Do you have a web site which explains about the equipment and physical
environment you are using Barb?
Andy
At 05:08 PM 7/17/01 -0600, you wrote:
>thanks, all of you!
>
>Here's what I did for today's class, with you in my mind:
>
>I found an Instructional Designer who suggested I look over a text in ID.
>It had many, many of the answers I was looking for about constructing
>authentic learning objects and assessment tools.
>
>I re-read an article by Hewitt and Scardamalia, out of OISE on Design for
>Distributed knowledge (1997- the link is broken now). I reread Pea on
>multimedia. I carefully read Molly's cite. I thought about Phillip Capper's
>extoling me to be passionate. I thought about Phillip White saying I think
>'let it evolve' and found that reiterated in Molly's cite too.
>
>I constructed an exercise with the instructional designer for teams to use
>Blackboard 5 in my HIgh Performance Management Classroom. I distributed a
>worksheet describing how they could collect participation points from me by
>even experimenting with various features of Blackboard. I talked about
>Higher Order Thinking Skills.
>
>During the two and a half hours I punctuated class by noting from their
>various texts the importance of collaboration and cooperation, reiterated as
>critical features of successful business people. We did a pre-test on the
>software features to learn how many used these features. There was
>additional support from the help desk staff helping them to use the software
>to identify literature citations from the databases at the library, and on
>the web. I asked them at one point to stop and announce one tip for making
>this task go more smoothly, from each team. I noticed other teams noting
>these tips. There was pretty high energy by the end; sluggish and worrisome
>at first.
>
>I asked them to reflect on what they learned. We will pick up again on
>Thursday, then again twice next week.
>
>I am trying to embed collaborative activity within the classroom norms.
>There is some resistance, typically from the shining stars who like to work
>alone and are heavily rewarded for this in other classes.
>
>Thank you all for taking the time to respond to me. I appreciate your wise
>counsel very much.
>Barb
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