Digital Technology for Teaching & Learning

Generally speaking, the Engaging e-Learning Course (Fall 2018)  was basically around three major assignments: Genius Hour project, Unit Design assignment and team discussions and reflections. Through these assignments, educators created engaging learning experiences by demonstrating and integrating digital tools to motivate and enhance a student's learning process. The Genius Hour project consisted of an on-going reflection journal from a skill or project we were interested to learn on our own. This activity encouraged the engagement of e-learning because it embraced the practice of online research, the use of media tools and communication skills by visiting others' genius hour projects. The Unit Design objective was to demonstrate the engagement of e-learning into different components of an unit design.  Throughout the unit, engaging lessons were planned to encourage 21st-century learning features. Some of the planned activities included onli...

One of the activities, that I enjoyed working within the Engaging e-learning (Fall/2018) course, was the creation of assessments for the unit design assignment. The main reasons were: exploring Google Forms side and learning how to create assessments and rubrics. I  am posting two students self-assessments as one of the artifacts for this course: teamwork rubric and an opinion writing rubric. Both assessments were created on Google Forms and with the intention of being graded by the students. In the multiple choice teamwork rubric, students evaluate how well they have been collaborating with each other on a common goal. The descriptors include how they did their work for the team, how they helped the team, if they listened to other ideas from their teammates, if they shared ideas with their team, and if they treated their teammates with respect. The scale rate offers three options: still learning, sometimes and almost always. Here is a...

I was introduced to the concept of the Feedback Quadrant during the Engaging e-Learning course (Fall/2018). As its name indicates, the purpose of this tool is to provide concrete feedback in four major areas:                                              Positive Comments       Things that Surprised you                                                 Questions   Suggestions for Change During this course, the Feedback Quadrant was used to review a classmate's unit project. The design of this tool was easy to follow not only for the reviewer but also for the person who receives it.  I found that this format of providing feedback is very practical because you can fill it up the quadrants by listing the ideas on...

Week 7: Genius Hour Reflection December 9, 2018 I used to think that the art of typing consisted of moving your fingers fast through the keyboard.  I always wondered how people found the right letters without looking at the keys. In my years of high school and college, I got in the habit of typing with two fingers and with my eyes on the letters instead of looking at the screen and consequently, making mistakes all over the place. It was for me faster to write on paper than to use a typing machine. With the influence of technology in my life, typing is a skill that I use a lot and I believe it is a skill that everyone must learn.  I am glad I chose to learn typing as my Genius Hour project because after 7 weeks of dedication and practice I would say that it is a worthy task.  I learned the importance of keeping my fingers on the home row as a reference for locating the rest of the letters. Together with this, even now my eyes are...