETC647 Group 4

Facilitator: ETC647 Students

          Where: Elluminate: ETC Virtual Space.

More information/Flyer

 

Date: November 1, Tuesday, 7:15-8:15 pm Arizona Time  

Title: Delicious Stacks"- a new flavor, still Delicious

Speaker: ETC647 Group 1

Facilitator: ETC647 Students

          Where: Elluminate: ETC Virtual Space.

More information/Flyer

 

Date: November 2, Wednesday, 6-7 pm Arizona Time  

Title: VoiceThread

Speaker: ETC647 Group 3

Facilitator: ETC647 Students

          Where: Elluminate: ETC Virtual Space.

 More information/Flyer

 

Date: November 2, Wednesday, 7:15-8:15 pm Arizona Time  

Title: Using Mobile Learning: The Next Step

Speaker: ETC647 Group 2

Facilitator: ETC647 Students

           Where: Elluminate: ETC Virtual Space.

            More information/Flyer

 

Unit Proposal Notes

Thanks for many of you shared your unit ideas with me!  Here are the notes to share with you to help you to improve your unit proposal, design, and development.

Q: What content is appropriate?

A: Our unit content could be anything that we would like to instruct and deliver online to adults as professional development.  Just remember that our content and instructions must be delivered online via any CMS/LMS.  If it is not a complete only unit, at least more than 3 quarters of contents and instructions/activities should occur online.

Q: Is it must be a professional development (PD) unit?

A:  Yes, it must be a PD for teachers, staff, administrators or PD for employee trainings or any adult learners. We will have a chance to design an online unit for students in ETC647.

Q: Can I change my selected CMS/LMS from the Assignment 2 LMS/CMS Evaluations in Lesson 1?

A: Yes, you may have better understanding in CMS/LMS now so you may change your mind in selecting different tools for your final unit.

Q: What are the most common mistakes that previous students made?

A: Focusing on the online content development only.  Remember effective technology integrations include four components: Content; Delivery Technology; Instructional Strategies; and Assessment. Content: Developing online content is not hard with LMS/CMS.  Deliver technology: what tools you intend to in LMS/CMS? Discussion board, Chat room, assignment submission, grade book, blog, group space etc. Instructional strategies: referred to online/distributed instructional strategies, such as online collaboration, online student publishing, online resource sharingetc. Assessment: Need to assess whether your learners learn the content via your unit; to asses whether your integrate delivery technology effective; to assess your integrate online instructional strategies effective.

Want to learn how to use Elluminate to deliver presentations?

See tutorials at: https://sites.google.com/site/etccommunity/elluminate-tutorials

Common Feedback for Assignment 4 Diversity Research Paper

Thanks for your assignments!  Most of you have done a wonderful job and are able demonstrate clear understandings on diversity issues.  Here are some general feedback comments for your future reference.  Be sure to consider these comments and apply them to future assignments, failure to meet the requirements may result in a grade deduction in the future assignments.

 

• Reflections: It is important to include your own reflections in your paper.
• Quotes: The most common mistakes that I have seen are that students copy directly from the original papers or the abstract or use too many directs quotes.  These errors prevent the text from flowing smoothly and prevent it from making sense, providing evidence that the author did not digest the content and obtain a comprehensive understanding of the literature.
• Research-based: After reviewing the literature in diversity issues and distributed learning, you may find that generally a superior quality of papers are found in refereed journals versus online articles, conference presentation papers and proceedings.  Students are encouraged to obtain papers from referred journal papers as opposed to conference presentations or papers, if possible.
• APA: Follow the APA style format. Examples.
• Title Page: A cover page for the assignment is not necessary.
• Page Numbers: Each page should be numbered except the first page.
• First/Second Pronoun: Avoid using the first person pronoun.  Not all scholars agree with this argument but people agree that unless we have good reasons to use first pronoun, otherwise, we should avoid using it for research paper.
• One-sentence Paragraph: Avoid one sentence paragraph because the logical reasoning doesn't flow.
• In-text Citation: In-text citation should be "...learning (Johnson, 2008)." Not "… learning. (Johnson, 2008)" Notice there the "." locates.
• Cite what you read: Only cite the literatures that you actually read it.  If you did not read the article, books, chapters etc. Do not cite it because it is considered as plagiarism.
• DL Focus: Many did not clearly identify the issues in "distributed learning" context rather than in fairly general technology integration context.
• Writing Papers resources
• Resources shared by students: All cited references should be bookmarked on Delicious with required tags.  Your Delicious should include the required tags so the link will take the reader directly to bookmarks for this assignment.  Our link should look like: http://delicious.com/username/etc677+Diversity+Assignment not http://delicious.com/username.  Without tags, people will see all our bookmarks on the Delicious.  You can see ETC677's students' shared bookmarks at http://delicious.com/tag/etc677+diversity+assignment

 

Here are a few questions for you to deepen your thoughts in online interaction research.

