ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK

Here are some categories of criteria for assessment:
 number of contributions
 quality of contributions
 building on contributions of others
 summarising contributions

ACCORDING TO THIS CRITERIA, I DECIDED TO PUT THIS ORDER OF IMPORTANCE:

1.- QUALITY OF CONTRIBUTIONS: THE COMMENTS MUST BE AUTHENTIC AND SHOW A REFLECTIVE THINKING OF WHAT WE ALREADY LEARN.
2.- BUILDING ON CONTRIBUTIONS OF OTHERS: BECAUSE IT IS AN INTERACTIVE MODEL, CONTRIBUTIONS OF OTHERS ARE VERY IMPORTANT, TO EXCHANGE INFORMATION AND LEARN OF EACH OTHER.
3.- NUMBER OF CONTRIBUTIONS: POST ENOUGH COMMENTS ITS GOOD TO BE RESPONSABLE AND POAY ATTENTION OF THE ACTIVITIES.
4.- SUMMARISING CONTRIBUTIONS: THIS LAST POINT IS IMPORTAT TOO, AND IT SHOWS ABILITY TO UNDERSATNDING IN A SHORT EXPLANATION.

I ADDED ANOTHER CRITERIA TO ASSESS:
5.- REFLECTS ANOTHER REFERENCE IN COMMENTS, LIKE INVETIGATION, RESEARCH FROM INTERNET (PAGES, BLOGS, ORGANIZATIONS, BOOKS, AUTHORS ETC), STUDENTS HAVE TO READ A LOT AND FIND MORE INFORMATION BECAUSE THERE IS NO LIMIT ON THIS KIND OF EDUCATION, SO IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW MORE INFO. THAN ONE TEXT, AND ITS REQUIRE TO MAKE PROPOSAL AND COMMENT COME OTHER SOURCES THAT THEY FOUND.

FEEDBACK:

Personal development plan
 development needs: TO ENCOURAGE AND IMPULSE THE STUDENT´S INICIATIVE TO PARTICIPATE BY GIVING CLEAR EXPLANATION AND TO CREATE A GOOD ATMOSPHERE TO WORK.
 development objective: DEPENDS ON THE ACTIVITIES, SOME REQUIRES MORE THAN ONE REFLECTION, SHOW EXAMPLES OF COMMENTS, PROPOSE ONE FREE ACTIVITY PER UNIT BUT ALSO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF CONTROBUTIONS BETWEEN LEARNERS. cREATE A DISCUSSION AFTER EVERY UNIT.
 Strategy: USE FORMAL TEXTS AND SOME OTHER WITH CONTROVERSIAL ASPECTS TO REFLECTS ON CONTEMPORARY EXPERIENCES.
 Actions:
- BE KIND, BY GIVING A GENERAL CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIC AFTER EVERY UNIT, AND FOCUS ON THEIR ACTIVITY COMMENTS TO ENCORAGE THEIR LEARNING PROCESS, AND ALSO GIVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE SELFCORRECTION, COMPARING WITH OTHER.

Exchanging Information!

Example objectives:

Ex 1 (a grammar problems conference) "In this conference we'll look at the present perfect and you'll share problems you have with the structure with others".
Pilar. "

Share the problems is the first step, and then you have to find some explanations to be clear on any grammar structure In this case dont get confusse with other porblems,you just focus on one first and little by little you can ask for clarification, also the observation is a clue to understand, because when you listen and look at others you can reflects on your own work. Write down all your doubts to create an order list of grammar points.


Ex 2 (an opening message for a conference on teaching listening skills) "Hi, everyone. Welcome to this conference on teaching listening skills. What activities and techniques are there in the pre-listening phase of a lesson? How can we match the technique or activity to the kind of listening our learners will be doing? These are the questions you'll have an answer to in this conference. Join us!
Tony"

