cep 810

I am adding this to my blog just to remember this technology. I made this as a intro to a project in CEP 810

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7465135/video-lesson-cep-810

Wicked Problem Project

I wanted to design an online class to prepare the students for college and a better use of technology in the classroom.  I started with implementing a pretest, movie/tutorial and a posttest in my computer programming class. My school only offers one online class for the students and I felt this was a class that could be a good opportunity for the students. Being an elective course this could allow the students not only another elective but the opportunity to use technology and freedom to complete the State of Michigan’s online requirement.

This implementation will allow the students to be able to go back and review any tutorial/movies, assignments and presentations that they might need for a better understanding of the material.

Overall my experience went smoothly, the only bump in the road was that I did not set the date right on post test. The students were not able to access the test. After this discovery I went into Edline and fixed this and the student’s were able to complete the test. The response from the students was great. They enjoyed the freedom to complete this assignment online. They even asked for more of the assignments to be added to Edline. Some of them even thought it would be fun for them to make presentations and share them to Edline for further learning.

The evidence was the completion of the assignment and the positive feedback. The grades also showed that it was a success. They all scored above 80% on the post test and enjoyed the use of technology. No one had any problems using Edline or accessing the material posted (after I fixed the date).

I plan to implement more assignments and have this class up and running in the fall. Although it is too late in the year to offer this as an online class I will include all of the material online, this will allow a better opportunity for next years class. I will be able to monitor this class to find out if I need to change anything before I actually run a fully developed class online.

Click link to view my final WPP Presentation
http://msu.edu/~kronecks/wppfinalpresentation.swf

Group Leadership Final Project

What tool did your group use to deliver the PD tutorial? Why?  

Our group used SlideRocket as our tool to present our Group Leadership Final Project. To develop our short video clips we used Jing. We used iWisoft Flash/SWF to convert the (.swf) files from Jing to (.avi) files in order to upload the files to non-flash videos. Some of the videos that are used in our presentation are linked from YouTube. There is also a real-time Twitter link that displays updates.

 

What did you learn during the development process of the final product?

As a group we planned to use PowerDirector, a photo editing tool, to tie all the elements together. It was good for trimming the videos but we were not happy with the results. PowerDirector had limited features with less then perfect quality. Kit was familiar with SlideRocket, we decided to go with SlideRocket as our final presentation tool.

Kit and I had great communication during the entire project. We communicated through, email, post on discussion forums, web conferencing and cell phones. We never had a problem or miscommunication within our team. Kit and I discussed our group project and supported each other on other class assignments.

What would you do differently if you had to develop a similar product again?

Honestly, this was a great experience and there isn’t anything I would change. I am sure if there were more team members it would have been more difficult collaborating and dividing up the work. Since, there was only the two of us it was easy to communicate and complete the assignment.

Prfessional Learning Plan

http://kronecks.edu.glogster.com/personal-learning-plan-cep-812/

Data Visualization

What tools did I try?

I explored photoshop, google sketchup and wordle.

Photoshop was interesting to explore. A teacher teaches this in my class once per day. I was always interested in learning some techniques but never made the time.

Google sketchup is used to make 3D sketches. It seems easy to use and it is used in many different industries (architecture, construction, design, engineering, etc.)

Wordle creates word clouds. It allows you to type/paste text, add your URL from your blog, webpage or RSS feed. I typed in my URL to my blog, you can change the language, I tried to change my words to Japanese (my husband has been working there for the past year) it was not available. You could also do a word count, to see how many times the word was used in your text.

What are you representing in the visualization you created?

I decided to try glogster and made a glog about myself. Not very many tools are related to my classes but glogster had triangles, compasses, protractors and scales (rulers) to decorate my poster. As I was designing my poster I was thinking about how I can incorporate this into my class and I came up with a few ideas. This year I had my student’s do a traditional poster, each student was to research a different type of engineering position and now I am going to have them do it in glogster. I am going to have my students design a poster about them at the beginning of the year and hang them around the room. I will have them include things like family, sports they play, interests and what colleges they plan to attend.

