My objective this week was to create a “first draft” of an activity that I could use either a synchronous or asynchronous tool to support student interaction in your Moodle site.<\/p>\n
A major reason for me taking the MET Program is that I want to be able to create meaningful and practical works that I will be able to incorporate into my daily teachings.\u00a0 So, not unlike most I am sure, I have to decided to create a Moodle site for one of my courses – Engineering Technology 10.\u00a0 I figure I will be able to transfer existing works as well as create new works for my class.\u00a0 I think the site will allow me to build stronger teacher-student, student-student as well as teacher-parent relationships.<\/p>\n
This first activity is one of my “new works” that I have created.\u00a0 Working with Moodle has come with some mixed feelings so far.\u00a0 At times I have been quite happy but sometimes I have had to log-off and walk away before my frustration level gets too high.\u00a0 I experienced both emotions when creating this assignment.\u00a0 The walking away feeling came when I couldn’t easily transfer what I had just created in a word document to my Moodle site.\u00a0 I wasn’t interested in re-typing it word for word so there are a few minor formatting issues but in time I am sure I can work those out.\u00a0 To compensate, I uploaded the activity in Word format so those using the Moodle site can see the Moodle activity (with its glitches) as well as the “original” document.\u00a0 The goal, however, would be to eliminate the need for the paper copy but as the old saying goes, “Rome wasn’t built in a day”.<\/p>\n
Description of the activity Rationale for selecting this type of activity<\/strong><\/em> How do I see students working within the tool I have set up?<\/strong><\/em> What tools are available to you to help you to track or record student activity within the LMS?<\/strong><\/em> All-in-all this was a good activity for a newbie like me.\u00a0 In the past I have always struggled with technology on the first attempt but I like to think that my learning curve is steep.\u00a0 I hope this will be the case with Moodle!<\/p>\n ~ Ryan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My objective this week was to create a “first draft” of an activity that I could use either a synchronous or asynchronous tool to support student interaction in your Moodle site. A major reason for me taking the MET Program is that I want to be able to create meaningful and practical works that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/redgaretec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/redgaretec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/redgaretec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/redgaretec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/redgaretec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/redgaretec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/redgaretec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/redgaretec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/redgaretec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/redgaretec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong><\/em>Basically, I have created a Wiki Activity for the Bridge Unit of my Engineering class. <\/strong><\/em>In groups of two, students are to select both a term and a type of bridge and define\/explain what they are (in context of Engineering).\u00a0 The two parts of this activity have slightly different criteria which is laid out in the assignment.\u00a0 After collaboration, each team is to post their solution to the wiki page of the class Moodle site.<\/p>\n
\nI chose this activity for a couple of reasons.\u00a0 First or all, I have found in the past (and present) that my students often have a poor grasp of terminology.\u00a0 Many just want to “do” – they don’t want to “learn”.\u00a0 I figure that if I can create a place (the wiki) where students can refer to it will increase their retention.\u00a0 Also, by making them the “authors” of the definitions they will also be more likely to remember the terms and their meanings.\u00a0 Secondly, I had them work in pairs because I believe this now becomes both\u00a0 a synchronous and asynchronous tool.\u00a0 The Synchronous communication will take place when the two partners work together (f2f) during class-time.\u00a0 It becomes asynchronous communication when either they send each other emails and updates during non f2f time and\/or when they finally submit their work to the wiki and other students read their postings.<\/p>\n
\nEssentially I see this is one big collaborative class assignment where each group of two will be responsible for the learning that takes place in the class.\u00a0 I can already envision a secondary assignment to this one where each student or group would then be responsible to posting their thoughts and comments to 2 -5 wiki entries (ie: what was good and what can be improved) in a discussion .\u00a0 This way, students would get feedback from their peers and would be able to increase the accuracy of their submissions.<\/p>\n
\nThis part I am still working on.\u00a0 Rather than asking for help I am trying to work through this.\u00a0 I believe that I can go to the wiki page and look at the history to see when changes were made as well as who made them.\u00a0 So if I wanted to do progress checks I could.<\/p>\n