There are many questions about listening, It is important to know that students can get efectivness on listening skill. because, Listening comprehension is probably the most difficult task for students.
it is important to reamrk which problems can we find on listening skill:
-Translating creates a barrier between yourself and the person who is speaking. that is very common, we translate to our native language and then it could be a non effective communication or understanding.
According to Kenneth Beare,on The Challenge of Teaching Listening Skills.
http://esl.about.com/cs/teachinglistening/a/a_tlisten.htm
I like to use this analogy: Imagine you want to get in shape. You decide to begin jogging. The very first day you go out and jog seven miles. If you are lucky, you might even be able to jog the seven miles. However, chances are good that you will not soon go out jogging again. Fitness trainers have taught us that we must begin with little steps. Begin jogging short distances and walk some as well, over time you can build up the distance. Using this approach, you'll be much more likely to continue jogging and get fit. Students need to apply the same approach to listening skills.

inferring and guessing by watching a film it can be the most useful tool to encourage our students, identifying the main idea of the conversation , but also ACEEPT that as a humans we can not understand everything at the moment, even in our native language, we find diffulties when we listen to other people.
Now, as teachers we must put in practice our listening skills ( in our daily life), and take in consideration the variety of listening techniques according to the level of the Ss.
Ex 3 (an opening message for a conference on learning and practising vocabulary) "In this lesson, you'll find specific information on a website and you'll practise vocabulary about food and nutrition. Edith."
I´d already found a very illustrating material to present this topic.
http://www.eflnet.com/vocab/food_vocabulary.php

and i got an example of vocabulary from http://www.schoolvideos.com/tgs/H2040TG.pdf
Nutrition Vocabulary

Calcium : a mineral that helps to build
healthy bones and teeth
Carbohydrates : nutrients that provide the
body with a source of energy for work and play
Fat : a nutrient that provides energy and
carries some vitamins through the body
Fiber : a material that helps to move food
through the body
Iron :a mineral that helps keep the blood
healthy
Junk Food :food that is high in fat and sugar
and low in healthy nutrients
Nutrient : a food substance that is of value to
the human body
Protein : a nutrient that is needed for the
body to grow, stay healthy, and build and repair
muscle
Vitamin A : a nutrient found in dark green,
leafy vegetables, orange and yellow vegetables,
and some fruits, which is needed for healthy
hair, skin, and eyesight.
Vitamin C : a nutrient that helps the body
fight infection and stay healthy; it is found in
fruits, especially citrus fruits

Suggested activities:
- drawing of food pyramid, using magazines and pictures, students must be complete the pyramid with healthy food.
- Make a list of shopping, the students choose appropiatekind of food.
- discussion: talking about their favorite food and which they consider the best diet around the world, like french cousine, italian food, mexican food, fast food etc.

What would you say?

Types of behavior...

1.- The squirrel: Always catching up. completes two weeks in one session then disappears again for some time.

2.-The stag: Tendency to dominate discussion at certain times.

3.-The magpie: Steals ideas without acknowledging.

As a e-moderator responses:

1.- Well this charater sounds so familiar to me, but if there is an order into the course he or she has to be on time, even when he can covers many activities before sometime, it could be good but it is important to check how fast did he do the assessment and also, if he understand everything.

2.- This case depends on the personality, and we always find this kind of person in every group, the person wants to show control but the point on this is to be polite and never feel like authority into the workteam, to be respectful is the main position. the moderator must be mark a line or guide the comments to not promote a fight.

3.- wow! wait, this is a serious problem, because when we use words from other people without references or mention the author, we are not honest, so is very common when he/she pretend to show his or her opinion but is not authentic, a good tool for that is read a lot, but always mantain our point of view in an independent way and take influences but dont steal them.

La carta de Raul:

first of all, he doesnt cover the whole topic, he just mentioned it on the first line and thats it. It good to know that he has doubts about something, but it is important to suggest, comment, share knowledge and participate with feedback.
the is another way to understand some points, for example he can research others authors and send a concrete questions about that, What are the concepts or definitions that you dont understand?

The Changing model of teaching and learning

I´m totally agree with Azael, related on to be clear about Holistic definition in teaching.
Because, as a study of whole filosophy teaching, holistic means to analize every part of something but at the same time taking every part of the objetc and create a complete study of that, in this case, this topic :The Teaching Model.

It is so easy to read each point and explain them, however it implicates more than words to be pratice and make a real change in a model teaching throug practice.

well I can refer this topic with a Company (as a analogue) because the teaching´s parts are conecected between them, and it is an integrated process likewise, the principal part depends on another, like a pyramid, for that, it is important to mantain a balance with all elements: persons involved on it, mechanisms, types of learning and resources.

