Think about the steps to changing a tire, materials needed to complete the job, and any helpful tips you can provide to someone who is unfamiliar with the process. Below are two images that provide an example of what a job aid can look like. Please note that these are models and not intended to be the only formats you can utilize - feel free to be as creative as possible!
Example 1:
Example 2:
By Tuesday:
Prepare a discussion post like you are producing a step-by-step handout on the process to changing a tire. Be sure to include detail such as all the materials needed, what order things need to be in, etc. as our audience is people who do not know how to change a tire. Please utilize Microsoft Word, Publisher, Adobe Photoshop, or any other resource found in the "Resources" link to the left. If you would like to utilize another program outside of the ones mentioned, please acquire approval from the instructor. Save your handout in PDF format with the file name Discussion5+Last Name. For example, Jane Doe's file name would be "Discussion5Doe".
By Friday:
Read your colleague's discussion posts and review their handouts. While reviewing, respond to at least two of your peers' postings in two of the following ways:
- Feedback on format and creativity of the handout
- Feedback on the content (steps to changing a tire - were they all included?)
- Additional steps you might add
- Questions about their handout and/or content
- Comparing handouts (yours to theirs)
- Feedback on if handout was appropriate for audience
By Sunday:
Return to the discussion forum to read responses to your initial posting and comments on peers' posts to continue the discussion and reflect on knowledge you gained this week.
Click here for the discussion rubric to help guide you to your desired grade: Changing a Tire Discussion Rubric
Hi Teri:
ReplyDeleteAll the steps of this assignment were followed and you took great pain in completing this assignment. The only problem I saw was that this blog post was to be in keeping with "this week's required resources". You probably did not see this part.
We were just asked to post a comment and this is what I did. Thanks.
Ruth
Hi Ruth,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your feedback and I did actually see that part of the assignment after reading it through several times (haha), but went based on the Q and A section in our course where Dr. Bedford stated any topic was appropriate. I was a little confused as to what topic to choose, so I went with the driving objectives we've been working with - I didn't feel I could adequately create a discussion post about our resources this week that wouldn't overlap our actual discussion. Hopefully using any topic was indeed an acceptable path to take.
Thank you for your response!
-Teri
Teri,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your blog entry and I like your organizational format using illustrative examples. I think “a picture or illustration is worth a thousand words” in the virtual world. I think your blog discussion is well designed in the fact it is not overly complicated and illustrates the information in a simplified illustration which conforms to the limited capacity of human information processing system principal. I also think it allows the viewer to actively process the information by selecting relevant material and mentally organizing this information into a coherent structure. I think using text and associated images is effective because our brains can remember images more easily than text according to cognitive learning theory.
Your discussion questions are concise and relevant to the blog posting for collaborative discussion which is constructive to the assignment goal. “…the instructor explains the collaborative process and provides guidelines as well as “places” in the online learning environment for learner collaboration.” (Oosterhof, A., Conrad, R.-M., & Ely, D. P. 2008)
I think you have effectively achieved the assignment goal and demonstrated competence in constructing blog questions for your topic.
Oosterhof, A., Conrad, R.-M., & Ely, D. P. (2008). Assessing Learners Online. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
Hi Teri:
ReplyDeleteI am glad you based your response on Dr. Bedford's response, I did not see that. This of course would make your presentation very much on the correct footing and I appreciate it very much.
Ruth
Blog Reflection
ReplyDeleteFirst, I'd like to thank those who responded to my blog. I always enjoy others' thinking and expanding my knowledge and how I develop things. Now to my reflection:
The discussion thread on my blog was fairly lively. The responses weren’t responding to the discussion forum itself, but more as a review of how well the discussion forum was put together and how it matched up to the requirements of this assignment. The responses provided some good insight for me to see that how it was created, my peers felt was successful and would produce a quality discussion thread for learners. Therefore, I feel the discussion question blog I developed would be successful if used in a real-life classroom. It provided a background as to what the discussion forum was about, provides detailed instructions on what is expected of the learners, provides due dates and how to submit the discussion assignment, and gives a link to the rubric for the learners to review and gain an idea of what is being graded. These are all aspects that generate a successful discussion post (Palloff & Pratt, 2007).
In creating another discussion question blog post I would consider not having the learners have to do so much to the discussion and have it be more of a question and answer blog instead of created more like an assignment. I think I may have gotten a little carried away with what they needed to do and created a mini assignment opposed to a discussion. However, having those once in a while (like we have this week), may be beneficial to keep expanding their knowledge and applying it to hands-on activities.
References
Palloff, R., & Pratt, K. (2007). Building online Communities: Effective strategies for the virtual classroom. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.