I mentioned to one of my classmates that I wish I had chosen one of her ideas, because after reading her post, I was reminded of how important it is. It was enlightening to see what everyone felt was the most important. I really enjoyed reading my classmates' posts this week. I remember having a "why didn't I think of this before" moment when I first read about Backwards Design. It's incredible how "common sense" this approach seems. Having taken the Instructional Design course recently, I am very familiar with the concept of Backwards Design. I felt very comfortable with the material this week. I doubt I could convince my school to switch to Google Forms (we have a contract with our course content designers, after all), but I think it would be very valuable for the teachers to have access to quiz and exam data to determine how effective these means of assessments really are. I would love to be able to analyze the data from our quizzes to determine the validity and reliability of the questions. One thing that Google Forms does that our system does not is break down the data relating to the questions. They take a quiz at the end of each module, which is auto-graded. My students complete their assignments and submit them to me electronically. Without my digital "helpers," I would never be able to stay on top of my day to day activities.īecause I teach online, all of our assessments are delivered digitally. My students continually make and cancel appointments, I attend meetings, and I cover other teachers' classes. Unlike a classroom teacher, my daily schedule varies day to day, even hour to hour. They are the only way I know how my day will go. I am very reliant on my Outlook and iPhone calendars. We have electronic gradebooks, electronic student monitoring, Google Docs, MS Office, Concur Expenses (for travel), and countless other tools to help us do our jobs better.
We would have the ability to embed it into our course welcome page relatively seamlessly.Įverything we do at FLVS relating to productivity is based on technology. I think that creating a dynamic virtual newsletter for our students would be a great way to get information to them quickly. My Calendar, Newsletter, and Presentation projects allowed me to use these programs in new ways. I enjoyed working on the projects this week, and I was happy to have the opportunity to discuss these products with my classmates. Since we all work remotely, it is important for us to be able to share information quickly and to have the ability to work on documents together. Google Docs is a great resource and we use it all the time at FLVS. This week I worked with a lot of programs with which I am extremely familiar.
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