CEP+810

CEP 810: Teaching for Understanding with Technology
(Sue Way) Love the content - more activity content. First two weeks are too much busy work....not enough time to provide effective feedback on the blogs. Nothing is due the last week.

(Sue Wright) Week 7 is when the dead-time starts.

(Sandra Plair) Too top heavy. Not clear about where things go (students are confused).

(Melissa White) 30 (first few weeks); 50 (last few weeks).

(Michael Partridge) Calendar freaks students out - especially if we tweak the due dates. Would be nice to be consistent.

(ALL) Participation points are too ambigious.

(ALL) Constinency......if one uses the ANGEL Gradebook, then all should.

(Sue Way) More support from one another.

Strategies:
 * (Sandra Plair): Pushed a discussion of the presentation to the last day of class. Doesn't open up until then. Stretched out the timeline (Carolyn and Sandra).
 * (Carolyn McCarthy): Used Gradebook to track participation.
 * (Chuck Commeret): Some of the busy work as a prerequisite.
 * (Melissa White): The SIG Presentation has to WOW....see it as a capstone project. Tech plan had to be multimedia.
 * (Sue Way): Open the next section when they finish the first section.
 * (Sue Wright): Moved back all of the SIG projects (Presentation due last week along with Tech Plan). Project proposal and annotations moved back one more week. Database in Google Spreadsheets - of student work (Twitter, Blog, Email) - as well Grading Spreadsheet.
 * (Melissa White):
 * (Sue Wright): Bump up participation during first few weeks.....not heavy enough.
 * (Chuck Commeret): Use NetVibes to "ping" when students post. Create a roadmap for each course - so students can share what/when they've done. Google calendar on the front page of the course.
 * Get rid of calendar altogether - use road map instead.
 * (Sandra Plair) Uses Google Reader to put all their blogs in one place - but not very efficient. Created additional discussion forums - that triggers when something is done. Then Sandra provides a comment in the blog. Then goes back to the discussion - and leaves a comment so student knows that its been graded.
 * (Chuck Commeret): Assignment Tracker sequential and color-coded. Also does it by session (and LEARN). Students enter.