Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Debbie Loeffler

Hi,
 I am looking forward to working with everyone!  It has taken a little while to get back into school after a great winter break. The last few days the sun has been shining and my outdoor projects have been calling.  I hope to get my pond and a waterfall finished this year. I love to garden. With 40 acres I have plenty of space to indulge in my hobby.  My husband and I love to travel. We were in Roatan over winter break. We plan to go to Sedona Az. in March for baseball spring training. I am a semi retired emergency nurse.  My goal is to design and teach online nursing courses.
 I hope this class will help provide a foundation for evidenced based teaching and design. As a nurse I have strived to develop my professional nursing career based on an evidenced based practice and I encourage others to do so.
In this week’s reading assignment three lines stood out for me and are questions I will ask as I progress in the development of design and teaching:
 1. “Technology that promotes learning” is the technology appropriate and does it promote learning?
2. Is it “compatible with the human learning process” ?
3.  Does it meet “psychological learning requirements”?
I am looking forward to completing  the multimedia projects outlined in the syllabus and developing technical skills in multimedia production. I think it will be a fun and interesting semester.  
Reference
 Clark, R., C. & Mayer R.,E. (2008) e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven guidelines for consumers and designer of multimedia learning. (2nd ed.). Retrieved from http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-eBooks.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Debbie: I just did a little search to see what Roatan was. Looks beautiful. I have always lived with the mantra, "life's a mountain, not a beach." But the more I look at beautiful pictures like these, and the harder it is to mountaineer as I age, the more appealing it looks. Is that an affordable vacation location?

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  2. I too love the mountains having lived in Lake Tahoe for 15 years and grew up just outside of Yosemite. Roatan can be a very affordable vacation if you can get the right airfare. We have gone 6 times in the last 5 years each year we say its the last time,time for some new places but as usual we are already planning next years trip which will include Utila.

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