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** 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity **
====Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers: ====

====c. promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes. ====

====d. model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments. ====

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=MEDT 7472 Intro to Distance Education=

Annotation: In this project we were required to build an entire unit using some of the techniques and tools that we learned through the course modules.

Reflection: I decided that I would create an instructional unit for a topic that I actually taught in my own classroom. I wanted to make it fun for my students to learn about Jonathan Swift and the satire style of writing that he was known for creating. The idea behind the project was to have the students create their own satire that pokes fun of the mainstream problems in American society. I chose pictures for my introduction that would hook my students and help develop some type of response in their own personal way of thinking. The students were exploring real world issues through the development of their cartoons. My students used Toondoo, a web 2.0 tool, to create and personalize their cartoons to their liking. Upon completion of this unit it was obvious that most of the students understood satirical style because almost all of them used satire correctly in their cartoons. After each student completed their project they shared them with each other in an education blog program called Edmodo. After sharing their Toondoo cartoons, they were required to choose one of their favorite cartoons and write a brief blog post pointing out the satire of the cartoon. The cartoon below is an example of one of my student's Toondoo cartoons that exhibits the satire style very well.



=MEDT 7467 Web Design for Instruction= [|Descriptive Statistics Webquest]

Annotation: The link below will take you to the culminating activity from a webquest that I designed to teach statistics in a math 2 unit. The webquest that you can find at the link above was a project that was designed for an individual to work through with very little direction from an actual face-to-face teacher. This webquest takes students through a step-by-step process of calculating mean, median, mode, range interquartile range, and standard deviation.

Reflection: The instruction models the techniques that the students will need to be able to calculate these statistics. This webquest has several models and instructions as well as practice worksheets for student to work through independently. The webquest is design to be a linear process of instruction with a culminating task at the end where students can apply what they learned in an alternative assessment project. In the culminating project students are asked to collect and evaluate their own data that they can gather through using Google forms or through the safe custom search engine that has preloaded sites to search. Students are given a creative license to find quantitative data that relates to the real world and their own personal interests. All of the activities completed in this webquest are designed to be turned in through each student's Edmodo account.

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