Lora Taub-Pervizpour & Jennifer Jarson
Muhlenberg College
Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference, Bryn Mawr, PA, 5/20/15
Collaborating for Blended Learning
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New Information Technologies
Course Objectives
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The Assignment
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Challenge: Information
Dump
Enhancements: Pedagogical Approaches
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Revised Assignment (Fall 2014)
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Document & Organize
Uncover & Reflect
Share with Peers
Enhancements: Photo Journal
“The journal is your individual representation of the process as you experience and construct it. The photo journal is created in WordPress and includes photos, images, drawings, screenshots, and narrative text and captions that take the viewer behind the scenes of your research process. Think of this as 'the making of' your project, uncovering the questions and thinking behind your project, and documenting the 'what, why, where, and how' of the research you are producing.”
In Tess’s Words
Methodology
Methodology
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-Content
-Reflection on process
-Tools for project
-Tools for research
-Identity
-Images
-Great quote
Current Research Questions
Can digital tools be used...
in ways to help foreground
the process of research?
to help foster students’ identities
and agency as researchers?
A Bird’s Eye View: Coding
| Sample size | Total codes | Avg. codes / journal |
All journals | 17 | 976 | 57.4 |
“Robust” journals | 8 | 524 | 65.5 |
“Limited” journals | 9 | 452 | 50.2 |
A Bird’s Eye View: Journal Pacing
| Pacing quality | |||
Poor | Fair | Good | Excellent | |
“Robust” journals | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
“Limited” journals | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
This source makes me ask was this law only created to protect minors on the internet? Are there other motives with this new law? Will they ban other content that may be appropriate but not agreeable with the Russian’s views? I want to look into what other sites or content this law has been used to ban. This source definitely gave me insight into more issues of censorship occurring in Russia.
--Sara
I’m not saying the UK is a dictatorship, but the pieces are in place for the citizens of the UK to rapidly begin to lose their civil liberties much quicker than they ever could have imagined. As an American citizen I feel very confident that I will be able to express myself freely, and speak my mind however I please, with no consequence from the government. [...] I learned a lot, but I definitely learned to appreciate the freedoms that come with being an American citizen.
--Jesse
Usually, I can’t have more than 4 tabs open at a time or I start to feel disorganized which sometimes makes me anxious. On this particular evening I have so many tabs open they don’t even all show up on the bar itself. These tabs picture the sources I am pulling from while creating my Google doc. The Google doc. is seriously helping me so much–it’s a great organization tool and it’s helping me understand my information in a really efficient way.
--Tess
It was [...] an interesting experience presenting on a topic that no one else in the class had knowledge on besides us, so it made us seem like the experts of the subject matter.
--Hannah
Takeaways
Blended learning can: �
Future research areas
Collaboration and independent reflection
Digging deeper into higher order information literacy skills
Information literacy threshold concepts
Lora Taub-Pervizpour, Muhlenberg College
ltaub@muhlenberg.edu
@ltaub
Jennifer Jarson, Muhlenberg College
jarson@muhlenberg.edu
@jarson