Click link to view my glog kronecks

Poll Everywhere

I teach at a private school and we did not change our spring break to the beginning of April. We have been off since April 19 and will not return until May 2. I sent a text to poll a few friends/parents to view their results. This assignment has fallen on a bad week for me.

results….

Mobile Learning

What tools did you try?

I enjoyed exploring cell/camera phones and ipods in education. I feel these tools would be the tools I would like to incorporate into my class.

What ways are you thinking about integrating mobile technology into YOUR classroom?

I would like to incorporate Poll Everywhere into my classroom. I think the student’s would enjoy the in interaction in class and see the result immediately. I would like to use the poll in class for short answer or multiple choice questions. By viewing and discussing the student’s immediate results will make the assignments more exciting to the students. Although we have a ban on cell phones in class I plan to talk to my administration to see if I can test them out in my classroom. I feel there are appropriate times that cell phones can be incorporated into a lesson.

Camera phones in education. I think my student’s could use their camera phones to take pictures of products that they would like to design for their class project. They could also use this technology to capture bad designs. This technology could spike their interest and creativity. Being able to capture images and share those with the class could mean more involvement and collaboration. The student’s could take a picture of a product write about what is good or bad and add it to their blog.

What challenges (or inspirations) do you foresee?

The problem that I foresee is that the student’s will want to continue using their phones in class and will not want to use pencil and paper. That is not such a bad thing. I am going to compare how many students have cell phones to how many students have a pencil on them in class.

   

WPP Part D

• Formative: Did the project get implemented as planned?

My project was implemented as planned. From the feedback I had from other teachers at my school I was a little nervous about using Edline (Course Management System). I decided to jump right in and implement the project. My project consisted of implementing an online experience for my computer programming class. I posted a pretest, movie/tutorial/ and a post test.

• Summative: Evidence of success in addressing the problem of practice

The feedback from my student’s was positive. They enjoyed the experience and want to do more with online learning. The student’s showed interest in getting more involved with teaching each other through making movies/tutorials and submitting into a library for others to learn from.

• How would you approach another project of this type differently given what you’ve learned here?

After reading the comments of what other students in CEP-812 had mentioned in the last class I took their advice I started early and implemented it as soon as possible. I was lucky to have the support from my administrators to go ahead and implement the pretest, tutorial and post test as I seen fit to make this a successful project.

• What are the lessons learned that others might benefit from knowing about?

My biggest lesson learned was to, ” just do it”. Everyone learns by doing. I was afraid at first but then I was happy I went for it.

• In what ways will you endeavor to do the same project again, and what will you change or not do?

This was a great experience for my students and me. It was easy to implement and immediate result for every one involved. I plan to add lessons to Edline for my class and have my students get more involved in improving their online experience. The next time I post a test I will make sure that I have the dates and times set correctly. By not setting these controls correctly it did not mess the students up but it just would have been more organized. The students were to take the pretest the first night and watch the tutorial and take the post test the following night. The second night the tutorial was available for them but the post test had to be taken the following night.

Mobile Learning

As I learned more about using handheld devices in a classroom I was impressed at all the different ways they can be incorporated into a learning environment. My school has a ban on using any handheld device in the school which in turn makes it difficult to test any new ideas that I would like to try with them. Most teachers at De La Salle feel there are opportunities for student’s to embrace these tools but also feel it might be easier for student’s to share work or answers that should have been completed as an individual assignment. Our school only has two computer labs and the library has a few computers which are very slow. The student’s dread using them they say there is not enough time to even log onto them let alone get any work completed. The use of hand held devices would solve some of these problems if they were allowed to use handheld devices.

I think my student’s would benefit from using smart phones in class to record presentations, answer questions, collaborate with teacher’s/student’s, use of the calculator, record voice notes, take photos, use the dictionary and use research tools on the web.

