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LTEC 5510 Week 13


Week 13 Blog:

My course is pretty much complete. Additional feedback from peer reviews will be necessary, but I don’t plan on making any drastic changes.  I have a rough draft of my job aide done, and it should be finished after I get my feedback from my partner. I assumed that the Job Aide was going to be one of the more difficult parts of this course. I don’t like writing long papers. But when I started discussing how the class worked, I found it very easy to write. The only thing I have left to do is the presentation. While part of me thinks it won’t be that difficult, I know better than to believe that.

I entered this course believing that my material as a biology teacher would have made the creation of the course simple. I predicted wrong. While it was nice to have old worksheets, PowerPoints, quizzes, and links to YouTube videos in my career, that in many ways slowed me down.  Having old material made me a little complacent.  As someone teaching the same subject for six years, I started to rely more on skimming through the stuff I had made the year the day before the lesson and just going with it. As mentioned in my previous entry, online curriculum, as many teachers are finding out right now, doesn’t translate one to one with physical teaching. Had I picked a topic I was less familiar with, it might have taken longer to develop a curriculum, but that planning would have saved me a lot of time with the implementation of the course.

Had I made this course a second time, I would have relied less on worksheets, and I would have added more readings and made deeper discussion questions. I would have worried less about making every assignment match some sort of point value. Weighted assignment groups, something I discovered very late into the creation of the project, solves this problem. I also believe that my experience creating quiz questions with the canvas quiz tools would lead to better questions for a future course.

The shelter-in-place COVID-19 requirements, strictly for my graduate schoolwork, was helpful.  Not being employed gave me a lot of time to explore the canvas tools in a way I wouldn’t have been able to have my schedule continued the way it was.  It also gave me time to work on my other course this semester. Finally, it seems to have crystallized the importance of online learning.  We will see much more of it in the future. Considering the fact that I was very close to quitting this master's program about a year ago, I am glad I am learning it now.

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