A MALAT Student Blog
Our project team Amber, Karen, Klaus and I prepared a toolkit for managing for changing in digital learning environments in Articulate Rise, a cloud-based course authoring e-learning environment. Its purpose is to provide explanatory text and resources—four lessons, ideas, resources, and tools to affect change.
Our toolkit.
When examining the continuum from renewal to new in the case of digital collaborative, I found that my case as a whole is more on the renewal side of the continuum. The use of digital platforms to collaborate is not new. Collaborating and teaming is not new. Collaborating digitally is not new. The method in which we will be collaborating is new.
My school, the location for my case study, is a Google school and is swamped with the use Google Suite. Google is fine; however, when examining other platforms and their performances, it seemed appropriate to test MURAL.
However, MURAL as a platform is new.
My colleagues are entrenched with user-friendly Google Suite, but this does not mean that all teachers are tech-savvy. The team that will be working with MURAL in the collaborative do not all have the same level of technology competencies. There will be a learning curve and comfort-level required to function in the collaborative. The learning curve for MURAL and the user expectations are ‘newer’ and will move down the continuum. The expectations of the familiarity and the consistent use of MURAL will be higher, for this collaborative work well and with purpose.