Group Leadership Project

Part B

Storyboard and Script

Kit and I decided to do our project on WizIQ. We have been communicating through the discussion forum, WizIQ, prezi, emails and our cell phones. We have had a great experience working together on this project.

Kit has been working very hard on creating the storyboard and script. I gathered the information for the comparison chart and make tutorials for the presentation. Together we have completed our Part B of our project.

The most difficult part of our experience has been that there is only the two of us to divide the work between. In some cases this has worked out to our advantage. Kit is great with the creative part of the project and I enjoy doing the research and tutorials.

As kit and I continue to complete this project, Kit is going to be working on joining the information and videos that have already been created to develop our presentation. I will be making more tutorials to explain how to use WizIQ.

Click here to view our storyboard designed on prezi.




WPP Part C-Podcast



Edline

Click here to listen to my podcast

WPP Part C

My goal is to implement an online experience into my class.

Surprise

My surprise was how easy it was to implement the pre/post test and movie/tutorial on Edline. I found Edline to be much more user friendly then I thought it was going to be. I was actually a little afraid of how to implement this lesson into my class but I figured if I didn’t just do it I would never get over my fear. It ended up being a pleasant surprise.

Bumps in the road

The only problem I had was I forgot to post the post test date correctly. I had the setting set correct for the pretest but did not do it for the post. The students were able to watch the movie because I did not have the movie/tutorial set up with selected dates or times. It was set to watch it whenever they wanted to and as many times as they wanted to watch it. The tests were not set up like this. The one thing I would revise is to make sure I set the dates and times correctly.

Delights

After I reset the dates for the post test I had them take it the next night. The next day in class we discussed about if they had any problems finding their way around, what they thought about the system and if they enjoyed doing this at home rather then school. All of them agreed they liked this new experience. A few days later I was handing out their usual paper/scantron tests and they sighed with disappointment. One student asked, why are we not taking this test like the last one online? They also suggested that we should do projects in class where they make tutorials and post them on Edline so they would also be able to learn from each other.



One test qestion posted on Edline with results

 



Group Leadership Project: Part A Brainstorming

As a group (Kit and I) chose to try WizIQ.

WizIq Part A: Screenshot

http://www.screencast.com/users/mariafishell/folders/Jing/media/2cea26ac-e677-4059-87e5-65837dcf689e

WizIQ was easy to use similar to the adobe conferencing we use for our virtual class sessions. Kit was the presenter (she also used her camera) and I was the guest. We shared our screens, she used a video camera, we both could write on the white board to see immediate responses, use of our microphones were clear. Since there is only the two of us it was easy to agree on our project, meeting times, tools and we had time to play around with some of the features. We enjoyed our experience there were no disadvantages during our meeting.
WizIq Part B: http://www.screencast.com/users/mariafishell/folders/Jing/media/20bf54b0-d7f0-452f-beb8-bc82648de18c
Presenter:
http://authorlive.com/aliveext/LoginToSession.aspx?SessionCode=ENzVJyRi7GhX17to99H%2b5w%3d%3d
Attendee:
http://authorlive.com/aliveext/LoginToSession.aspx?SessionCode=V2PaJFk66A1GCkp2ZjzBGQ%3d%3d
Recorded Session:
http://authorlive.com/aliveext/Recorded.aspx?SessionCode=uEQxzn8SsdU%3d

WPP Part B

Technological Pedagogical (TP)

 Instead of the traditional classroom setting I chose to have my students do a simple lesson online. I will have my computer programming students take a pretest using edline on “variables”.  The pretest will be short, four or five questions.  Next, there will be a short video/tutorial link for the students to watch. Then the post test will be available for them when they are ready to take it. The post test will be four to five questions that I used on the pretest and answered in the movie they were assigned to watch.

