3.3 Online & Blended Learning
Candidates develop, model, and facilitate the use of online and blended learning, digital content, and learning networks to support and extend student learning and expand opportunities and choices for professional learning for teachers and administrators. (PSC 3.3/ISTE 3c)
Artifact: Multimedia Design Project/WebQuest
Reflection:
The Multimedia Design Project was completed during the course ITEC 7445, Multimedia and Web Design. For this artifact we were asked to create a technology-enhanced learning experience for our class using the WebQuest model. I designed the WebQuest independently during the summer semester for implementation during the following school year.
Standard 3.3, Online and Blended Learning asks that candidates develop, model, and facilitate the use of online and blended learning, digital content, and learning networks to support and extend student learning and expand opportunities and choices for professional learning for teachers and administrators. Developed in the form of a WebQuest, this technology-enhanced learning experience includes online and blended learning throughout the process. This artifact is designed to take high school students through the authentic task of auditioning for a college music program. As they complete the WebQuest, they must use various digital tools and resources to research college audition requirements, find sheet music and recorded examples of appropriate songs, and record themselves performing the song they have chosen to learn. They also must learn the piece of music, practice with an accompanist, and perform. The WebQuest is designed to be completed independently over the course of the semester to extend student learning beyond the walls of the classroom and meet a combination of music and technology standards.
Through the completion of this artifact, I learned many valuable things about instructional design. Having to create an authentic learning experience for my students that they would complete independently with the use of technology was a new experience. By nature, my class is collaborative, so this project was outside of my comfort zone and really pushed me to be creative in its design. The WebQuest model was also new to me when introduced at the beginning of this course. While it was good to have a structured way to present this project, if I were given an opportunity to go back and complete this in a different format, I would.
Incorporating technology into all subject areas will impact student learning and school improvement. As a teacher of a specialty area, I am often not expected to incorporate technology into my lesson planning in the same way as the core subject teachers. While I agree that it would be difficult to incorporate technology into the day to day teaching of some subject areas, projects like this WebQuest could easily be incorporated as independent work that students could complete over a semester or school year. This impact on student learning could be assessed through the completed products from these projects.
The Multimedia Design Project was completed during the course ITEC 7445, Multimedia and Web Design. For this artifact we were asked to create a technology-enhanced learning experience for our class using the WebQuest model. I designed the WebQuest independently during the summer semester for implementation during the following school year.
Standard 3.3, Online and Blended Learning asks that candidates develop, model, and facilitate the use of online and blended learning, digital content, and learning networks to support and extend student learning and expand opportunities and choices for professional learning for teachers and administrators. Developed in the form of a WebQuest, this technology-enhanced learning experience includes online and blended learning throughout the process. This artifact is designed to take high school students through the authentic task of auditioning for a college music program. As they complete the WebQuest, they must use various digital tools and resources to research college audition requirements, find sheet music and recorded examples of appropriate songs, and record themselves performing the song they have chosen to learn. They also must learn the piece of music, practice with an accompanist, and perform. The WebQuest is designed to be completed independently over the course of the semester to extend student learning beyond the walls of the classroom and meet a combination of music and technology standards.
Through the completion of this artifact, I learned many valuable things about instructional design. Having to create an authentic learning experience for my students that they would complete independently with the use of technology was a new experience. By nature, my class is collaborative, so this project was outside of my comfort zone and really pushed me to be creative in its design. The WebQuest model was also new to me when introduced at the beginning of this course. While it was good to have a structured way to present this project, if I were given an opportunity to go back and complete this in a different format, I would.
Incorporating technology into all subject areas will impact student learning and school improvement. As a teacher of a specialty area, I am often not expected to incorporate technology into my lesson planning in the same way as the core subject teachers. While I agree that it would be difficult to incorporate technology into the day to day teaching of some subject areas, projects like this WebQuest could easily be incorporated as independent work that students could complete over a semester or school year. This impact on student learning could be assessed through the completed products from these projects.