Sunday, November 8, 2009

Week 7 Reflections

It is hard to believe that the course is almost over! For that matter, it is hard to believe that it is already November!!
Despite the fact that there were no required readings or discussions this week, it was a very busy week for this course. This project final project was definitely very extensive. I have to admit, that it probably didn't help that I didn't really get a good start on it until Wednesday evening.
In my mind, prior to our live meeting on Wedesday, I was still pretty confused as to what was expected for the project. I knew what course I was going to do it for, and I had an idea of what assessment tools I might want to use, but didn't really have anything written up, yet. The live meeting was definitely very helpful. Now I understand, from the student end, why the LiveLessons we do at Connections Academy are so useful!
Even with the early confusion, I am fairly pleased with how my project turned out. I am hoping to get some helpful feedback from others in the class this week, so I can make some improvements as needed.

Final Project

I think I'm ready to post my final project now. I ended up publishing it as a website with Google. I have created my project based on the pre-algebra course that I currently teach. Generally, the assessment tools I've used in my project are not ones that I had even thought of using before in the course, although I am definitely seeing the benefit of starting to incorporate them.
You will see on my site that I have used a pre-course survey, a wiki, a virtual gradebook, and a live conferencing software.
Here it is!!
Enjoy :-)