Technological Content (TC)

The technological content will include using the computer, internet, edline, online tests and video/tutorial links. All of this experience is needed to be met for Michigan’s standards for online learning credit. Giving the students the experience in all different subject areas and using a variety of tools will give the student a better understanding and prepare them for college.

Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PC)

As of now the students only have one choice to take this class as a traditional class. By developing this class the student will have more choices and be developing skills at the same time. This will allow them to experience online learning using the course management system, navigating around to find information, organization skills and communication skills. The instant feedback on their quizzes is reinforcement for them. By this they can see their growth and if they need to reinforce what they learned the video/tutorial and tests are there for them to go back and review. Giving the students the freedom to do their work on their own time and not sitting in a classroom seems to be what they are looking for. This class also includes Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a curriculum designed approach to focus on all types of learners, by taking down barriers that may limit students.

Click on Link below to the Michigan Department of Education
http://techplan.org/

More information on Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

http://www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/udlguidelines

Web Conferencing Lab

1.      The web conferencing sites I explored were:

DimDim which is now Salesforce, there is no software to download, but they are not accepting new registrations.

Vyew The biggest downfall is it advertises with ads and will become annoying. It is free!

Mslive offers a 30 day free trial. It seems similar to Adobe and easy to use but there is a monthly fee. The site does offer a tutorial which explains their product better then the other sites.

2. Group 4 (Kit and I) chose to go with wiziq, we found it to be similar to adobe that we use in class.

3. As a group we met, shared our screens, chatted, used the whiteboard, and explored some of the features. We both enjoyed using wiziq.

4. Kit arranged the first meeting she had her camera set up everything worked smoothly.

Our second meeting my computer would crash every time I plugged the camera in. After the second time we decided to not use the camera’s.

I feel video conferencing will be a great addition to a classroom. As I dig into my new adventure next year with my Engineering classes I will be using this tool with my students to communicate our ideas with schools around the world. I think the whiteboard is great for English classes to use as a checking tool. Letting other student contribute to each others work and learn in real-time from one another.

Wicked Problem Project

 Part A

The important educational need is the graduation requirement in Michigan schools that requires that a student has at least one online course experience before graduation. I feel there is a need for online class development at my high school.  My school offers a basic technology class but I do not feel this class is adequate for the students to be familiar with online classes by the time they graduate or that it prepares them for a college level class. I took a poll in one of my classes to get feedback on the experience the students received in the class that is already developed at De La Salle. The feedback was not good, the student’s comments were, “it was not worth it,” “it was so easy they could have finished it in one day”, and “it was not beneficial.”

We need to keep our students up to par with other schools and the fast advances of technology. If students are absent a lot due to illness or have other obligations will benefit from this class. This will help students that might be homebound or students that are falling behind. The freedom for the student to work freely at their own pace and to complete work in other locations rather then a traditional classroom could be beneficial. An online class provides differentiated instruction for all grade levels. My focus is on high school students. Online classes will engage students in technology and independence. This will allow students to blend high school and secondary education and will allow for flexibility for the students and teachers.

A large amount of our students may absent due to illness, retreats, sports and other events that arise. I feel that an online class will benefit a vast amount of our students. The flexibility will prepare the students for the transition between high school and college.

I plan to target the educational issue with technology by doing my research on the Michigan online requirement for an online learning experience. My research will be on how to develop an online class for my students at De La Salle. This will allow students to participate in an online experience if they desire. Online classes offer students the flexibility, utilize technological tools and could offer a larger selection of classes I have never developed or taught an online class, this projects focus is to research training available for teachers, course management systems and the steps that need to be taken to develop an online class.

The scope of this project is to research what kind of training is available for teachers, I spoke with my administration and they are very excited and looking forward to the results of this research and I have their full permission to implement parts (survey of students, a lesson where the students experience the class online rather then in a traditional classroom) of the research into my class this year. I will be researching different types of course management systems, Moodle and Rcampus are free course management systems.

