ePortfolio Pitch Video

Catching someone’s attention can be difficult in this busy world. Everyone has their own agenda, problems, and whirlwinds they are going through. So when asked to make a pitch video about my plan to persuade someone that I do not know to read an article I am working on and keep it under two minutes I struggled a little. Just because I think my Innovation Plan is important and will be beneficial, others may not. Especially if they do not teach art. I made the video in a manner to empasize the importance and urgency of incorporating ePortfolios in the classroom.

Enjoy and feedback welcomed!

DLL Final Thoughts

 

Before I started the Digital Learning and Leading program I knew very little about integrating technology into the classroom and I had never heard of the term COVA. Which is choice, ownership, and voice through authentic learning. Incorporating COVA and technology into my classroom has given me the opportunity to create a significant learning environment. I have created an e-portfolio in the DLL class that houses all of my work over the past eighteen months. I have been working hard to learn how to implement a successful change in my teaching environment.

COVA and My Innovation

Creating an innovation plan was new to me. I was lost for a while in what exactly I should do. Using all the information I found while doing the literature reviews and completing the different assignments throughout the course made things clear for me and pointed me in the right direction to implement my innovation plan. I have not been able to totally interject eportfolios into all my classes, but I have worked with some of my advanced students to help them create an eportfolio. This will benefit them just as much as it benefitted me. My personal eportfolio will always be a work in progress, but I am happy with where it is for now. I’m thankful for the DLL program giving me the opportunity and drive to create an eportfolio. This is something that I will continue to build on and improve to benefit myself and my students.

COVA Reflection

I first realized that I had choice, ownership and voice through authentic assignments (COVA) in my first class, 5302. The assignments were very vague. I felt like I stayed lost and confused most of the time. Incorporating technology into my classroom was sometihng that I wanted to do, but I was not comfortable with it.  I actually felt like that about half way through the course it finally hit me one day that I was in control of what I did. We were given assignments as a starting point to create and complete in our own personal way. This is how I teach to my art students, but that is not how I was taught in college. It was hard for me to accept this because everything we were doing was new to me. I do not have a technology background. I had to learn how to use the programs to complete different assignments before I could move forward. It was very difficult. As I look back through my work for all the different classes I can see growth. I started out very unstable and not sure what I should do. I wish I would have gotten things figured out sooner though.

 Although I like the idea of my Innovation Plan, incorporating e-portfolios in the classroom, I don’t think my school is ready for it yet. We do not have the technology to support it. But I am told that as we move forward there will be more opportunities to implement my plan.

Online Course Reflections

When creating an online learning environment the designer must include different learning theories and instructional design theories. This gives the designer a starting point and guidelines to assure a successful learning environment. I have found five instructional design theories that could assist in the creation of an online learning environment. They are discovery based learning, inquiry based learning, situated cognition theory, elaboration theory, and individualized instruction (Pappas, 2017). All of the theories do not have to be used throughout the online course. I have found that different instructional design theories can be used at different points through the course. These theories also have to be combined with learning theories. Theories that help define any learning environment are behaviorism, constructivism, social learning, and cognitivism.

Online Art and the Future

I feel l like this week has been successful in my DLL 5318 course. As I continue to create my online course I question if it is ever really complete, finished? It seems like it is just like creating a piece of artwork, it may never be complete. I see so much information, examples, videos that I could continue to enhance my class with. I think it will never be complete and I am fine with that. I like what I have so far, but I know it can be better. Learning how to create an online class has been awesome. It is something that myself and my students can benefit from.

Bulid, Build, Build

This week I have continued making my online art course to fulfill the reqiurements of my DLL 5318 class. It has become more than just fulfilling requirements though, I’m making an online course that I will be able to use and add to. The course I’m making now is only for five weeks. I need to add one more week to that class eventually. I will continue to make online courses until I have the entire year made. This an idea that I really want to continue making reality. I do not know if my school will ever buy in to the online courses, but hopefully I can find someone that will. It gives students opportunities that they would not have otherwise. One of my problems in this process has been making a way to actually see the artwork in person and not just online. This will not be a real issue in my high school classes, but it will be if I begin teaching at the college level. I guess I will figure that out when the time comes.

 

 

Check out my progress and any feedback is appreciated.

Schoology Access Code: RZHQP-CG63W

Creating an online art course

As I continue to work on creating an online art course I am overwhelmed. I have really enjoyed learning how to make an online course and I think I will be able to benefit from this. Unfortunately, our teacher told us at the very last minute that we had to have resources for our entire five week course turned in today. That is not good for me. I have been building my classes one week at a time and haven’t really thought about my resources for later in the class because that is what our assignment stated. But I spent today gathering things up to fulfill the course requirements but I am not happy with the end result. I will continue adding resources for my class to better serve my students. I am creating this five week course in schoology. I will share the information with all of you so you can check out my progress. I think it is going good so far, I just wish the instructions for what was to be completed this week would have been clearer. This has been a crazy week and getting different instruction than what the assignment stated has thrown me a curve ball. But it is what it is.

Hopefully you will understand what I am trying to do in my class. All feedback is appreciated.

My schoology class:

https://app.schoology.com/course/1132069120/materials

Access Code:

RZHQP-CG63W

 

Creating an Online Course

I have started creating an online art course that I would like to implement as part of my innovation plan in my high school art curriculum. I always have more students sign up for my class than I can accommodate in the allotted space provided. This will give the students that really want to take art in high school a way to participate in my class and not have to take up one of their eight class periods in their day. I want to share my preliminary plan. I will add one more week when needed for the school schedule. Follow this post to see updates to weekly sessions. I will continue to build this course until it contains a full school year of lessons and projects. Any feedback or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Digital Citizenship

 

 Digital Citizenship

Keith Hoke

Lamar University

         Digital Citizenship can be defined as being responsible, respectful, courteous, and safe while using anything digital. Including, but not limited to computers, phones, tablets, cameras, or ipods. This is important to instill in our students because everything they are doing now will stick with them for the rest of their lives. Someone who displays good citizenship, is respectful, responsible, mindful of others needs, courteous, and portrays safety for themselves and others. This correlates very closely to digital citizenship. So in my opinion the only difference in the two definitions is that one revolves around everything digital and the other does not. We should be acting the same and teaching our students to act the same when we are using technology as we would if we were face to face with someone. Unfortunately this is not always the case. A lot of times people “hide” behind the computer and say or do things they would not were they having face to face interaction.