My Response on Blackboard to Bronwyn

My responses to Bronwyns questions about Evaluating are:

How will you evaluated the success of your new course design?

I believe that the best way of evaluating my course would be a variety of ways.

• From the content and design
• Classroom / Observation
• Students understanding instructions
• Is the level of the course to the students ability
• Will the student retain the information taught in the class and use it for future use.
• Moderation from Peers, collegues
• Evaluation feedback from students, through the course and afterward
• Popularity of course/number of students enrolled.

Who will you ask to review your design befor it goes live?

South Dunedin CLC and Mosgiel CLC will run the course as a pilot and then the course will be moderated by Emma Hogg, at Forth St. The feedback from the above venues will go to the moderator, and also the course will be discussed at a supervisors Venue meeting to go over any questions and answers, needed for the course.

 How will you monitor its success as you use it, and at the end of the first offering?

This course will be monitored by way of the outcomes.  I will monitor the progress of the learners and make suer they are on the right track, and understand instructions.  I will check the progress of the learner and this will will show me if the outcome is achievable to that student, and that they know the subject and will use in their workplace, or home circumstances. I will test thier ability of knowledge through quizzes and exercises.

At the end of the first offering they will get a certificate to show competency.

Evaluation form will be collected from student/ discussion of the course content with student

discussion with CLC staff at staff meetings once a month/ Otago Polytechnic Stakeholders

What criteria will you use to judge its success?

Are the learning outcomes achieved and are they able to take their learning to a higher level. e.g. Level 2 and Level 3 computing Excel.

How will you gather your data?

From students evaluation forms, rating of the course, detailed questionair, written aprrisial, observation, discussions with students.  Evaluation from peers and colleuges of CLC venues, self evaluation.

What will you do with the information obtained?

On our computers we put all our evaluation remarks in our data base and then we run reports and querries this supplies stakeholders of OP and gives us a chance to re-evaluate the course if needed.

Who are the Community Learning Centres

Community Learning Centre 

here is a small presentation on who are the CLC’s  This may take a minute or so to down load but it does work.

This presentation was a mix of the four different CLC Venues in the Dunedin Area and we each took photo’s and then they were put together on a powerpoint display.

We also have Venues in the Central Otago Area, I will leave it up to the Central team to put their venues on their blogs.  Now there’s a challenge Central CLC’s.

 All the CLC’s run the same and we are all a great team, and know that our students and their learning is what is most important to us:)

Our Evaluation forms

Terry suggested  I  could show evidence of how we evaluate our courses

I have just scanned one of our evaluation forms and a copy of what some of our students have commented on from the survey. I have used white out,to  hide students names for security reasons.

 

Evaluation

My evaluation of this course reverts right back to when i first decided to plan it in my DFLP course.  If i go back  and have a look at the whole process from where I started my plan to where I am completing this plan and it actually coming to fruitition and being taught to my students I can then truly Evaluate it.

Starting from the Students, to the Stakeholders, to the students learning styles, to the aims and outcomes, implementation plan, or the resources used. All these things have to be evaluated in a course.

Formative (which is conducted during the teaching instructions of the course to improve  it in any way)

Summative ( which is  conducted at the end of teaching instructions to determine how well the processing of the information  was taught and retained)

Evaluation is necessary for facilitators to keep the quality of the course and material at it highest standards and to keep improving it if needed.  All facilitators should evaluate the course and make sure it fits the stakeholders goal.  They should also evaluate the level of the course and the students who are taking the course, and if they are learning from the course, and asking what will the students take away from this course and will they retain it, to use in their own circumstances, whether it be at home, work, play,or school.

To get this evaluation you can get it from:

• Teaching/Facilitator staff or collegues
• In the Classroom/observation
• Students completing assessments/quizzes/tests
• By Moderation from internal and external stakeholders 
• By self evaluation /by reflection

I will put my evaluation questions and answers for Bronwyn on blackboard.

“Planning the Plan”

Now I am at a stage of actually putting my course together and I am going to show the rest of my Constructing To Enhance Learning collegues the process of how I am going to do it.

I am putting my thoughts down step by steps on how I am going to do this:

• Who are my Learners?
• I am going to take a photo of my students in the Mosgiel Comunity Learning Centre Venue and a photo of the Mosgiel Venue from the street, which I will upload from my computer and save on my USB which i will use later.
• I will also make a link to Otago Polytechnic Web page for the above as well.
• Reference will be linked from my Del iou is
• I will open up Excel 2007 on Computer and have a blank page ready to record
• I  will use “camstudio” to do a screencast of a few examples I will use in my course http://screencasting.blogspot.com/
• Above is a link i have used before that Leigh has put on his blog to show us how to do this.
• I will then open up Wiki and show how I added my ideas on learning styles and what would be best for this course and if it suited my learners.
• I will show how I made my Webpage using google pages.
• I will demonstrate how I used “Snagit” to capture my tools that I will use in my Handouts and examples.
• I will demonstrate how I made my Timeline in “Visio” and then pasted to my Webpage.
• I will show how I add links to my webpage and how to make a Home button.
• Then explain how I put this altogether on a slideshow on Utube, so they can view it and evaluate for me.

