Posted in ETEC 565 - Module 3 on Jun 28th, 2009 No Comments »
What is troubling Boris’ students? Reading the description of this week’s case, I think Boris needs to first investigate as to why students who do well on lab exercises cannot translate that level of competency onto unit tests. Depending on what the issue is, his solution can be drastically different. In my years of teaching […]
Posted in ETEC 565 on Jun 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Unlike last week, this week’s work with Moodle’s assessment tool proved to be time-consuming and frustrating. While some features in Moodle’s quiz function are easy to use and can potentially save an instructor’s time, there are also significant shortcomings in the quiz function. For starters, I would definitely NOT recommend using this feature to have […]
Posted in ETEC 565 - Module 3 on Jun 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication In choosing my communication tools for my LMS course site, I strive to use tools that are i) simple to use, and ii) offer significant pedagogical value to the course. From scholarly literature and my personal experience taking various online courses, I have settled into using “forum” and “chat” as my […]
Posted in ETEC 565 on Jun 20th, 2009 No Comments »
My reflections on communication tools have now been posted. You can click on the following link to take a look. As always, I appreciate your feedback, any feedback. Ed’s Reflections on Communication Tools
Posted in ETEC 565 on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Proposal for: Mr. Chris Kelly, Superintendent, Vancouver Board of Education (SD# 39) From: Ed Leung, Science Department Head, Counsellor, Templeton Secondary School Re: Recommendation for the Implementation of a Learning Management System (LMS) for Templeton Secondary School Rationale for the Proposal: Within the mission statement of Vancouver Board of Education (formerly Vancouver School Board) is […]
Posted in ETEC 565 - Module 3 on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Some Easy Parameters for Trinh From reading the description of Trinh’s challenges, and having felt that disconnectedness in taking an online course, I think there are a couple of relative simple solutions for Trinh: E-mail: Because Trinh is delivering her museumology course via Vista, and Vista offers a “mail” feature for instructors, all Trinh needs […]
Posted in ETEC 565 - Module 3 on Jun 10th, 2009 No Comments »
My Four Prongs of Learning Anderson’s article describes four different attributes in learning. According to him, “good” learning occurs when the learning is learner-, knowledge-, assessment-, and community-centered. In my experience taking online courses both at the undergraduate and now at the graduate level, I notice that it is difficult for any particular course to […]
Posted in ETEC 565 - Module 2 on Jun 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Costs that Anju Need Not Pay While there is no doubt that the creation of an informational DVD would allow Anju’s customers to have easy access to the resources Anju wants to present to them, the cost that Anju needs to incur upon her will be a continuous one, and is not necessarily sustainable. While […]