I am creating a course and one of the requests from a SME was to create an "interactive something" that could capture initial thoughts from a series of essential questions. Some of the ideas were capturing ideas in a Wordle (that was embedded), using a text box, or creating a sketch pad. I looked into Wordle as a Web Object but that doesn't seem like it will work well. We have done a poll earlier in the course.
My question: do you have any interactive tools that can be used to capture and display initial thoughts in a course?
Sure - we are structuring the course with an activate - learn - reflect theme. So, for each unit we would like learners to gauge where they are and "activate" their views in relation to the topic of that unit. In the first part, we did a poll that gave results after hitting the submit button, which worked well. Along those lines, still in the activate section but for a new unit, we would like to do something similar where the learner would input his/her views and there would be an output in a somewhat non-standard way. I guess this is the pre-assessment. Here is the prompt:
The essential questions for this unit are: Is it important to acknowledge your identities and student identities in class and school? Why or why not? How does this acknowledgement affect/not affect student outcomes? Jot down your initial thoughts about the essential questions:
We've done this with a storyline course, with like a notebook or jot pad which can capture learners' ideas, save them on exit and reload them / enable further editing on reentry. Let me know if you'd like to talk further?
Thanks John - we are actually considering buying the widget on eLearning Enhanced I believe. For our purposes, this seems like something that would fit for what we are doing. How did you create the one you are using?
And Dan thank you for the suggest to explain further - always in such a hurry!
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Dan: This sounds intriguing. Could you give a little more context here? Might help us help you. (Which reminds me from that line from Jerry Maguire.)
Sure - we are structuring the course with an activate - learn - reflect theme. So, for each unit we would like learners to gauge where they are and "activate" their views in relation to the topic of that unit. In the first part, we did a poll that gave results after hitting the submit button, which worked well. Along those lines, still in the activate section but for a new unit, we would like to do something similar where the learner would input his/her views and there would be an output in a somewhat non-standard way. I guess this is the pre-assessment. Here is the prompt:
The essential questions for this unit are: Is it important to acknowledge your identities and student identities in class and school? Why or why not? How does this acknowledgement affect/not affect student outcomes? Jot down your initial thoughts about the essential questions:
And, time to watch Jerry Maguire I think!
Dan
We've done this with a storyline course, with like a notebook or jot pad which can capture learners' ideas, save them on exit and reload them / enable further editing on reentry. Let me know if you'd like to talk further?
Thanks John - we are actually considering buying the widget on eLearning Enhanced I believe. For our purposes, this seems like something that would fit for what we are doing. How did you create the one you are using?
And Dan thank you for the suggest to explain further - always in such a hurry!
We custom code from scratch using javascript/PHP.
JaF
Did you find it was useful for the learners?
Yes, although the learners had no clue what was behind the functionality
they were using!
JaF
:) cool thanks!
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