My Implementation Plan

Well I have made up a couple of pages on my web page and have made links to them.

The pages linked are:

• Content of course
• Resource page
• Time line
• Costing
• Weblog
• Wiki

I am working on having another couple of pages on this web page with my references and a slideshow which i intend to do in powerpoint and will put on Utube, and also upload it onto this blog as well.

This will give me my 3 internal links as well as my three external links for my course requirements.

I have got to the stage of this coure now that I am ready just to put everything together, to make the course complete.

My costing page is still is progress, as i want to talk to Terry about this.

My resources are as follows:

WhiteBoard / Data show

this is for students coming into CLC venues as a group session

CD’s

This is for students who are visual learners (dont learn from reading)

A4 Paper / Printer

My course will be constucted in “Word” and i will use “Snagit”

to capture my tools and paste into word document. Students will also get handouts to go with course. Students will be handed an Evaluation Sheet after the course as well.

Excel 2007 / Powerpoint software

As my course is Excel and I will put my course on powerpoint and put it on Utube, this is also for my visual learners.

Camstudio

I will use this software to capture visual and audio instructions for course construction.

I have put my steps on my webpage that I will take to construct my course.

http://jacquiehhayes.googlepages.com/home

Here is my web page.

My Web Page

I have just made my web page for the fourth part of the course, the implementation of the course.  I have found this real cool and have added extra pages and links to the Wiki as well as to my blog.

I used google pages to do this and found it a great way to make web pages.  this gave me another great idea of a course i could construct and teach at our Community Learning Centre Venues.

Isn’t technology Great!!

here is a link to my web page

Who are my Learners

• Students who have basic computer skills in Excel
• Existing Community Learning Centre Students
• Students who are sent to CLC by thier employers to know Excel
• Students who have purchased Microsoft Excel 2007 and dont know how to navigate around the software.
• Otago Polytechnic Staff, who will use Excel at their workstations once 2007 is installed on their computers.
• Groups or Organisations, who wish to use the CLC Venues to learn Excel for their clubs, or charities.

Learner Context:

 This course will be run in the Community Learning Centre under the Computing 4 Free Microsoft Office course, which already has been approved, and will be moderated by Emma Hogg,@Otago Polytechnic CLC Forth St Venue.

The time frame for this course will be a 20 hour course and will run in 1 and 1/2 sessions. 

This course could also be a blended course which will use both books, and could be taught via Community Learning Centres, on line for staff development/staff learners using blackboard.

The course will be made up in A4 booklet, with a Table of Contents, giving page reference to each learning outcome.  In the booklet will be written as well as visual intructions on how to:  I will use “Snagit” to use the visual instructions and “Word” for word processing the booklet.  There would also be handouts for students to take home.

I would also like to have the course on CD for visual learners who have trouble interpreting instructions written on paper.  I will most likely use “Camstudio”  (with audio ) for this. If it was to be put on Blackboard I would like to use slideshow and put it on utube.

For the Group students who wish to be taught in the CLC’s  I would use a data projector, and give students hand outs and have excercises already on the computers.

The Stakeholders are;

Otago Polytechnic, Otago Polytechnic Students

Learning Outcomes

On reflection to the outcomes that I put in my course I have taken into account

Being Specific:  I need to spell out exactly what students will be able to do after taking part in this course.

Measurable:  I need to have students learning to reflect and action their learning after their training, and be able use in their own situations.

Achievable:  I need to have the learning outcomes to be practical and realistic within the timespan and scope of the training course, and also the context to be at the correct level for the students compentency.

Timeline:   I need to specify which intended outcomes will be achievable, during the timespan of course, and which will need to be done in their own time.

Aim and Learning Outcomes

AIM:  To assist students to recognise and navigate the toolbar ribbon and Dialog boxes in Excel 2007

OUTCOME: At the completion of this course, students will be able to:

Open Basic Worksheets in Excel 2007

Edit Worksheets in Excel 2007

Perform Calculations in Excel 2007

Work with Multiple Worksheets in Excel 2007

Create and Modify Charts in Excel 2007

Set Page Display in Excel 2007

Recognise Printing Options in Excel 2007

Name and Rename Charts in Excel 2007

Freeze Panes in Excel 2007

Set Margins in Excel 2007

Add Header and Footers in Excel 2007

Add Page Breaks in Excel 2007