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…
Well, that’s a wrap on my Major Learning Project! I have taken so much away from this Project throughout the fall semester of EC&I 831! At the beginning of this class, I was really struggling with finding a topic that I wanted to learn more about, so I reached out to a co-worker for some ideas and she suggested I should do something surrounding pregnancy – I am sure glad I took her suggestion. I will be the first to…
Here is my Summary of Learning for the Fall 2021 verision of EC&I 831 Social Media & Open Education!
We are now responsible to take care of another tiny human and this is an opportunity that I am extremely excited to tackle with my wife. She has been such a trooper throughout the entire pregnancy and I am extremely proud of her! I am going to use my final post of my project to outline some of our routines we have planned for our little one when they arrive through the first few months. I have found another resource…
The whole idea of Open Education(OE) and Open Education Resources (OERs) remains very new to me and I didn’t know much about them up until our last class which was centred around them. After completing last week’s blog post discussing OE and OERs I feel that I have a bit more of an understanding about them and how they could benefit the educational world. The Nova Southeastern University outlines OERs to be “are teaching, learning and research materials in any…