Hello everyone!
My name is Sam Gedeborg and I live in Nampa, Idaho where I work at Victory Charter School, which focuses on Math and Science and follows the Harbor Method. I teach Computers, Mathematics, and Spanish classes and improving my ability to improve learning by developing multimedia materials (especially with my Spanish classes) is the main reason I took this class.
Since this is my last elective before I graduate I have had the privilege of taking most of my Instructional Design and Instructional Message Design classes and so my hopes are to now to supplement that knowledge with the ideas and concepts of how to work with multimedia (hopefully interactive) to accomplish goals and standards of a class Design.
I look forward to working with each one of you and am excited for all the possibilities that will come through this class, and hope to gain ideas and keep improving as an educator throughout this course so that my students will be better prepared to learn the concepts that will aid them in their learning.
Computers, Math AND Spanish? That is quite a feat!
ReplyDeleteIn response to the readings, I felt very refreshed that we looked at some research that wasn't 100% behind eLearning as the solution to all that we do. The focus I gained on both the text book and the online article is that while online instruction is helpful and can offer some of the same benefits as traditional learning, we need to focus on interaction and getting the students involved in the learning. "Receptive types of e-learning fall at the lower end of the interactivity scale, as they incorporate little or no opportunity for explicit learner responses" (Clark and Mayer, 27).
ReplyDeleteCommericials, in my opinion, (such as the Ford F-150 one we evaluated), tend to teach on a receptive level while the Voice Thread, because of it's interactivity, was much more guided discovery by nature.