Applied Project eTeaching Certificate Program February 2010
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AppliedProjecteTeachingCertificateProgramFebruary2010
Background CourseProposal
Context content Goals▪ Technical▪ Social▪ organizational
WhatWorked WhatDidn’tWork Comments
TargetGroup EnglishasaSecondLanguage‐InternationallyTrainedProfessionals
AdvancedEnglishLevel EngineersandTechnologists Varietyofethnicities Upto10students
Context OfferedtostudentsattendingCommunicationforEngineersandTechnologists(CET)atVancouverCommunityCollege
CETonhiatusduringOlympicperiod‐nof2fcontactduringon‐linecourse
Courseranfor12days Metstudentstopresentcourseandgetrecruits 8studentsenrolled
Content▪ Communicationsfocusinaprofessionalsetting–listeningandspeaking▪ Moreonlisteningthanspeaking▪ Listeningstrategies▪ Listeningpractice
Technical topostinadiscussionforum,reply,oreditapost toaddanimage,emoticons,alink touploadawrittendocument touploadanaudiofile(MP3) toaddanentryinaclassglossary(VocabularySharing)
touseVoiceThread(tocreateavoicemessage,to“TellmeAboutYourself”)
toparticipatein‘Elluminate’on‐linesessions tocompleteavarietyofquizzes(multiplechoice,matching,True/False)
Organizational
Contentpresentedonadailybasis–notallatonce Studentsmanagedtheirtimetocompleteavarietyoftasks:
▪ completeshortlisteningitemsandquizzes▪ createwrittenandspokeninstructionstoteachothers▪ createavoicemessage▪ sharelisteningresources▪ sharenewordiscoveredvocabulary(minimumof9entriesperstudent)▪ evaluateavoicemessageandaclassmate’soralresponse▪ completeavocabularyquizbasedonVocabularySharing▪ createaminimumof24‘quality’postsorinteractions(eachpostmust
respondtoestablishedcriteria)
Social Asynchronouscommunicationwiththeinstructoronadailybasis
Asynchronouscommunicationwithotherparticipantsonadailybasis
synchronouslyinElluminate Communicateforavarietyofreasons‐toteachothers,askquestions,comment,respondtofeedback,sharevocabulary,stateopinions
Fewtechnicalproblems Studentseasilynavigatedthecourse
Instructionswereclear
Studentsenjoyedcommunicatingon‐line Communicatedwithinstructorandwitheachother Communicatedtoaskquestions,share,givefeedback,stateopinions
andtoproblemsolve
Studentgeneratedmaterial Sharedresources Sharedimages Createdanactivitynotplannedbytheinstructor(SongSharing) Vocabularysharing
ElluminateSessionsaddedcohesivenesstocourse
Posts Generallythoughtful‘quality’posts
VocabularySharing Fun–usefulphrasesshared“painintheass”
Studentsreflectedonlisteningstrategiesthrough Randomlisteningglossary Quizzes Videosandfeedbackonvideos Feedbackfrominstructor
Feedback Instructorabletogiveeffectivewrittenandoralfeedbacktostudentsabout
theirspeaking/pronunciation
Participation astudentdroppedoutatstart(workcommitments)
Anotherdisappearedhalfwaythrough OneonlyparticipatedintheElluminatesessions
Posts Somestudentsparticipatedmorethanothers Somestudentsdirectedtheirpostsmoretotheinstructorthantoeachother
Onlyafewmanagedtopost2x/day
Voicethread Tookalotoftimeforinstructortolearnandadapttocourse
Fewstudentsdidthisactivity VocabularySharing
NotallstudentsconsistentlycontributedtoVocabularysharing
Assessment Studentsnotformallyassessedbyinstructor No‘marks’givenexceptforquizresultsandanecdotalfeedback
Lackofformalassessmentmayhaveaffectedparticipation
Workload Moststudentsreportedtheyspent2hoursadayinthecourse
InstructorResponse planningthecoursemorestressfulthanrunningandmoderatingthecourse
Senseofwonderwhenstudentsstartedparticipatinginplannedactivities(It’sworking!!)
Feltliketherewasmoreparticipationfromstudentson‐linethanintheclassroom
Wonderhowitwouldbetomanagesamecoursewith20studentsaswedowithf2f.
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