Week 4 Midterm

This week I was to work with a team to present a different types of online training tools. I enjoyed thinking of the portion that i was able to present (Interactive PowerPoint Quizzes) This not only allowed me to demonstrate how I have applied what I have learned from the my Classes. In addition, I was able to take a deeper look at what the tool i was using could do that I had not yet capitalized.
As far as the team assessment goes I have to admit I am a little disappointed, in myself and a little in my teammates. It would have been nice if every participant could have used a collaboration tool that was presented. I attempted to take a lead at this by creating a WIKI in hopes that others would have wanted to use another collaboration tool. I realize more now that it would have been better to ask each group member to pick a collaboration tool to use rather than assume that they would take my very suttle hint.
In addition, I did set up two WIKIs and it is Saturday and they have not used it yet. However, I am optimistic that it will be used Sunday when Eric collaborates our work. I am a little disappointed in that if it was working that they didn't ask the instructor for assistance.
In the end, the responsibility lies with me. And if I have another group assignment I will present the idea with the team immediately and be mor forthright with my goals for the assignment.

Week 3 of Assesment of Learning

This week I saw exactly why it is so important to asses learning. I do this often in the training programs I have created at work. However, not in a way that also measures financial return. In addition, I find that most of leadership does not support spending time to asses learning. This is mainly because they do not understand its importance.

Because of the concept map I built and the Concept Map Case Study I see now why we asses learning and plan to explain that to all who do not support the current assesment. In addition, I am adding the Graph project as a assignment for a new dsr to measure financial return against the past training program and to build my own portfolio for the training programs I developed.

In addition, I have attached the articles that assisted me in creating the concept map and also the concept map I created:

Assesment Toolbox Map

Module 2 Journaling (Assessment in E-Learning)

After reading the Weblog Case Study: Case study of weblog use in an online Rhetoric and Writing class. I see how blogs can better assist us in many ways to allow learners to be the creator of their learning instead of traditional instructor centered learning. I especially enjoyed how they stated that this is not perfect and not all students participate equally or take away the same experience as others. And as all learning experiences, blogging will only be as effective to the learner if they are fully engaged and take full control of their own learning. They did this by surveying each student.

I do have a few questions about how we are going to utilize blogging.
How are we going to create the collaborative learning environment (Small groups, or class groups)
How are we going to locate each other. Is the discussion board the only way to do this? If there was no discussion board what would the alternative be?
How are you able to evaluate our use? Do we have to give you access or do you automatically have access to blogs because you are apart of each type of blog. Do you find it difficult to manage each bog if you had an account?
Linnea

Partner Interview of Linnea Dolan

I am Linnea Dolan I have been in Stouts Graduate school since fall 2007 and I started, hopping to get my masters to teach Culinary Arts in a Technical college and I have been chefing since I was 14. However after getting married and working with my husband for 3 years I took the responsible job as a workforce training specialist in a Trucking Company to get health insurance for us both, Little did I know that I would enjoy the job so much that I am now contemplating my full return to the restaurant that my husband currently works at.
I started the E-Learning certificate because I learned that I had a talent in web design and a passion for teaching and this seemed like a great opportunity in this technology driven world. Not only that but this class also will count towards my master’s degree and any step closer is something that I defiantly want.

From this class I want to learn how to gauge my student’s success without actually observing face to face. And I hope to apply this knowledge to the training program that I built at work that is 50% online which the company has never seen before.
One thing that you may never guess about me is that I recently got my husband his first dog which was a Saint Bernard puppy. And it was the best decision that I ever made and she makes us laugh and enjoy life more than I ever expected a dog could do. And she, my husband and family is something that I would never want to give up.

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Final Posting

My journey of this class was winding and full of success as much as it was of failure. When this class started it is safe to say I felt as though a had a full grasp on the concept that was to be taught. I had strong opinions and a system I followed to create and evaluate my training modules. Regardless I felt that if I did the work I would easily pass the class and move forward to get my degree. I was partially right but I also did not realize that I was going to need to do more than work. I learned that I needed to invest some emotion, research the other side, and create a new outlook.
When I was developing this new outlook, I many times researched many dead ends or things that did not contribute to the subject I wanted to learn. Nevertheless, for every five resources that did not contribute I found 1 that did contribute and appealed to my style of learning. The same was true when deciding what training module to apply a new technique to.

I enjoyed:
Using the new Bloom’s Taxonomy
PBL
Questioning techniques
Web Quest
The Rule Brick
Big 6

One thing that I would change about the class is to gear it towards training as well as a classroom. Currently my work is trying to go all web based for training thus me taking the class. Many times, I was asked to evaluate my classroom or school. In addition, technically I do not have one and not all questions applied to my training program.

Through out this class I learned about many of the difficulties teachers face daily. I also learned many ways to organize and implement projects to learners. Through this course, I have built my online library to include new resources that I have already used in my professional career. This course also required that I analyze training modules that I have created. Through these analyses, I have not only seen the modules from a new light but also added and enhanced the modules. Because of these enhancements, I have been praised at work several times.

Developing the Quick Quest.

Developing the Quick Quest.

Below are the steps I followed when developing my Quick Quest.

· Read all introductory reading
· Review all Examples and published tips
· Identify a situation that a DSR will find thought provoking
· Document the situation
· Title the situation using catchy words.
· Review the Pathfinder from (Module 6)
· Review the problem developed in Module Four
· Compose a Quick quest that incorporates the problem in Module 4 and the Pathfinder
· Compose a evaluation that the learner can complete individually
· Compose a conclusion to the Quick Quest.
· Review the Quick Quest.