The teacher always is a facilitator, a guide of the learning process, not only that, surely is an active character full of knowledge to develop skills in him/her self.

The case of students is important to take in consideration, because, their personality implicates responsability with learning and take action about anything, also they must be respectfull and be concious that work team, is not easy, but they are part of society and of course they can realize that working in groups can be more efficiently in many ways.

When we are talking about Independent learning, we are referring to many ways to support that, everyone has the same importance which helps to get objectives more efectevly.

Reflections!

Es importante considerar que el papel intelectual del maestro que imparte educacion a distancia es impredecible, ya que su formacion con esta tecnologia lo lleva a tener aun mas responsabilidad del proceso de aprendizaje, pero tambien a tener mas libertad para trabajar.
en esta unidad aprendí mucho de lo que se debe hacer para planear y analizar los distintos aspectos que conlleva la educacion a distancia, ya que detras de todo un plan, carta descriptiva o curriulum hay una gran gama de investigaciones asocioadas a lo que es la educacion en esta modalidad, ademas de que implica una gran dispocision al analisis.

Plan of online course

PLAN OF ONLINE COURSE
by Karen PDA.
Every online course requires a previous study that contains the main elements to put in practice a real e-course, such as: units, topics, objectives, methods and methodology, techniques, assignments, practice, evaluation, general and specific bibliography or references.
It is important to take in consideration to clarify every single definition before start to give general information about the course because, as a recommendation the description of any course it must be clear and concrete.
These are some points to help to design an online course:
1.- The objectives have to be based on students needs and make sure about the previous knowledge from them.
2. It is very important to specify the objectives into the course, and make a review of every point on this.
3. The learning goals also depend on the institution or academy where students are learning. Because it could be adequate to the professional development.
4. The activities may have to be active and focus on investigation by themselves because an online course doesn’t have space limits and the learning process it not occur at the same time.
5. Make a time line: because in this methodology the chronological steps are very important to have a begging and end in order to be more organize and facility the evaluation.
6. Use appropriate material, in this case authentic if the level is superior. The bibliography has to be contemporary with true fundaments.
7. Make sure that the internet system is working well, sometimes the uploading way is slow. It implicates patience to technology.
8. To have a control of Platform and group discussion. It is necessary to post the date and time to start everything that can involves all participants.
9. Give a guide of text recommendation: or not only texts but some material that it could be useful after every unit and improve the knowledge.
10. giving information about the type of evaluation and specify if each unit has a different way to evaluate, for example an essay, an interview, an exercise etc.

Cursos en Línea.....descripción!

Los cursos en linea que he tomado, han sido pocos y con un desempeño bajo por mi parte. Aun estoy tratando de adentrarme a este mundo que cada dia me sorprende mas, y ahora pienso que será cada vez mas util para mi y mi estado emocional y de salud.

Nunca he usado la plataforma, y me han comentado que es interesante, he visto algunas conferencias en linea, y mi hermana alguna vez me platicó de su experiencia con esta modalidad en el tec de monterrey me pareció algo de primer mundo, muy apantallador. y conforme fui concociendo el mecanismo, he comprobado que es efectivo.

el blackboard ha sido mi unica experiencia hasta le momento, y claro, algunas investigaciones libres en paginas electronicas que ayudan de la misma forma.

de acuerdo con un trabajo que encontré en linea de
Project Manager
E-Journal User Study
Sponsored by Andrew Mellon Foundation

los online features que se manejan son:

Videos or animated graphics

Hyperlinks from one article to a cited article in the same journal

Hyperlinks from one article to a cited article in a different journal at no charge
Hyperlinks from an article to a scientific database
Hyperlinks from an article to an author's website

Pay-per-view
Electronic manuscript submission
Online peer reviews

Access to articles in press (pre-press)

En donde se menciona que tambien surgen problemas con estos tipos de herramientas, como problemas con la imagen, resolucion, que la informacion se cargue lentamente, las fuentes o citas no sean especificadas en el material, la letra pequena en imagenes PDF y HTML.

por ultimo.... im getting blind because i dont use the screen protector...