Karen Ferguson
Tamaki College
Online Learning
MIT 2015
K. Ferguson
Tamaki College
“Achieving at NCEA outside of the classroom”
The Original Plan ...
Spending more of the class time for group analysis work and skills practice
Offering the course to students who do not have space on their timetable
Starting the DVC course early, in Year 10
Setting up the Course
Working Online
The Instructions ...
Video screencasts with step by step
How To’s for each stage.
Separate area on the site for all students to refer to.
Specific to their needs
The Navigation ...
Simplicity
Small blocks of instructions and information on each step
Checklist at the end to ensure everything is covered
Google+ Communities ...
Forum style support
Share work
Ask questions
Help each other
Design Portfolio ...
Students make Google Sites to present their work as a portfolio
Course Enrolment ...
Students fill in a Google form to enrol on the course
This spreadsheet is then used to track their work
The Process
Working Online
Sharing ...
Drive folders shared with the teacher
All documents put in this folder so teachers and students can access
Feedback ...
Comments on documents can be done at any time
The same process as any other student in your class - just because they are not physically in your class does not mean the process is different
Student Use ...
Students take the prepared documents from the site and repurpose them.
Check lists created from instructions
Interesting to see what happens with less teacher “control”
Using the Course
Student Voice
Isaak and Suzie
Looking Ahead
Working Online
Finishing ...
Students realistically have until the end of the year to complete the project
The entries will be done at the start of next year for completed work
Looking Ahead ...
Drawing board projector and recorder.
Rewindable learning for those in the class.
More opportunities for online projects
Good V Bad ???
Good …
Bad …
Will I do this again???