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Homework Session 2.3 - Reflection

At the King William I College I started the course participants as Technology Enhanced Learning (and trainer). In this context, I develop a number of assignments over the next 18 months.

In this blog post at my reflection session 2.3 which started to develop my teaching arrangement. Meanwhile I have the leather package is almost ready, see here.

Only the study task about building a website I have not finished, however there are a number of weeks to go until it will be used by the students. For feedback or evaluation of my teaching arrangement does not matter, because there are a total of 11 studies, all tasks have the same structure.

So far I am very excited about using eXe Learning to create a learning package. The use of the tool is very simple. Sometimes it is necessary to (especially in copy and paste from existing materials) to the HTML code to dive to get the layout neatly. Importing Word and Excel documents in the form of beoordelingsforumulieren or checklist is very simple. The embedding of Youtube videos and twitter is simple.

My concern about it / not get support from eXe Learning after contact with Willy Vermaelen removed. In particular his comments on my blog post about the post and on his own weblog this is essential. The help of Willy Vermaelen way to ask is super small and very fast.

When you export my learning package I switched from a SCORM object to a directory with website content. The export then import I @ N tschool. The export to a folder content website works better, because this way the navigation is very clear to the student. Also by Martijn Bos and John Ypma developed style sheet based on a learning package in the form of a website.

Looking back to the design of my teaching arrangement it is obvious that I (part based on feedback from Jan Jacobs) have added a few things. Consider the zelfinschatter (Google Docs), based on a comparison of the beginning and the end of the project I want to measure whether the perception of the student he / she has learned. I would also like to see what issues the largest learning gain can be set and see if I can find an explanation. Also consider adding a knowledge test which I student perceptions of the level of his / her knowledge. If a wrong question to be answered then is referred to the literature necessary to still the knowledge to get or to brush. I also spent in making the specific learning objectives in the project and the study tasks. I also added a reference to the project Mediawijsheid that students have already performed. In theory questions the student should specify the sources and learned around the efficient and effective search applications.

I am very proud of what is now far and am looking forward to the feedback from my fellow-TEL next Monday.

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Written instructions on Open Office - an evaluation of project

Some weeks ago the students of the Employee Management ICT training should write a guide about the installation, configuration and use of Open Office under Windows XP.

This year, I and my fellow Dutch teacher for the requirements of the manual are made, including further evaluation strengthened and made more specific. In the Dutch lessons, attention has been devoted to writing a good guide.

Meanwhile I have checked everything, and there are a number of things in general:

  • In general, the quality of the manual better than last school year. I think this has to do with the assimilation of the Dutch box and making the specific evaluation criteria.
  • Only 5% of the students used Header1, Kop2, et. cetera for chapters and then generates the index. Beautiful input for the ECDL course which is taught Word.
  • The spelling checker is not very often used to check spelling. Too bad, because that is a quick way to score points.
  • Clearly indicate that an end user must press a specific button or choice to make is often not clearly shown in the example screenshots can handleiding.Zo the button with an arrow or circle work to clarify what exactly is printed on worden.Daarnaast you can consistently button in the text between quotes exactly the right places and spelling, for example:

Press "Next".

  • In some cases, part of the OpenOffice.org website copied included installation instructions for Linux using RPMs. That was no mean thing, because the mission is clearly to install Windows XP for a novice PC user. It seems that these students quickly by copy & paste books wanted quick results.
  • In some cases, to put big steps, making a starting end user quickly lost touch. Also missing than the corresponding screenshots.

In summary I am very pleased with how this project is gone. Better results of students with particular requirements, evaluation criteria and the focus in the Dutch lessons.

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Visual Learning - why, according to students!

My colleague Jan Jacobs drew me on this video. This video presents the results of interviews with students.

The video was made by students of the VLL: Visual Learning Lab. For me a perfect video that really gives food for thought, and in line with my own thoughts about attractive (read: motivating) and effective teaching.

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