3.7 Communication & Collaboration
Candidates utilize digital communication and collaboration tools to communicate locally and globally with students, parents, peers, and the larger community. (PSC 3.7/ISTE 3g)
Artifact: Portfolio Assessment Rubric
Reflection:
This artifact is a culminating portfolio created after completing three courses about online learning. The coursework for these prepared me to implement a six-week online unit in one of my classes. This artifact contains twenty-four artifacts and reflections from that online learning experience. My contribution was to build this online course and implement the six-week unit. Within the learning management system, I created modules for students to access content, assessments to evaluate student performance, syllabus to provide pertinent course information, course schedule to keep students on track, and resources to help students with any other need. After implementing the course, I compiled and reflected on the artifacts from the course in order to create this artifact.
This artifact demonstrates mastery of standard 3.7. The standard states that I can utilize digital communication and collaboration tools to communicate locally and globally with students, parents, peers, and the larger community. Throughout this unit, varieties of tools were used for communication and collaboration. Communication took place with students through discussion boards, synchronous sessions and student feedback. Students were able to collaborate with each other with the synchronous session feature in the learning management system. Parents were able to create observer accounts within the learning management system. I was able to communicate with parents by sending them messages within the learning management system. They are also able to observe all work completed by their students. Students are able to communicate with their peers and the larger community by creating wiki pages where they publish work that they complete. Wiki pages also give students the opportunity to collaborate with peers locally and globally.
Through creating this artifact, I feel that I my knowledge of the learning management system has increased. Technology is rapidly growing and there is always something new to learn about. The learning management system has so many features and external tools that a teacher could learn something new every day. This makes technology overwhelming to many teachers, which highlights the importance of a technology coach who can support teachers through this implementation. This was a great opportunity to try new features that I have not tried before. If I could change anything, I would try to incorporate more new features into this learning experience. The most effective way to learn how to use these tools is by trying them. Trying these new resources can be a risk at times, but the reward of finding effective strategies I worth it.
The work that went into this artifact affects student learning more than anything else does. The students found the new resources to be a refreshing break from the traditional strategies that they are accustomed to. They also benefitted from the quick feedback made possible by the learning management system. This experience will go on to impact student learning in other courses that I teach. I feel that it will also affect school improvement and faculty development. I will share many of the tools that I found to be helpful. This impact can be measured by student test scores, student course evaluations or walkthrough evaluations from other teaches.
Reflection:
This artifact is a culminating portfolio created after completing three courses about online learning. The coursework for these prepared me to implement a six-week online unit in one of my classes. This artifact contains twenty-four artifacts and reflections from that online learning experience. My contribution was to build this online course and implement the six-week unit. Within the learning management system, I created modules for students to access content, assessments to evaluate student performance, syllabus to provide pertinent course information, course schedule to keep students on track, and resources to help students with any other need. After implementing the course, I compiled and reflected on the artifacts from the course in order to create this artifact.
This artifact demonstrates mastery of standard 3.7. The standard states that I can utilize digital communication and collaboration tools to communicate locally and globally with students, parents, peers, and the larger community. Throughout this unit, varieties of tools were used for communication and collaboration. Communication took place with students through discussion boards, synchronous sessions and student feedback. Students were able to collaborate with each other with the synchronous session feature in the learning management system. Parents were able to create observer accounts within the learning management system. I was able to communicate with parents by sending them messages within the learning management system. They are also able to observe all work completed by their students. Students are able to communicate with their peers and the larger community by creating wiki pages where they publish work that they complete. Wiki pages also give students the opportunity to collaborate with peers locally and globally.
Through creating this artifact, I feel that I my knowledge of the learning management system has increased. Technology is rapidly growing and there is always something new to learn about. The learning management system has so many features and external tools that a teacher could learn something new every day. This makes technology overwhelming to many teachers, which highlights the importance of a technology coach who can support teachers through this implementation. This was a great opportunity to try new features that I have not tried before. If I could change anything, I would try to incorporate more new features into this learning experience. The most effective way to learn how to use these tools is by trying them. Trying these new resources can be a risk at times, but the reward of finding effective strategies I worth it.
The work that went into this artifact affects student learning more than anything else does. The students found the new resources to be a refreshing break from the traditional strategies that they are accustomed to. They also benefitted from the quick feedback made possible by the learning management system. This experience will go on to impact student learning in other courses that I teach. I feel that it will also affect school improvement and faculty development. I will share many of the tools that I found to be helpful. This impact can be measured by student test scores, student course evaluations or walkthrough evaluations from other teaches.