Survey Questions

Survey Questions

1-      For what purposes did you use your blog during the Fled 412 course?

2-      Did engaging with the blog tasks affect your view about your practice teaching experience or not? How?

3-      a. What is your opinion about posting your tasks to your blog where there was an audience?

b. Approximately, how many posts of your peers did you read for each task? 

c. Did reading your peers’ posts affect you or your own posts? How?

4-      a. How many of the comments you received did you read?

b. Did receiving comments and writing comments affect your learning? How?

5-      a. How did you feel about using blogs as part of this course?

b. Do you think that a blog was an appropriate platform or not in order to think critically on your teaching experience during practicum?

6-      a. What can you say about the technical issues related to blogging?

b. Was it easy or difficult for you to adapt and continue blogging within this course?

7-      a. Would you prefer to do paper based tasks or blog tasks within this course?

b. Can you share if you think one is superior to the other with the reasons?

8-      a. During the Fled 412 course did you think back on your and your friends’ practice teaching experience? If yes, what helped you?

b. Does thinking on your practicum experience help you or not; how?

9-      During this course, have you felt as part of an online practice community or not? Why/why not?

10-   Do you think that blogging helped you make progress or not in terms of being a reflective teacher?

(Reflective teacher is smo who thinks back on his/her teaching experience critically in order to improve professionally.)

Journal Entries

TASK 7: Journal entries-Due May 30                                            

Description: A personal diary summarizes what you learn in the classroom observations. You can find reflection questions to guide these entries in the front pages of your reading package (Appendix 1). You are responsible for writing 2 entries. Post this on your blogs: 2 journal entries within the same post, seperated by headings such as "Journal Entry 1" and "Journal Entry 2". 

Label the post as "Task 7"

Name the post as "Journal Entries"

Peer Feedback and Self Evaluation

TASK 6: a. Peer Feedback & b. Self Evaluation-Due May 30

a. Description (Peer feedback): A critical evaluation of the videos of the official presentations of five peers. Two peers should be your partners and the other three from class, someone you haven’t observed before. You can find reflection questions to guide these entries in the front pages of your reading package (Appendix 6). Make sure you follow up on the comments you received from your peers. Watch your friends' videos and post your evaluation on your own blog by mentioning your friends' first names only. Please, seperate the evaluations with titles. Don't write your comment under the videos, post your peer feedback on your own blog for 5 friends within the same post with seperated headings. 

b. Description (Self-evaluation): You will be reflecting on two of your official presentations of your own choice. This should be a critical evaluation. What were the strengths and weaknesses? What could have been done differently? Any suggestions for others? What did you learn? Make sure you integrate the feedback you received from others. Post this on your blogs.

Name your post as "Peer Feedback and Self Evaluation"
Label it as "Task 6"

Video Upload

Description: Video-tape your official presentation, upload a 10-20 minute section of the most active part of your lesson to your professional blog. Along with this, include a short description of the context. Who are the learners? How many students are there? What type of school is it? What is the grade level? This description should be informative enough so that your peers in class can comment.

-Make sure you DO NOT use any school, teacher, student names in your blogs. 

Due: May 9

Reflection on the designed activity Task

First Step: Choose the students in one of your training classes as a target group. Create a class activity/task for the target group and apply this activity in one of your official/unofficial presentations. (You have already done at least one of your official/unofficial presentations. You can choose an activity from that presentation if you want.)

Second Step: Describe and evaluate this activity/task. What went well/wrong? Why? What could have been done better? Would you use this activity again? What would you change if you did it again?

Third Step: Visit your classmates’ blogs; choose 2 peers’ posts related to this task and comment on them. 

DUE: April 22

Video Editing in Windows Movie Maker

1- First, go to the start menu in your computer and search for "movie maker" or "windows live movie maker". 
2- If you can't find the software, then you need to download it. 
3- Click on movie-maker-download and get the appropriate version of the movie maker for your computer's operating system (Windows 8, 7, Vista, etc.) for free. 
4- Video editing workshop is on April 11, Thursday. 
5- If you need more guidance watch these videos which explain the basics of editing videos in movie maker.

     

Credits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzcASlpA7qg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYiIo9AfHuM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW55DRxEloI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMkhXnaOrhw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qqWhqVmg6Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On-ti-_2iFY

Classroom Management Task

Task Description: Design a classroom management tool considering one of your training classes as the target group. Describe and evaluate this tool on your blog. Talk to your cooperating teacher about the tool and take feedback from the cooperating teacher of the target class about the possible effectiveness of your tool and mention it in your post. (You don't have to apply the tool in class, but ask your cooperating teacher what would happen if somebody used that tool in that class.)

Include answers to these questions within your post:

• Why is your tool appropriate, effective and functional?
• What kind of problems would you anticipate if you applied this tool in class? How would you deal with them?

Finally: Don't forget to answer the following two questions:

• How do you plan to reflect on your own classroom management when you start teaching? How will you evaluate your own classroom management? 

Post your comment to your blog. Visit your classmates’ blogs; choose 2 peers’ posts related to Task 3 and comment on them.

DON'T FORGET TO LABEL YOUR POST AS "TASK 3"!

WRITE YOUR POST TITLE AS "CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT TASK".

Due: March 28