It is hard to beleive another semester has come to an end. I was lucky enough to collaborate with two great friends and colleagues of mine – Thanks for the great work Brianne and Leona! Hope you enjoy our Summary of our Learning! Cheers, Bret
In collaboration with my colleagues Leona and Brianne we have come to the end of designing our blended online course. The experience of collaboration, peer reflection and self evaluation has been a success. The final goal, a finished product that is usable in our teaching whether it be in a typical face to face classroom, a blended classroom or strictly an online version. Through the use of Google Classroom as our LMS we believe that we have developed a course…
A Reflection of the Review Process An experience in the peer review process. This past week Brianne, Leona and I had our course reviewed by our peers in EC&I 834. We all appreciated this experience as it provided us with valuable suggestions on how to improve our course as well as it gave us positive feedback about the work that we had already completed. Positive Feedback Let’s start here. Thank-you to all of our reviewers that noted that our course…
As we continue to plan our Course for Grade 8 – Cells and Systems, Brianne, Leona and myself are looking at ways in which we can implement online tools that will help increase the interactions between those involved in the course (students, teachers, parents, community members), creating and fostering a positive classroom community, albeit online. There are several different LMS and Online Tools that could be used within our course (Google Classroom, Google Sites, Forums, Edsby). However, we do want…
Assessment has always been an area of growth that I want to continue with each school year and I want to incorporate different or new types of assessment so that I am not always falling back to things like quizzes, projects, tests, papers, etc. Although these types of assessment do have a place from time to time, I think students welcome new and improved ways of showing their understanding of particular concepts. The problem I seem to have repeatedly with…
Course Development Profile Design a blended online learning course was the task given to us this past week in EC&I 834. Select an LMS, collaborate and develop a blended online course with potential synchronous and asynchronous components. In collaboration with Brianne McFetridge and Leona Stephen, we have put together an overview of a grade 8 Science course in Cells and Structure. A. Course – Life Science – Cells and Systems This course will follow the Saskatchewan Curriculum guidelines for the…
To begin I need to admit that I have never heard of the term HyFlex learning prior to last week. This is where I began my research this week. I needed to figure out exactly what this type of learning was and what it ecompasses. What is HyFlex? Leigh shared a great article titled Educause’s article titled, “7 Things You Should Know About The HyFlex Course Model” which outlines HyFlex Learning model. First off, this type of learning model has…
Hey EC&I 834, Here we go again with another masters course! I am excited to learn more about online and blended teaching and learning, as it is currently super relevant and applicable! This will be my 7th masters course and I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel! Who Is This Guy?! My name is Bret McMann and I grew up in Foam Lake, Saskatchewan – best place in the world to live! I completed…