(Same message posted to course twitter & BBLearn Discussion Board area)
This is time that we get very exhausted in our 7-week session because our class progresses rapidly. I noticed that we were less active but we had high quality discussion postings. Don't give up. Lesson than two weeks to finish it. Most of you are very well.
Thanks for your actively participating in Lesson 4 discussions and other lesson activities. Congratulations!
· Lesson 4 Discussions: Set a new record for the Lesson 4 historical average posting (9.33 vs. 9.32).
Don't' forget Team 4's great lesson facilitation; therefore, we had active and quality discussion postings. Please do continue your good work in the upcoming lessons.
· Lesson Discussions
o Continue your active and quality postings.
o Be sure to respond ALL key discussion questions in the 1st posting period. I noticed some did not. Don't' fall behind.
o Continue providing references/citation to support your arguments. Remember we are graduate students and we should be able to apply literature to support our ideas.
· Instructor's Reflections on the key discussion questions
o KEY-1-CoP-Instructor's Reflection: Hard & Soft Online Technology
§ OCoP is more challenging than FTF CoP. Agree?
§ Some educators asked. We must integrate group work into OCoP to reach effective interaction. Do you agree or disagree?
§ OCoP has two important part: Hard technology and Soft technology
§ Online communication technologies are able to deliver social interactions and are; therefore, a viable means to foster and nurture OCoPs. Providing hard technologies, such as online forum, online collaborative tools, and online chats, is not enough to generate ideal social interaction within OCoPs.
§ Ideal social interaction relies upon soft technologies, such as engaging positive social relationships and deepening trust between/among community members. If trust and mutual recognition of competence are not developed over time CoP development may be inhibited.
§ Online technologies enable OCoP members to maximize the exchange of ideas and insight. When the organizations value OCoPs and determine to apply electronic technologies to support them, both hard technologies and soft technologies must be implemented to build and nurture healthy CoPs. Simply providing hard technologies does not result in healthy communities. In fact, soft technologies inspire community members and enable them to grow and share. In other words, developing OCoPs is closer to husbandry than architecture.
o KEY-2-Blended: Instructor's Reflection: Context matters!
§ I am pleased to see we had good postings. Perhaps, there is no one perfect deliver format, FTF, blended, or online.
§ I think teaching, learning and other contexts are the key. There is a time one format is more effective or more efficient for teaching and learning circumstances.
§ As an expert and leader in educational technology, we should prepare ourselves for all types of teaching and instructional designs. It is more just our own preferences.
§ As a competent educational technology expert/leader, we need to learn each format's limitations, weakness, and strengths based on the teaching and learning context. Remember, frequently, we may not design for our own teaching.
o KEY-3-Tagging-Instructor's Reflection: Tag to Build Community
§ Social tagging linkage/architecture is a new way of contributing, organizing, and sharing collaboratively the mass of information and resources available on network environments. To build effective collaborative and sharing communities demands that students be equipped with social tagging skills. The ability of learners to maneuver within social media does not necessarily mean they are capable of engaging in social collaboration through social media. You must teach learners new digital literacy skills in social tagging to apply social media in constructing effective learning community and community learning. It is your responsibility as an educators to prepare and engage learners to "tag to share," "tag to organize," and "tag to collaborate" by ensuring they possess competent social tagging linkage skills and allowing them to ascertain what to tag for sharing with different community learners collaboratively.
§ I think social tagging linkage/architecture is not just for teachers, or classroom only. In fact, any educational organization, institutions, learning community, network community should have their own Social tagging linkage/architecture to support them to strengthen their community resources, knowledge, and skills sharing and collaboration. Agree?!
o KEY-4-QM: Instructor's Reflection
§ ETC is planning to integrate QM into ETC curriculum. Stay contact with ETC even after you graduate. How to stay in contact with ETC after you graduate?
§ ETC Listserv: See how to subscribe at: https://sites.google.com/site/etccommunity/etc-listserv
§ ETC Community Twitter: http://twitter.com/etcommunity; hashtag: #ETCNAU
§ ETC Community Facebook: New Site
· Group work
o I hope your group is working on your final PD. This is a comprehensive project; therefore, it has to be thorough.
o Your final PD is more than just putting content online.
o Based on previous students' learning experiences, here are some areas seem to be weak. Make sure your PD is strong in these areas.
§ Apply multiple online technologies
§ Integrate "Online Constructivist instructional strategies" to make online community activities more active, interactive, and effective.
§ Facilitate "sustainable" "online learning community" for all stakeholders.
§ Included effective assessments so you know whether integrated "Online Constructivist instructional strategies," and online technologies work, in addition to whether the audiences learn the content. Remember learning the content or not is only thing to assess.
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