In order to demonstrate how I contributed to the learning of others, I have selected three key artifacts. The first artifact that I have chosen is a blog post demonstrating a blog site that I set up for my grade 5 students. It was fortunate that I had just started using a class blog with my students so that they could share their learning. On my blog post titled “Class Blogging = Powerful Learning,“ I was able to share some of the red tape I had to go through to in order to get a class blog site set up for my students. It was interesting to see how we canuse tools on the internet to allow students to engage in peer-to-peer teaching.Some of my students “chose” to create a video to teach other students how to do a specific task. It is evident that when students make a choice to engage in an activity, a higher level of learning will take place. Teaching itself, can be a powerful way of learning.
Additionally, I was able to share, on my
blog, information that my students shared with me and other classmates. Powerful learning can take place when students are given opportunities to blog. It is evident from comments left on my blog post, that other members of the OLTD group can see the benefits of setting up a class blog. Additionally, it demonstrated the importance of students sharing their learning with their peers. As educators it is important that we open up to the concept of sharing. In order to create
powerful online learning environments, educators need to be will to openly share their knowledge and resources with colleagues.
Additionally, I was able to share, on my
blog, information that my students shared with me and other classmates. Powerful learning can take place when students are given opportunities to blog. It is evident from comments left on my blog post, that other members of the OLTD group can see the benefits of setting up a class blog. Additionally, it demonstrated the importance of students sharing their learning with their peers. As educators it is important that we open up to the concept of sharing. In order to create
powerful online learning environments, educators need to be will to openly share their knowledge and resources with colleagues.
The second artifact that I have chosen to demonstrate how I contributed to the learning of others is a blog post I made regarding a couple of Open Education Resources. Although there are several Open Education Resources, I chose to focus on two specific OER’s. The first OER was Khan Academy and the
second OER was cK-12. Based on the responses for other members of the OLTD cohort, my review contributed to their
learning.
The third artifact that I have chosen to demonstrate how I contributed to the learning of others was my Week #5 - Blog post. After participating in a synchronous meeting with guest Steven Downes, I did some further research on a website that Steven made reference to. According Lisa Lane there are three types of MOOCs: Network based MOOCs, Task based MOOCS and Content based MOOCS. Although each type of MOOC has a more dominant goal, they all contain the three elements. Based on the responses for other members of the OLTD cohort, information I collected from Lisa Lane’s blog contributed to the learning of members of the OLTD
cohort.
cohort.
The fourth artifact that I have chosen to
demonstrate how I contributed to the learning of others is the many resource post I made to the OLTD 505: Open Educational Resources Google+ group. As I did some of my own online research each week, I posted links to articles I found useful. As each week focused on a different topic, I was able to find. Here is a link showing all the post that I made to the OLTD 505: Open Educational Resources Google+ group.
A fifth artifactn that I have chosen to demonstrate how I contributed to the learning of others is a Google doc that I created in an effort to create a reference page for effective presentation tools that we can use as we continue through our OLTD Learning Journey. Below is a document that I posted on in the OLTD 505: Open Educational Resources Google+ group. My goal for creating this document was to create a list of
online presentation tools that we (OLTD 505 members) have used or attempted to use and give our opinions of them so it would be easier to select an online presentation tool in future OLTD courses. Additionally, I thought it would be good to able to share this list with the next OLTD group starting in September. The main emphasis with the creation of
this document was to “share” our ideas and opinions of effective online presentation tools.
online presentation tools that we (OLTD 505 members) have used or attempted to use and give our opinions of them so it would be easier to select an online presentation tool in future OLTD courses. Additionally, I thought it would be good to able to share this list with the next OLTD group starting in September. The main emphasis with the creation of
this document was to “share” our ideas and opinions of effective online presentation tools.
Hi All OLTDer's
I was thinking that it would be great if we could create a list of “online presentation tools” that we have used or attempted to
use and give our opinions of them. Although CogDogRoo does have a great list of web tools that can be used to create a web-based
story, I found it was challenging and time consuming go through the extensive list to find something that was free and easy to use. Please make sure you include a hyperlink for the online presentation tool. As this will just be a work in progress, please feel free to add/modify with your ideas or suggestions. If someone else has added a presentation tool you have used, feel free to add additional information: eg: your name under “Recommended by” or some of your "Likes” and “Dislikes”.
This is meant to be a quick reference to presentation tools as we continue on “Our Learning Journey” through the remaining OLTD courses. As the list grows, we may even want to categorize the different presentation tools. Additionally, we may even be able to share this list with the next OLTD group starting in September. We may also want to create a list like this for “online communication tools” that we have used. But for now, maybe we can start with this one.
Here is the link to the list of “Online Presentation Tools.” I hope that someone else has not created a document like this. If so, I apologize.
I must have been sleeping in the back row.
I was thinking that it would be great if we could create a list of “online presentation tools” that we have used or attempted to
use and give our opinions of them. Although CogDogRoo does have a great list of web tools that can be used to create a web-based
story, I found it was challenging and time consuming go through the extensive list to find something that was free and easy to use. Please make sure you include a hyperlink for the online presentation tool. As this will just be a work in progress, please feel free to add/modify with your ideas or suggestions. If someone else has added a presentation tool you have used, feel free to add additional information: eg: your name under “Recommended by” or some of your "Likes” and “Dislikes”.
This is meant to be a quick reference to presentation tools as we continue on “Our Learning Journey” through the remaining OLTD courses. As the list grows, we may even want to categorize the different presentation tools. Additionally, we may even be able to share this list with the next OLTD group starting in September. We may also want to create a list like this for “online communication tools” that we have used. But for now, maybe we can start with this one.
Here is the link to the list of “Online Presentation Tools.” I hope that someone else has not created a document like this. If so, I apologize.
I must have been sleeping in the back row.
A sixth artifact that I have chosen to demonstrate how I contributed to the learning of others is some of the Tweets that I made to the #oltd505 group. Although I am relatively new to the world of Twitter, I was able to learn a few of the basics to Twitter so that I would be able to share some ideas and resources with other. Additionally, I was able to set up my Weebly Blog so that any posts that I made to my blog would Tweet to the
#oltd505 group.
Another demonstration of how I contributed to the learning of others are some comments I made to blog post made by others in OLTD 505. I have kept a track of these on a separate blog called OLTD 505 Blog Responses.