Hi everyone,
First of all, I would like to say that this is my blog page which I created for R541 course in last Spring semester. My general blog will come soon.
This is my fourth dossier review experience and I am still exciting as much as my first experience. Also, when I imagine myself as a presenter, - which is going to be next Fall - my excitement will start increasing. I hope everything will be great for all presenter.
It is very nice to see various people who have different interests. Actually, it feel great because all of those different interest show us how huge our field is. I just noticed that the students who are studying scaffolding are creating their own scaffolding. I could have been good if Suhkyung used "my scaffolds" instead of "Integration". This is just my recommendation and I don't know if it is really correct or not to use this kind of title in our presentation.
I really realized that I have to be prepared very well for my dossier #2 next year. I have to be sure that what I am interested in, why I am interested in, if I have multiple interests(I have), what are the relationships between them. Briefly, I have to have the ability to explain whatever I mentioned.
Friday, October 4, 2013
Friday, March 29, 2013
Presenting Project Process
Hi,
I would like to share how our team has been preparing for the project process before we present on next Monday. Our project plan was not started well because we changed our topic several weeks after we had started to our first topic. We could not access any first grade teachers to apply our thoughts about play-based learning in the context of transition from kindergarten to first grade. Than, we decided to change our project to public speaking and finally to academic public speaking. We are going to use some videos like lynda.com. For that, we are working on a website to integrate videos into it. I think we can complete our presentation on Sunday.
I would like to share how our team has been preparing for the project process before we present on next Monday. Our project plan was not started well because we changed our topic several weeks after we had started to our first topic. We could not access any first grade teachers to apply our thoughts about play-based learning in the context of transition from kindergarten to first grade. Than, we decided to change our project to public speaking and finally to academic public speaking. We are going to use some videos like lynda.com. For that, we are working on a website to integrate videos into it. I think we can complete our presentation on Sunday.
Friday, March 22, 2013
Collaboration vs. Cooperation
Hi,
This week, when I looked at the collaboration notes, I really became confused because I have still had difficulties to figure out what are the exact differences between collaboration and cooperation. They have their own dictionary meanings.
collaboration: when you work together with another person or group to achieve something, especially in science or art
cooperation: when you work with someone to achieve something that you both want.
For both there is group study but what is the difference. I am not sure but what I understood is that for collaboration every group members focus on each part of any project. On the other hand, for cooperation each group members focuses on a specific part of the project and then share his/her part with the other group members. Is this understanding correct? If so, for our project, we are sharing responsibilities. Therefore, I think we can we are working cooperatively. I hope my understanding is true. And I am wondering how we can work collaboratively.
Thanks,
Best,
Remzi
This week, when I looked at the collaboration notes, I really became confused because I have still had difficulties to figure out what are the exact differences between collaboration and cooperation. They have their own dictionary meanings.
collaboration: when you work together with another person or group to achieve something, especially in science or art
cooperation: when you work with someone to achieve something that you both want.
For both there is group study but what is the difference. I am not sure but what I understood is that for collaboration every group members focus on each part of any project. On the other hand, for cooperation each group members focuses on a specific part of the project and then share his/her part with the other group members. Is this understanding correct? If so, for our project, we are sharing responsibilities. Therefore, I think we can we are working cooperatively. I hope my understanding is true. And I am wondering how we can work collaboratively.
Thanks,
Best,
Remzi
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Job Aid Prototype
Hi,
I would like to share my job aid prototype. I really need your comment on the prototype. Stages have not been determined but I almost decided how to organize my job aid. Colors are also clear to me. I would like to use grey for the background, red and black for the texts. Audience of the job aid is desktop computer users. My plan is to explain to desktop computers' users how to format and partition a hard drive. I hope my job is going to be effective.
I would like to share my job aid prototype. I really need your comment on the prototype. Stages have not been determined but I almost decided how to organize my job aid. Colors are also clear to me. I would like to use grey for the background, red and black for the texts. Audience of the job aid is desktop computer users. My plan is to explain to desktop computers' users how to format and partition a hard drive. I hope my job is going to be effective.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Changing Project and Job Aid Topics
Hi,
Our team was working on the first grade teacher's uses of play-based method to facilitate students' transaction from kindergarten to first grade. However, we did not access enough teachers to interview. Therefore, with the recommendation of Dr. Glazewski, we have decided to focus on public speaking.