I will be using the internet to do my research. The site that I like the best is iNACOL.org, Moodle, Rcampus, edline, edutopia.org, mel.org along with input from other websites and teachers that have implemented some sort of online experiences into their classes.  One of our teachers here was using Moodle for parts of her class she found Moodle easier then Edline which is the system that our school is using.  Another teacher here teaches our online class http://nroc.careerforward.org it is a 4 to 6 week/20 hour class that can be used as a supplement to a class or used as a full online experience. He uses some of the material but also adds his own twist to assignments. This course is free and available to middle and high school aged students.

  

I plan to research which course management system I would like to experiment with, create a lesson plan for my computer programming class. My pre/post test and video will be posted on edline. Edline is our schools course management system. This will be given   to my students that are already enrolled in my traditional classroom. I will implement this lesson into my class within the next week. I have already practiced using edline added a test and video. I was able to take the test to make sure it was typed and presented correctly. I checked to make sure the video was linked so the students will not have any problems. First, I plan to enroll into some online training classes. I plan to continue to add material to this project until I can design a full semester class online. I know this will take sometime but it will be beneficial to the success of the class.

I will be able to measure the success of this by the student’s feedback and the by reviewing the pre and post test. I will discuss with my students what they liked and did not like about taking the quizzes online and watching a video rather than the traditional classroom activities. I will ask, if they liked doing the work on their own time better then being in the classroom? Was it easy to navigate around in edline? Were there any problems connecting to the video link? Do you want to do more lessons online? I will have my students answer these questions in the discussion forum.

My Video Bio

Funny thing with Technology

I used Audacity to record my podcast and added music from ccMixter for the background ground music. I started an account with podbean and uploaded my podcast.
http://kronecks.podbean.com/mf/web/5w73vs/funnythingswithtechnology.mp3

OnLine Teaching Experience

CEP 811

Sharlene Kroneck

Online Teacher Experiences

A webQuest would be one of the technologies I would be interested in implementing into my classroom. These webQuests can be used to research and learn about a topic. If the student was asked to find a webQuest and then evaluate it (like we did for our class) this would help them learn and compare to others to see how they could improve it. Then the student could make their own webQuest. I also feel an electronic portfolio would be a great way for the students to track their progress.

In my curriculum it is very difficult to find information on the skills we learn. It would be a great help to gather more information in my subject area. Although they (the guidelines) do not feel that a RSS reader is not an experience it would be a good tool for my students to stay up to date with the engineering industry. By designing a RSS reader and researching what is new in engineering would be a great tool for my classes.

The test preparation would be the most difficult to implement into my classroom. Most of my tests are designing parts using Catia, this would not be possible to implement. I am not sure how we would be able to do this in an engineering class. I could see how it could work in a classroom where there is multiple and true and false answers. It would be a great benefit for me as a teacher to be able to get these results.

Final Share Activity

CEP811

Sharlene Kroneck

Final Sharing activity

WebQuests were one of my favorite lessons in this class. I was not familiar with these and researching them was it a good exercise for me. I was pleasantly surprised that there was any available for my subject. The one I evaluated will be a great addition to my class. I plan to research for more of them that relate to my class.

The Instructional Design Principles is a good way to evaluate your lessons. These steps will help me keep me organized and make better lessons for my students. The way it was broken down into categories helped me to get a better understanding of what should be in a lesson. Using technology to involve a student keeps them interested and focused on the lesson.

Universal Design Learning included a guide to follow to improve on a lesson. This helped me in developing the STAIR project. Using the representation, action/expression and engagement guided me through to complete the project.

Web based technologies have helped me get a better grasp on what is needed to improve lessons and keep the students interested. Learning about WebQuest lessons, the STAIR project and designing a Web Site for my class was a great experience. These projects are much more desirable to the student’s rather then boring lectures and handouts. Yes, they take time and a lot of work but will benefit in the students learning.

