Activity 10.3 Vendor Product Screencast
(1) Aver: AVerVision M50 Document Camera
(2) i>clicker: i>clicker
(3) Scholastic: Expert Space
Week 9
Activity 9.3 Using Learning Management Systems (LMS)
One communication tool I would use is announcements. Being a central access point, the LMS is a perfect place to post important information. It would be hard to miss, impossible to get lost, would reach all students regardless of attendance and easy to reference at any time. These are features of benefit to both the teacher and the students. Announcements posted on LMS also give the teacher the option to reduce time spent in class on announcements, which might be otherwise better utilized.
I would use assignment drop boxes as an assessment tool. This can enhance classroom time which does not have to be spent on the collecting of homework. Students don’t have to worry about last minute printer problems, and can submit at their convenience before it is due. It can help me with my tracking and organization of everyone’s assignments. I can immediately know who has missed the deadline. It can also mean I don’t have to carry a pile of papers home, as I can access them from any computer. Any name forgotten on an assignment will no longer be a problem.
A course calendar is an organization tool I would use which can display deadlines for students. Students’ use of the calendar can help in their learning of time management, a critical skill. It can help foster their taking on of responsibility for being aware of and meeting deadlines. The benefits had of using announcements are also had with the use of a course calendar. Students won’t have any worries about not knowing an important date or deadline.
Linking or embedding video is a content tool that I would use. It is another modality that augments material covered in class. It can be viewed when convenient for the student, and they have control over what parts are viewed fast or slow, or repeated. They can even view it with their parents. If I have more videos for the material than can be fit into the class time, having it on the LMS becomes a solution. Videos can also be used as teasers or openers for a lecture that students watch beforehand.
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