Presentation for iMoot2012

1. Fran Lo
Connecticut, USA

2. •Bestof F2F and online instruction
•Seamless

3.  Middle school English teacher
 Teacher tech support
 Background systems development,
F2F user support
 Moodle blended (hybrid) 3 years

4. My essential question

5. Key decision

6. • F2F meetings
• Digital tools
• Links to resources
• Separate team work area
• Chats jury deliberations
• Example: Mock Trial

9. • Acting / drama F2F
• Shakespeare thru
performance
• Discussions-moodle
• Resources-moodle
• Research/share –
moodle
• Present research F2F

10. • Not flashcards
• Not taking class time
• Not glossary=one entry per word
• Social
• Rich source of info

12. • New skills/tools - F2F
• Online research tools
(databases)
• Related tools (citation
machine)

13.  Online text assignment
 Student private reflection
 Student problems/roadblocks
 Undivided personal teacher attention
 Helped me identify problems quickly

16. • Lesson (moodle 1.9) –
path through tasks,
assessments control
progress.
• Many chances evaluate
websites/info
• Valid? Biased? True?
• F2F convo

18. • Proctoring
• Students choose
keyboard essay tests
 Image from clipart

19.  Surveymonkey - online
 Analyze – F2F, groups, Excel

20.  Vocab
 Seeing the pics for the words
 the fact that we could use it a a diffrent form
of work online instead of just writing it with a
pen and pencil
 it was good to study from because there were
all these different sentences.
 that we didn't have to hand things in, we
could just put them on the moodle.
 It was easy, fun, and we could access it from
home

21.  Original reason for Moodle – secure
discussion
 Allows for reflection
 Eliminates time pressure
 Encourages participation
 Students write more (but perceive as talking)

22.  Thinking outside class
 Extend class
 Parallel class
 All participate
 Changes class dynamic

23.  Students share work
 Plan for technical glitches

24.  Hand in work
 Share work
◦ Speaking skills in F2F class

26.  What do you want students to learn?

27.  New skills
 New activities
 Don’t assume students have skills
 Strategy:
◦ Give task, resources
◦ Mistakes
◦ Help each other

28.  Course entry: Clear short written
instructions
 “What do the directions say?”

29.  Include due date
 Short video (Jing)
 Alternative if
technical difficulties
 Check your email…

30.  Units = Topics (vs. week)
 Some topics change
 Some same all year (vocabulary)

32.  Acceptable use policy
◦ Behavior you expect
◦ Consequences
 Communicate with parents
◦ Why, examples
◦ Monitoring, consequences
◦ Alternatives

33.  Identify
◦ Behavior
◦ Progress
◦ Problems…
 Emails –
◦ Forum posts
◦ Uploads

34. Link to reply directly

35.  Chats, discussions, wiki,
reflections, quiz….
 Gradebook,comments - private
 Assignments – private feedback
 Your forum posts - public

36.  Private F2F convo
 Private/public F2F attaboys…

37.  Best F2F & online instruction
 Use together
 1 – learning objectives
 2 - what belongs F2F vs. online
 3 - logistics

38.  Sample website:
http://tinyurl.com/mrslosample
 Docs: http://www.scribd.com/francesblo
 Email: flo at saint-bernard.com
 @francesblo
 Blog:
http://adventuresonlineteaching.blogspot.com

39. Clipart