 

• Do you believe there one ideal and effective instructions suite for various typed of online learners their uniqueness? Are we able to provide multiple instructions to suite for different learners?
• Any critical issues to be concerned when online materials comply with ADA?
• How could we resolve rural and urban differences?  Do they learn differently?
• Is online learning more effective for adult learners?
• Is technology neutral to all online learners?
• Can mobile learning resolve digital divide in distributed learning?

 

 

Online Learning Satisfaction Survey

Dear Fellow Graduate Student:

My name is Moussa Tankari and I am a doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Instruction with focus on Educational Technology at Northern Arizona University. I am conducting a research on culture and student satisfaction with their online learning experience. I am hoping that you could help me with my research by completing some quick and easy questionnaires that will take approximately 10 to 15 minutes of your time. The online questionnaires include a cultural orientation section, a section on student satisfaction with online learning, and a demographic section.

To qualify to participate in this study you need to be at least 18 years of age and currently enrolled in a graduate study program at NAU. If you meet these criteria and you are interested in participating, please follow the link below to the website to complete the questionnaires. There is no more than risk encountered in everyday life in participating in this study. You are free to withdraw your participation at any time, and your responses are completely anonymous.

This research project has been approved by the NAU IRB. If you have any questions you can contact me at my email address: mt296@nau.edu. You may also contact my dissertation Chair, Chih-Hsiung Tu, Ph.D. at Chih-Hsiung.Tu@nau.edu.

By clicking "Yes, I agree to participate", you give me consent to use the data in my research and you will be directed to the survey. By clicking "No, I do not agree to participate", you will exit the survey. (https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WPQQBG3)
  
Thank you very much for your time.
Sincerely,

Moussa Tankari, C&I Doctoral candidate

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Northern Arizona University 

PO BOX 5774

Flagstaff, AZ 86011

Email: mt296@nau.edu

Phone: 928-523-8031

 

Lesson 3 Discussion Grades & Feedback Posted

See BBLearn grade book & e-mail for the details. Questions? Contact me within 2 days!

A4: Diversity Paper Grades & Feedback Posted

See TaskStream & BBLearn for the details. Questions? Contact me within 2 days.

See the ETC677 Lesson Discussion Statistics

 at: http://etc677nau.wetpaint.com/page/ETC677+Lesson+Discussion+Analysis

Congratulations to our class Achievement

Lesson 3 discussion broke the record.  It has the highest average posting per student in this semester, 11.87 postings vs. 10.47 (Lesson 1), & 10.07 (Lesson 2).  Additionally, it is the 3rd place in ETC677 historical records, 15.82 (Spring 2010), 13.46 (Spring 2011).

Section II Treatise Outline Grade & Feedback Posted

See BBLearn E-mail & grade book for the details.

Delicious Tagging Scheme Update

You may notice that Delicious recently has a major change on the interface and the update on tagging scheme.  When you tag a bookmark, we need to use a comma to separate two tags or a comma and a space.  For example: ETC677, Lesson4

When you search bookmarks with tags in the URL, we will use “+” between two tags. For example: http://www.delicious.com/tag/ETC677+Lesson4

I hope this will help you to tag your bookmarks to share with our class community.

 

Web 2.0 Technology Training

Want to learn how to integrate Web 2.0 technology to support your teaching?

 

ETC 647 students are providing Web 2.0 Technology Training on November 1 & 2.  Please join us to learn new Web 2.0 technology for teaching and learning.

All training sessions are hosted on Elluminate.  You do not need to sign up for the sessions.  All sessions will be recorded for later access.  You can access this and previous semesters’’ recordings at: http://www.delicious.com/chihtu/ETC647+Elluminate+Network+Training

 

 Date: November 1, Tuesday, 6-7 pm Arizona Time  

Title: Kerpoof

Speaker: ETC647 Group 4

Facilitator: ETC647 Students

                Where: Elluminate: ETC Virtual Space.

More information/Flyer

 

Date: November 1, Tuesday, 7:15-8:15 pm Arizona Time  

Title: Delicious Stacks"- a new flavor, still Delicious

Speaker: ETC647 Group 1

Facilitator: ETC647 Students

                Where: Elluminate: ETC Virtual Space.

