LMS Project
Instructional Design in Online Learning
Week 1:
Introduction:
In third grade, students will engage in activities that will build upon their prior knowledge and skills to strengthen their reading, writing, and oral language skills. Students should read and write daily. This LMS Project will provide research and information to help create and develop a Language Arts online learning course for 3rd grade students. This course will have five weeks' worth of information where students will be given the opportunity to participate fully in an online capacity. Students will understand the function of and use the conventions of academic language when speaking and writing. Students will create a COVA project to display their overall learnings from the course.
Learning Goals & Desired Results:
- Learners will use and understand the function of the various parts of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking.
- Learners will have the opportunity to build and create a cohesive project of their choice according to the COVA approach to display their understanding of each part of speech.
- Learners will create an e-portfolio to display their COVA projects and learnings over the 5-week course.
- Learners will develop and build communication skills by having the opportunity to collaborate with peers collectively.
- Learners will be able to successfully identify various parts of speech and determine the correct use in academic language when speaking and writing while also developing technical skills to help with creativity and organization.
Targeted Audience: Third grade students at Eustace Intermediate. Students are 1:1 with Chromebooks. Students cannot take computers home with them unless noted otherwise due to quarantine or strictly attending school remotely. So, this course will be offered during the summer for any students who might be interested in it and have access to complete the course.
Other Information: Below I have shared questions for formulating significant learning goal, the overall course outline plan, and Fink's 3 Column Table to demonstrate how I aligned learning goals, outcomes, assessments and activities.
Google Classroom:
Week 2:
Below I have share a detailed outline of the first 50% of my course. This is the plan for the 1st three weeks of the five week course. All other information can be found on my Google Classroom!
*Info for GC listed above!*
Week 3:
Below I have share a detailed outline of the final 50% of my course. This is the plan for the last two weeks of the five week course. All other information can be found on my Google Classroom!
*Info for GC listed above!*
Week 4:
Below I have shared some information about some classes on my campus that could be redesigned to be online courses. Also, all of the course information for the last few weeks of my course I have designed has been put into my LMS. If you would like to check out the current course I have created, all of the information can be found in my Google Classroom!
*Info for GC listed above!*
Other course ideas:
The district I work for is a Title I district. The majority of our students are from low-income based single-family homes. Working at the elementary level, grades 3 - 5, and collaborating with other teachers, transitioning curriculum into online courses this year due to the pandemic has been notably challenging but rewarding. We have had many trials and errors but have had the opportunity to grow exponentially throughout the overall process.
I believe two courses that could be redesigned into online courses that would greatly benefit the campus I work on is Art and Writing. There is an excess of public educational resources to support each course. I feel that an online-based art class could include various ways for students to create and learn about the fundamentals of art. The course could have assignments that provide a more hands-on approach necessary for younger students. Improving and offering an online-based art class would offer students an outlet where they have the opportunity to have a form of self-expression. I believe the key here is parental support at home and then both support for parents and students from the teacher.
Writing would benefit from being redesigned into an online course because it is a tested subject area that many students on campus tend to want to resist. On my campus, we recently introduced a writing curriculum in 3rd grade to help students become better writers and understand the fundamentals of writing by the time they got to 4th grade. This curriculum was solely based on giving students more background knowledge they could access and utilize later on. Getting students to write about anything, in general, has always been a challenging task, and we wanted to create a way to ease students into what they tend to see as an overwhelming writing process. Redesigning the course into a digital format, I think, would draw in the audience more. I think the digital course would be more appealing than completing the tasks or assignments with the more authentic way of using pencil and paper. Allowing students to write in a digital format would help build a greater complexity of skills that they could utilize far beyond the classroom walls that they could carry with them forever.
Week 5:
Below I have shared my reflection on the analysis of online learning and thoughts on online course instructional design.
I have also shared my OSCQR Score Card where I reflected on the course I have built the last few weeks and on ways I can improve for the future. Suny Online developed an online course design rubric and process that addresses the instructional design and accessibility of an online course. The aim of the OSCQR SUNY Online Course Quality Review Rubric and Process is to support continuous improvements to the quality and accessibility of online courses.
Below is list of successful online programs that were recommend in discussion by some my classmates these last few weeks. These resources will be added to my EdShelf which you can find under resources for more information!
- IXL
- EdPuzzle
- EPIC
- Kahoot
- SeeSaw
- NearPod
- PearDeck
- Padlet
- FlipGrid
- Classkick
