LRNT526 Research & Activities Log

DATE

ACTIVITY

Team: May Bahador, Sean Doyle, Jason Keddie, Alfonso MacGregor & Klaus Rimke

Modality:  On line learning  Khan Academy  (*)

Instance:  Khan Academy  Intro to HTML & Intro to CSS  (*)

Link: www.khanacademy.org

Team’s name: “Khan Artists”

Presentation date: Sunday, May 13, changed to May 19, 2018

Begin participation in your team’s chosen modality and instance

COMMENT:  I was a late-arrival to the team, and they all welcomed me nicely.  I had no problem adopting the modality that was already chosen.

(*)  These concepts were clarified with the instructor one month later, a week prior to our team’s presentation date.

COMMENT:  Through the MALAT programme, Google Docs has proven to be of high value to collaborate simultaneously as well as asynchronously.

COMMENT:  The modality of Khan Academy was clearly understood by all the team members.  The instance was not clear as such although we agreed to take a couple of courses to familiarize ourselves with Khan Academy.  We did not think the agreement as the instance until the instructor told us that was it.

COMMENT:  The team collaborated to put together the summary, and it was posted in Klaus Rimke’s blog.  Khan Artists received useful feedback from the instructor which was incorporated in subsequent pieces of work.

COMMENT:  When I posted this work I was still considering the modality and the instance wrongly.  I was also regarding Khan Academy material an OER, which later was rectified to refer to it as Online Educational Video.

COMMENT:  The outline mentioned the opportunity that having construction sites in several campuses of a school district represented for applying the students’ learning.  Some clarification was done via e-mail with the instructor, and he approved the idea of localisation as a good proposal to develop.

COMMENT:  One, if not the most, important contribution the DEE GEEs did to the class was being the first team to present.  Their experience shed some light on the “mystery” of what the instructor was expecting from the class.

COMMENT:  The MOOCs immersion we had with the MOOCtastic team was extraordinary.  They did an excellent job researching and reporting the outstanding features of the MOOCs.

COMMENT:  The TEDdy BEARS presentation revealed interesting aspects regarding not only the cost, or absence of it, of some educational resources but also the “certify-ability” of them.

COMMENT:  This team’s session included a nice dose of sense of humour which made the presentation extremely enjoyable, without diminishing the interesting information they presented.  The Awesome Sauce team made a clever use of their name playing with words and ideas to convey their content.

COMMENT:  Being the last team to present represented also a challenge since the audience was already “trained” on what to expect.  There was enough difference in our modality and content in relation to the other presentations that the audience welcomed the novelties with interesting questions and positive feedback.