More information/Flyer

 

Date: November 2, Wednesday, 6-7 pm Arizona Time  

Title: VoiceThread

Speaker: ETC647 Group 3

Facilitator: ETC647 Students

                Where: Elluminate: ETC Virtual Space.

 More information/Flyer

 

Date: November 2, Wednesday, 7:15-8:15 pm Arizona Time  

Title: Using Mobile Learning: The Next Step

Speaker: ETC647 Group 2

Facilitator: ETC647 Students

                Where: Elluminate: ETC Virtual Space.

            More information/Flyer

 

Wednesday's Elluminate

We have added more time slots for Wednesday's Elluminate. Be sure you have working mic & speakers.

Sign up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak2hmofyxKPkdG5wTUwxN0hocVRmZ2p4VDU2LWFSRnc#gid=0

Elluminate: http://elm.elluminate.com:80/NAU-Institution/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1247974819584

Entering Academia: The Perfect CV

Come to this workshop to learn what makes a successful curriculum vitae.

Thursday, October 20, 3:30 – 4:30pm, Cline Library, Room 200 Sponsored by Graduate College, NAU

 

Room is still available!  No need to RSVP.  Please forward this on to anyone who may be interested!

 

Extended Campus Students and those not able to attend in person may web conference in at the following address:

 

http://elm.elluminate.com:80/NAU-Institution/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1247977521411

L4 Highlight: 10/17-30

Lesson Moderators: Team 4

10/19 Wednesday

• Due: Team 3's Lesson 3 discussion gradesheet

10/20 Thursday

• Due: 1st posting period for Lesson 4 discussions : One posting at least: Respond to discussion question,

10/23 Sunday

• Due: 2nd posting period for Lesson 4 discussions : One posting at least: Respond to discussion question and/or respond to others' postings.
• Due: Team 4 post discussion question.
• 03/14-03/20: Spring Break; No required instructions

10/27 Thursday

• Due: 3rd posting period for Lesson 4 discussions : One posting at least: Respond to discussion question and/or respond to others' postings.

10/30 Sunday

• Due: 4th posting period for Lesson 1 discussions : One posting at least: Respond to discussion question and/or respond to others' postings.
• Due: Assignment 3: Group Treatise Paper Outline (Section III & IV)
• Due: Assignment 5: Distributed Learning Unit Proposal
• Due: Team 5 DO NOT NEED TO post discussion question.
• Due: Lesson 5 Reading

Notes to improve diversity paper

Some notes for you to improve your diversity paper

 

• Reflections: Include your own reflections in your paper.
• Quotes: Avoid applying too many and/or large chunks of direct quotes. It may weaken your arguments.
• Research-based literature: Peer-reviewed journal articles are considered as main literature resources to cite.
• APA: Follow the APA style format. Here are some APA examples for your references: Examples.
• In-text Citation: In-text citation should be "...learning (Johnson, 2008)." Not "… learning. (Johnson, 2008)" Notice there the "." locates.
• Title Page: A cover page for the assignment is not necessary.
• Cite what you read: Only cite the literatures that you actually read it.
• DL Focus: Many did not clearly identify the issues in "distributed learning" context rather than in fairly general technology integration context.
• Writing Papers resources
• Resources shared by students: http://delicious.com/tag/etc677+diversity+assignment

 

Learn how to use Elluminate

See: Elluminate Q & A

Educause Online 2011 schedule posted

Mark your calendars! The Educause Online 2011 Conference begins on Wednesday, October 19, and runs through Friday, October 21. For a complete listing of the sessions in which we'll be participating, see the schedule for each day posted on Confluence at https://confluence.nau.edu/x/SwJsAg. Login with your NAU userID and password, and then join us in theITS Annex Conference Room, Building 54A.

Many of the sessions will be video streamed live from the conference in Philadelphia, including General Sessions with keynote speakers each day. There will also be online-only expert discussions, and a virtual exhibit hall. We will be watching the presentations as a group and interacting with fellow participants through chat.

You are welcome to bring your breakfast, snacks, and/or lunch – stay for one session, or all day. Coffee, tea, and a few snacks will be provided.

 Let me know if you have any questions, and feel free to pass this on!

Georgia Michalicek
Academic Computing Consultant

Information Technology Services

Northern Arizona University

PO Box 5100

Flagstaff, AZ 86011

Ph: 928.523.8862

FAX: 928.523.7407