Flight Path
If you don’t know where you’re going any road will get you there
Time goes fast! It seems yesterday I began teaching my first class in Redlands Adult School in California, a true-beginning ESL course. The majority of learners were illiterate in their own language. A challenging and rewarding experience!
Since that time I’ve been teaching adults and post-secondary languages and social studies.
Currently, I teach in the “Languages Culture & Travel” program of the UBC, Continuing Studies. The classes are delivered face-to-face and we use Moodle just to deliver content to students as standard SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Management).
I am also teaching an online Spanish course in the Language Training Institute of the Simon Fraser University. The course is delivered by WebCT Vista, and Quia Books which is a web-based version of the Spanish text, and it has its own technological platform.
One of my main goals in the MET program that hopefully I can achieve in this course is :
- To design a course using all the features of Moodle as Learning Management System that will be articulated with my own philosophy of teaching. “More importantly, educational practices concerned with using and choosing e-learning technologies could be conducted more effectively if basic philosophical differences were understood” (Kanuka, 2008 p.93).
By the end of this term, I expect to be a Moodle novice professional. In order to achieve this goal besides doing the required assignments in the course, I will use Moodle in my project design for the ETEC 510, which I am currently taking along to this course.
Others specific goals for this course that I’d like to achieve are:
- To create e-portfolio as an assessment tool to be used in any of my teaching courses .
- Go deeply on the features and possibilities of using social software as Wikis and Weblogs to implement them in my courses.
- Be able to produce animation and motion in multimedia using open sources software.
References:
Kanuka, H. (2008). Understanding e-learning technologies-in-practice through philosophies-in-practice. In T. Anderson & F. Elloumi (Eds.) Theory and Practice of Online Learning, Chapter 4 (p.93). Retrieved on October 18, 2008 from: http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120146
