Reflection on Engaging e-Learning Course
The main thing that I learned is that creating online units take SOOOOOOOOOOOOO much time! I wanted to try to make an entire unit that could be used entirely online and I quickly realized that I set myself up to spend a lot of time trying to create, find, and organize resources and materials for students to learn math on their own. I created a Google Site to house everything and it took awhile to compose everything!
Here is an example of one of the lessons that I want my students to work through. Each lesson has 3 things to do (1: the material/examples to learn, 2: practice, 3: assessment)
After this course, I do feel as though I have a better idea of what it takes to create online courses. and in turn have grown as an educator. I know that this is where Education is going so it was important to learn more about it, and one of the reasons I wanted to take this course. I will continue to take more education and technology course to help improve my lessons which can only benefit my students!
Hi Jen,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you completely that creating a unit online is extremely time consuming. The unit I created isn't even 100% online and it still took a significant amount of time. I am so glad that I took this course in the summer so that I could get it done well (and while multitasking and watching summer programs)!
ReplyDeleteJennifer,
I felt the same way about creating a unit online. I really enjoyed the process of making it but yes it does take more time than I expected. I think now that we have more experience with the technologies out there it will go faster in the future. For me, it took me a while to figure out how to use some of the tools. With now understanding how each of the tools work, I think the process will be a lot smoother.
Furthermore, I do also believe that technology is the way of the future and we need to continue to grow and become familiar with all the resources out there. There is so much out there on the internet and it is going to continue to change and evolve, so it is critical to stay up to date with the technologies. This will really benefit our students learning and help them become more critical thinkers and innovators.
Jennifer,
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you that creating e-Learning courses is extremely time consuming! I create a unit plan that was 50/50 with technology and paper/pencil and I still am not even done creating it! I also co-teach the course that I made the unit for, which makes it even more difficult with time as it is hard to meet with my colleagues to create the course and upload the materials, etc.
I really like the way you set up your lessons with the 3 different activities and descriptions of each. Thanks for sharing!