{"id":94,"date":"2015-12-21T11:36:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T16:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ryanarcher\/?p=94"},"modified":"2015-12-21T11:36:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T16:36:30","slug":"designing-an-online-blended-course-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ryanarcher\/2015\/12\/21\/designing-an-online-blended-course-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing an Online Blended Course : Year 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forgive me Cohort21 for it has been a little while since I last posted. Today I wanted to talk a little about my action plan for this year. I have decided to extend my work from last year. Last year, I developed a course for boys that used the principles of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gettingthingsdone.com\/\">David Allen&#8217;s Getting Things Done<\/a> <\/span>framework and applied\u00a0them to Google Calendar and our internal organizational processes at UCC. However, my intention last year was to design an online module to deliver the course to the boys. This did not happen, as the year progressed the scope of the project grew and I also grew busier and busier. Tragedy struck my family near the last face-2-face when\u00a0my 18 year old nephew passed away after a rock climbing accident. The project stalled and I shelved it. So what has happened since then?<\/p>\n<p>During the first week back to school\u00a0I presented the\u00a0work I had completed at our annual technology professional development event and it was met with some enthusiasm. Two teachers showed particular excitement in the\u00a0connections to their own work and offered to collaborate with me. This was energizing and I decided to pick up where I left off. At that point I had the course developed on paper and many of the instructional videos developed but there was still the task of getting all of it into an online platform and making it engaging and relevant to the boys. This has led me to this year&#8217;s action plan question:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>How do I create an online blended course that is engaging, self directed, and provides effective learning opportunities to the boys?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>The Criteria for Success:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The course needs to be flexible, self-directed and delivered outside the current academic and co-curricular program.<\/li>\n<li>The course needs to have mechanisms for meaningful and timely feedback (ie. students progress need to be actively monitored and assessed)<\/li>\n<li>The course needs to be engaging and intuitive.<\/li>\n<li>The boys need to be made aware of the course and need a reason to complete it on their own time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No sweat right! I already feel the scope starting to expand&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>The good thing is I have already started and made good progress with the help of the two teachers I am collaborating with. \u00a0The first teacher (IB Film) gave me some time with his IB2 class. During that class I had the boys go through the course as it was (in a Google Doc) and give feedback on the concepts and activities. The google doc had videos linked in so the boys were able to get through a bunch of activities in the hour class. From the feedback the students gave me we found that the first chapter entitled &#8220;Capture&#8221; (connecting all their calendars together into one master calendar) was very relevant and immediately useful.<\/p>\n<p>After that experience I met with the 2nd teacher (IB1 and IB2 coordinator from the Centre for Learning). She was equally pleased with the students&#8217; feedback and offered to help me get the first chapter into Haiku and deliver it to the whole IB2 consortium during one of her support meetings.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_112\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112\" style=\"width: 153px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ryanarcher\/files\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-21-at-11.29.22-AM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-112\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ryanarcher\/files\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-21-at-11.29.22-AM.png\" alt=\"Me as a Voki\" width=\"153\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My\u00a0Voki Character<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the first chapter, we used<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/voki.com\/\">Voki<\/a> <\/span>to create an animated version of myself that gave tips called &#8220;Archer&#8217;s Advice&#8221;. These clips were 30 to 60 second long and usually extended the students knowledge of Google Calendar (colour coding, renaming, etc). We also used <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techsmith.com\/camtasia.html\">Camtasia Studio<\/a><\/span> to create instructional screen capture videos that we hosted on Youtube and embedded directly into the page. We also took screenshots along the way to ensure the students knew how\u00a0their calendars should look like. We added\u00a0links to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynda.com\/Business-Skills-tutorials\/Getting-Things-Done\/170776-2.html\">David Allen&#8217;s course on Lynda.com<\/a><\/span> to support his concepts. We used the polling and discussion features of Haiku to promote reflection and gauge the students&#8217; understanding. Finally, we embedded\u00a0an exit survey from\u00a0Google Forms and an assignment submission button on Haiku. The students were required to fill out the survey and submit screenshots of their progression through the first chapter as evidence of completion.<\/p>\n<p>Once we completed the chapter we delivered it to 57 IB2 students during a support session through the Centre for Learning. Most students completed the full chapter in the time allotted (about 20 minutes) and most filled out the survey. Not as many submitted evidence through the submission button. The information gathered from the surveys were very helpful and we plan to use this information to guide us while we create the second chapter (there are 5 chapters in total).<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to hear more about our journey creating an online blended learning course!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgive me Cohort21 for it has been a little while since I last posted. Today I wanted to talk a little about my action plan for this year. I have decided to extend my work from last year. Last year, I developed a course for boys that used the principles of David Allen&#8217;s Getting Things &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ryanarcher\/2015\/12\/21\/designing-an-online-blended-course-year-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Designing an Online Blended Course : Year 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action-plan","tag-blended-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ryanarcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ryanarcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ryanarcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ryanarcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ryanarcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ryanarcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ryanarcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ryanarcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ryanarcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ryanarcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}