Job Aid Topic
Before the class on Monday, I has three topic on my job aids. First of them was "how to withdraw from an bank ATM?" Dr. Glazewski told me that this topic is not appropriate because everyone know how to withdraw. The second one was "how to effectively use body language during public speaking?" This topic is so broad. There are many kinds of body language to use within public speaking so I am not going to use this topic, either. The last one was "how to format a harddrive?" Dr. Glazewski more like this topic and she recommended me to enhance the topic with some additional points. Regarding her recommendation, I will also add "how to create partitions" to my topic. I hope I will achieve a good job with my job aids.
Thanks,
Best,
Remzi
Our team was working on the first grade teacher's uses of play-based method to facilitate students' transaction from kindergarten to first grade. However, we did not access enough teachers to interview. Therefore, with the recommendation of Dr. Glazewski, we have decided to focus on public speaking.
Job Aid Topic
Before the class on Monday, I has three topic on my job aids. First of them was "how to withdraw from an bank ATM?" Dr. Glazewski told me that this topic is not appropriate because everyone know how to withdraw. The second one was "how to effectively use body language during public speaking?" This topic is so broad. There are many kinds of body language to use within public speaking so I am not going to use this topic, either. The last one was "how to format a harddrive?" Dr. Glazewski more like this topic and she recommended me to enhance the topic with some additional points. Regarding her recommendation, I will also add "how to create partitions" to my topic. I hope I will achieve a good job with my job aids.
Thanks,
Best,
Remzi
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Introduction to Web Design
Hi,
This week I wanted to start learning web design from lynda.com. Actually, when I was an undergraduate student, I was good at web design. I voluntarily created a professional website with two of my friends. These days, this website, http://www.aked.org.tr, is going to be changed, but we designed the first form of that website. While we were creating the website, we used PHP. I can say that I am still good at web design but I wanted to start from a basic form of web design program, HTML. I believe that it will be very helpful for me to make a framework any of my websites in the future. HTML videos helped me to explore a new software which I can edit, test , and compile my website. This software is "KOMODO EDIT 7." It is free and very useful. Actually, Dreamweaver is also helpful for this goal but Komodo edit can be another good choice.
Thanks,
Remzi
This week I wanted to start learning web design from lynda.com. Actually, when I was an undergraduate student, I was good at web design. I voluntarily created a professional website with two of my friends. These days, this website, http://www.aked.org.tr, is going to be changed, but we designed the first form of that website. While we were creating the website, we used PHP. I can say that I am still good at web design but I wanted to start from a basic form of web design program, HTML. I believe that it will be very helpful for me to make a framework any of my websites in the future. HTML videos helped me to explore a new software which I can edit, test , and compile my website. This software is "KOMODO EDIT 7." It is free and very useful. Actually, Dreamweaver is also helpful for this goal but Komodo edit can be another good choice.
Thanks,
Remzi
Friday, February 15, 2013
Project Proposal
Hi,
This week, our comedy group team has concentrated on preparing project proposal based on Dr. Glazewzski's recommendation from the meeting we had with her on Monday. After Monday, we had several meetings to discuss the proposal. We are first going to describe the planned intervention. We are going to define our purpose and our project objectives. Our purpose is to help first grade teachers to create and use play-based activities. Our context will include Web Based Learning Platform, instructional videos, written instructions, and opportunities for teachers to report their experiences implementing the activities. We are going to create short videos (1-5 minutes) based on Winn's principles of message design. Website content will not include a lot of text and still images.
The objective of such is to increase active student engagement. We can measure student engagement by observing students' mental attention to a learning subject or by a physical activity.The physical activity makes easier to observe and measure the levels of engagement immediately. Students in Indiana public school have difficulties for transition from kindergarten to third grade. This transition can be especially difficult for students more used to learning through play-based activities. Therefore, we hope to help and encourage teachers for these reasons.
Thanks,
Remzi
This week, our comedy group team has concentrated on preparing project proposal based on Dr. Glazewzski's recommendation from the meeting we had with her on Monday. After Monday, we had several meetings to discuss the proposal. We are first going to describe the planned intervention. We are going to define our purpose and our project objectives. Our purpose is to help first grade teachers to create and use play-based activities. Our context will include Web Based Learning Platform, instructional videos, written instructions, and opportunities for teachers to report their experiences implementing the activities. We are going to create short videos (1-5 minutes) based on Winn's principles of message design. Website content will not include a lot of text and still images.
The objective of such is to increase active student engagement. We can measure student engagement by observing students' mental attention to a learning subject or by a physical activity.The physical activity makes easier to observe and measure the levels of engagement immediately. Students in Indiana public school have difficulties for transition from kindergarten to third grade. This transition can be especially difficult for students more used to learning through play-based activities. Therefore, we hope to help and encourage teachers for these reasons.
Thanks,
Remzi
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)