Video link to my walkthrough of my course and modules: https://app.screencastify.com/v3/watch/r3p3kVNgkyDShrOxb86i

My original post about the overview/profile: https://edusites.uregina.ca/hetterley/2025/02/06/why-did-the-blender-go-to-therapy-it-had-mixed-emotions/

Post where I discuss some questions regarding assessment with my course: https://edusites.uregina.ca/hetterley/2025/02/14/im-in-my-formative-stage-of-trying-to-fix-my-formative-assessment-in-a-new-format/

Post where I go over some of the feedback I received from the first module: https://edusites.uregina.ca/hetterley/2025/03/27/thank-you-thank-you-youre-far-too-kind/

Does anybody else feel rushed? Maybe I should have opted for that extension. Yolo, as the kids say. Sadly, they don’t say it anymore and I’m slowly turning from the fun young teacher into the generic male teacher who only wears two different pair of pants all week. Sigh.

Realistically, learning about online course creation has made me simultaneously feel old and young. Some of this information and ways of doing things are so modern. My students were generally intrigued when I showed them an H5p video. It wasn’t that ground breaking. I just threw some questions over top of the video. They thought it was nuts. That’s why I love grade 9. They are still easy to impress. The reason I say I feel old is because learning how to use some of these resources to create online and digital materials has been a learning process. I felt very slow when creating things and I kept having to reference tutorials or just straight up google how to do somethings. In the end, I feel like I copped out using google classroom, because I already know how to use it. I don’t want to fall into that trap of just using the same thing because that’s what I know. Is this going to be the modernized version of the teacher that still uses an overhead projector?

I do feel confident in the set up of the course. As I’m blended, meaning my students will be in the room with me, I feel like I could direct them better if they were still confused about what was posted. If they missed a day, I’m confident, too, that they would still be able to follow. Everything is labelled very clearly and there are directions for where to find things. Does that mean a student is  always going to read everything and follow the directions? Hard no. But it is straightforward and if they’re confused they can look back and read again.

My course has a mixture of diagnostic, formative, and a future summative assessments. One of my main goals of the course was to expand on the formative side of things. I feel that in my everyday teaching I may be relying on the same thing a little too much. In my course I tried to offer a few different versions of formative assessment, because I think most of us can agree that this is where the magic happens. The real learnings that students will take to a summative assessment to showcase things. I would probably critique myself on the formative assessments as there were some cool things I’ve never tried before, like a digital venn diagram and H5p, but I also had some formative assessments that you could just consider reading responses. Questions and answers type of thing. In hindsight I wish I opted for something else. Now all my questions and answers had slight different formats and things to investigate with it, like our school menu or the Canada food guide, but I feel like I missed out on something. Maybe I could blame the time crunch with managing a fulltime job, taking another class on top of this one, and running on the university track team, but on those long bus trips I could have gotten outside the box. Although I feel I was certainly just trying to get this done at times.

One thing I will say about this process is it has certainly helped with my own planning. Breaking things down into modules is like a road map. I certainly plan all my lessons ahead of time, but having a system like this where it is digitally posted could help me for the future. I have everything laid out, resources and all. If I did a whole course this way, the second time around that I’d have to teach the course again, it’s literally laid out for me. I already do this in my google drive, but this is a very practical way of planning for the future too. I can edit what I need to for the future, add things in, take things out, etc. I know many teacher who archive old course and essentially just copy things over to their new one. It could help future Greg out. I know he’ll definitely need it.

Typing up another walkthrough of the project seems a little redundant to me, so I highly encourage you to check out the video. Skip to different points and you can see the process. This was some of my concerns as well as some things I would change for the future. Here’s to being more tech savvy for the future!

Greg