I have been interested in making a video for my students but was not sure how to make an interesting and productive exercise for my students. This class has given me the confidence to experiment with technology and how to incorporate technology into my classroom. My personal goal was met in learning more about power point, camtasia, designing my own website.

My goal for taking this class was to learn more about technology and how I could bring more up to date lessons to my classroom. I now plan on researching and updating my lessons using the teaching strategies and technology (blog, power point, camtasia, web site creation, and weebly) I have learned in this class. As I take these classes, I demonstrate and discuss the assignment with my students to hear their feedback and give them a taste of what options they have when doing assignments and projects. After learning Prezi in CEP-810 I showed my students and one of them used it on an english presentation the teacher was very impressed and came to me to learn how to make a presentation. The boys also enjoyed the STAIR project with the interaction; I let them play with it on the smart board.  They were learning and did not even know it. I enjoy showing people what I have learned and plan to continue on integrating technology into my classroom/school.

Online Teacher Experiences

A webQuest would be one of the technologies I would be interested in implementing into my classroom. These webQuests can be used to research and learn about a topic. If the student was asked to find a webQuest and then evaluate it (like we did for our class) this would help them learn and compare to others to see how they could improve it. Then the student could make their own webQuest. I also feel an electronic portfolio would be a great way for the students to track their progress.

In my curriculum it is very difficult to find information on the skills we learn. It would be a great help to gather more information in my subject area. Although they do not feel that a RSS reader is not an experience it would be a good tool for my students to stay up to date with the engineering industry. By designing a RSS reader and researching what is new in engineering would be a great tool for my classes.

The test preparation would be the most difficult to implement into my classroom. My tests are designing parts. I am not sure how we would be able to do this in an engineering class. I could see how it could work in a classroom where there is multiple and true and false answers. It would be a great benefit for me as a teacher to be able to get these results.

My Wiki

https://cep811kroneck.wikispaces.com/

Wikipedia

I added information about the Robotics Club to the De La Salle Wikipedia.

Universal Design for Learning

This was a great lesson. The examples were clear and to the point and short. When filling out the checklist it would have been confusing to me without being able to veiw the examples. I feel my type of class does match with a lot of the UDL lab by presenting, demonstrating, hands on activity, and choice.The barriers are the voice activation, animation and interaction. I am excited to implement this into my classroom.
Here is a copy of my checklist
<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1N7vCghBSupKLNuNiVPSDaCidbt_LPzb3yOL5AwA546Q&amp;embedded=true"></iframe>

MERLOT (share activity)

Engineering

“How everyday things are made”

Quality of Content

I love it! This site had different types of manufacturing, how things are made and what they are made out of. At the beginning it has a mini quiz just to get your mind working. The questions were fun, one was about how long it takes to make a jelly bean or how many pieces are in a Boeing 777. There are so many products to choose from it was amazing.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching- Learning Tools

The video even showed the history on manufacturing and a vey quick video of the manufacturing of the plane. The video was quick moving with music this will keep my students attention. I would show some of these videos along with the pre and post tests for the explanation stage of engineering. I like to go around the room and talk about how parts are manufactured and this will be a perfect fit. The interaction between the questions and the student will keep the interest of the student. The student will be able to identify different manufacturing processes, blow molding, die casting, punching, and bending.

Ease of use

There are tabs to make it easy to navigate around the site and many options to choose from. The user does not get trapped easily (even I didn’t). I found it so interesting I wanted to keep researching to see what I could find. The responses were usually correct or incorrect for the pre questions. I would have liked it to give me a correct answer but it did mention you will get the answer during the examples. The information was laid out very well for the students to follow. If a student wants to know what steel was mad out of and what it looks like before a process you could find a way to go back at see a picture or a video. I felt the material was attractive because of the many types of products, materials, and processes there are to learn about. There are options for if you are interested in books, need to look at the frequently asked questions, online tours and technical problems.

rss merlot

http://screencast.com/t/EJU5FuBgWk
Here is a picture of my rss with Merlot added.