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ETC645 Lesson 1 Reflections
This instructor reflection is help students to improve their learning to meet their own and the class’s expectations.  
We have finished Lesson 1 instructions.  I hope it gave you better ideas on how our class works.  Thanks for your actively participating in Lesson 1 discussions and other lesson activities.  Here are some reflections to share with you to help you to enhance your further learning.  Group 1 has done a great job facilitating our lesson 1 discussions.  Please do continue your good work in the upcoming lessons.
·      Lesson Discussions
o   Post your responses as early as possible so your good ideas won’t be taken by our classmates.  We have a very heavy schedule of reading assignments.  It is important to complete the lesson readings before the lesson starts.
o   Key word for Subject field: Did you update the Subject field for each of your postings?  Do update with the relevant keywords so our threaded discussions will be easier to follow when we are ready to read and to reply to the postings.
o   Avoid initiating a new thread for our lesson discussion.  Use “reply” to post your responses.
o   Be sure to respond to the questions raised by others to your postings.
o   Lesson 1 discussion reflections
o   Why is it important to learn instructional design for online learning?  Some of us may or may not have chance to teach or to design online learning instructions. Learning about online learning instructional designs is to help us to know how wide human learning can be.  Online technologies are considered to have the potential to extend human learning.  By knowing how far online technologies may extend human learning helps us to teach and design in online or non-online learning environments.  Even though, we may not have the chance to teach or to design online instructions, it is almost impossible that we do not integrate online technology to support our non-online instructions.
o   Learner interaction
§  When we study online learning, one thing we should understand: Online learning is not taking FTF instruction and putting them online.  Online learning has its own learning paradigm, and theoretical framework.  Learner interaction is the key element in online learning. More specifically, online learner-learner interaction is very critical because without it, online learning would be more like correspondence learning.
§  In our 2nd key discussion question, we pondered how attributes of learning related to six forms of online interaction.  This is a very challenging question because it requires us to be able to think in a larger picture of learning and online interaction.  I suggest that you to draw a diagram to help you to relate the two domains to each other to help you understand online learning.  What sort of diagram may you draw to show the relationships between two domains?
o   Here are a few questions to help you to challenge your understanding in online learning.
§  Within all six types of interactions, what interactions are more critical to online learning?
§  Technology is critical to online learning.  Why is technology not included in the six types of online interaction?  Shouldn’t learner-interface/technology interaction be critical?
§  If online technology shouldn’t be seen as replicating FTF instructions, what role should online learning play in human learning?
o   In our lesson discussion feedback, we provide both individual qualitative and quantitative feedback to help you to support your learning.  The quantitative feedback is based on your individualized personal learning analytic data.  The purpose is to help you to understand your lesson discussion performance throughout the class by comparing yourself, to classmates, the whole class, and previous classes.  Learning analytic is an emerging instructional technology to support us to build our PLEs. I hope you will find them useful to your learning.  Extracting these individualized data isn’t easy in BBLearn system. I will do my best to provide you with individualized data to help you to organize your PLE.  Quantity doesn’t represent our learning performance.  So we have qualitative feedback to help us to improve our lesson discussion performance.
o   I think we have many quality postings although our average postings were below the historical average. We do focus on the quality of the discussion not just quantity.  Without a certain level of quantity, the quality could be limited. I hope we will have both positive quality and quantity discussions in upcoming discussions.
§  Lesson 1 Discussion Statistical Analysis
§  Our average postings: 9.81
§  Historical average posting: 12.59
§  View ETC645 Interactive Lesson Discussion Statistics: https://sites.google.com/site/etc645/discussion-analysis
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·      PLE
o   Visit iGoogle/Chrome/mobile apps to monitor our class activities, such as twitter announcements.
·      Assignment 2
o   Prepare Assignment 2. It is highly recommended you try out the tools you evaluate and not just observe.
·      Group work
o   Start your group communication and group planning.
o   Lesson moderation: Group 2 moderate Lesson 2.
o   Prepare your group work by coordinating your individual assignments (assignment 2 & 3).
o   Your group can use your BBCollaborate group conferencing room to collaborate and coordinate the group tasks. Bookmark your group space for easy access.
§  When you log in to your group space, you are granted a moderator privilege.
§  Your group conference space can be accessed via iOS app on iPad, iPhone etc. See: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blackboard-collaborate-mobile/id546742528?mt=8 If using a mobile app to access it, you will only have regular access to the session, not moderator privilege.
§  ETC645 Room I/Group 1: https://bblearn.nau.edu/webapps/bb-collaborate-BBLEARN/external.guest.session.launch.event?uid=ab4d88d5-4411-4b06-a8b2-aad7cb794886
§  ETC645 Room II/Group 2: https://bblearn.nau.edu/webapps/bb-collaborate-BBLEARN/external.guest.session.launch.event?uid=ab4d88d5-4411-4b06-a8b2-aad7cb794886
§  ETC645 Room III/Group 3: https://bblearn.nau.edu/webapps/bb-collaborate-BBLEARN/external.guest.session.launch.event?uid=ab4d88d5-4411-4b06-a8b2-aad7cb794886
§  ETC645 Room IV/Group 4: https://bblearn.nau.edu/webapps/bb-collaborate-BBLEARN/external.guest.session.launch.event?uid=4d294132-aba4-400f-b173-9edc39851ce5
§  ETC645 Room V/Group 5: https://bblearn.nau.edu/webapps/bb-collaborate-BBLEARN/external.guest.session.launch.event?uid=70f8d3af-e296-4610-b312-b709141522f1
§  ETC645 Room VI/Group 6: https://bblearn.nau.edu/webapps/bb-collaborate-BBLEARN/external.guest.session.launch.event?uid=89e8ae8c-e400-4ba5-8b7a-49fd84c16855


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