ETEC 510 - Design of Technology - Supported Learning Environments
Designing to Learn:
ETEC 510 was a valuable experience for me as we learned the importance of design in educational technologies using constructivist and sociocultural theories to guide us.
One of the assignments from this course was to either modify or create a new entry for the class wiki. At the time of this course I was working with OpenSim a great deal so I decided to write my entry on Sloodle. Sloodle is a an opensource program that links Moodle and OpenSim together for learning in a virtual environment. After a lot of research I was able to create my page, which I have listed as an artefact below. What I found interesting is that my site was indexed in the top two pages of Google for different search terms relating to Sloodle. This was a shock for me as I am used to the typical classroom where you submit in an assignment and the only person who reads it is the teacher. From this experience I began to reflect on the importance of sharing what I have learned from my research and understanding, to allow others to gain from my research. This is why I placed ETEC 510 as a seiche wave, as the course pushed against my boundaries of how to learn in the 21st century and the importance of sharing what I have learned.
ETEC 510 was a valuable experience for me as we learned the importance of design in educational technologies using constructivist and sociocultural theories to guide us.
One of the assignments from this course was to either modify or create a new entry for the class wiki. At the time of this course I was working with OpenSim a great deal so I decided to write my entry on Sloodle. Sloodle is a an opensource program that links Moodle and OpenSim together for learning in a virtual environment. After a lot of research I was able to create my page, which I have listed as an artefact below. What I found interesting is that my site was indexed in the top two pages of Google for different search terms relating to Sloodle. This was a shock for me as I am used to the typical classroom where you submit in an assignment and the only person who reads it is the teacher. From this experience I began to reflect on the importance of sharing what I have learned from my research and understanding, to allow others to gain from my research. This is why I placed ETEC 510 as a seiche wave, as the course pushed against my boundaries of how to learn in the 21st century and the importance of sharing what I have learned.
ETEC 510 Wiki:
Design Project:
The next artefact was from a group project where we created a learning platform called "ThinkSpace" which integrated a Virtual World, Joomla and Moodle to create an integrative learning environment. With the help of my group I was able to recreate this site and create a demonstration for my peers to be able to see. For this project as a group we did a lot of research, and using our different talents we were able to synthesis that knowledge into a meaningful paper and website. One of the key thoughts that I remember from this process, and that I still use today is the Community of Inquiry Model by Garrison, Anderson and Archer. It was instrumental in understanding how students can learn in an online environment.
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