Here is my graphic organizer.  If you would like to see the interactive graph working please visit the class cafe.

Engaging Learners with New Strategies and Tools

Once again I am dealing with something I have no clue how to make work.  I have created this wonderful interactive graphic organizer but I can not post it on my blog.  Please go to the class cafe and check out my graphic organizer.  Please help me if you know how to attach pdf files to blogs.

Resource for graphic organizer

Prois, J. (2011, March 27). Social networking in schools: Educators debate the merits of technology in classrooms The Internet Newspaper, Retrieved from       http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/27/social-networking-schools_n_840911.html

Assessing Collaborative Efforts

Participation in a collaborative learning community should be assessed in different models.  According to Siemens students should assess their peers, self-assess, educators should assess student contributions and educators should assess based on metrics.   Assessment should be fair and understood.  Rubrics would be the best way for an educator to assess students in this learning environment.  I believe the fairest way to assess students is to create a rubric that is very specific. 
 
When it comes to students who do not want to participate in the learning community it effects everyone.  I have worked in groups where there are a few people that do not actively participate.  It is a major headache.  The best way to deal with this problem is to try and communicate with the group member.  If this does not work then the instructor needs to be informed.  The instructor is a facilitator and should be made aware of group members that do not participate. 
 
 
Laureate Education, Inc. (2008). Learning Communities. Principles of Distance Education. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Video Presentation: Post Storyboard on Blog

I have images that I have set up for this project and they will go in the power point presentation.  However, I am having trouble uploading the photos to my blog.  If anyone know how to do this please respond and let me know what I am doing wrong.


Title: What is Plagiarism and how to deal with it in distance education




By Sadie Rodgers









What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism- using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author’s work as your own,

 

Definition taken from dictionary.com

Slide Title: Examples of plagiarism

• Copying and pasting online sources, text, or any information that is not your original work

• Using your work previously submitted and not giving proper credit

• Using audio, video or photographs without citations (acknowledgement)

• Using a family/friends work and taking credit for it as if it were your own

• Quoting without using quotation marks

• Getting written work off the internet and trying to pass it off as your own

Slide Title: Preventing Plagiarism

• Do not copy and paste but use your own words for an assignment

• Always cite your sources and give credit where it is due

• use quotation marks and in-text citations

• When taking notes write down the citation information for you to use later

• Do not use anyone else’s work and claim it as your own



Detection and remediation





Resources

• https://www.google.com/search?q=Plagarism&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7ADFA_enUS483&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=qEn6T9b6GIPc9ASy9IDuBg&biw=1280&bih=596&sei=XEr6T5-eKoW88ATtlvXmBg (Images were taken from this site.)

Title: What is Plagiarism and how to deal with it in distance education




By Sadie Rodgers









What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism- using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author’s work as your own,

 

Definition taken from dictionary.com

Slide Title: Examples of plagiarism

• Copying and pasting online sources, text, or any information that is not your original work

• Using your work previously submitted and not giving proper credit

• Using audio, video or photographs without citations (acknowledgement)

• Using a family/friends work and taking credit for it as if it were your own

• Quoting without using quotation marks

• Getting written work off the internet and trying to pass it off as your own

Slide Title: Preventing Plagiarism

• Do not copy and paste but use your own words for an assignment

• Always cite your sources and give credit where it is due

• use quotation marks and in-text citations

• When taking notes write down the citation information for you to use later

• Do not use anyone else’s work and claim it as your own



Detection and remediation





Resources

• https://www.google.com/search?q=Plagarism&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7ADFA_enUS483&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=qEn6T9b6GIPc9ASy9IDuBg&biw=1280&bih=596&sei=XEr6T5-eKoW88ATtlvXmBg (Images were taken from this site.)

Citation list for this weeks blog:

Laureate Education, Inc. (Producer). (2008). The future of distance education featuring George Siemens. United States: Walden University.

I agree with Siemens view on distance education. Distance education provides many possibilities that are different from face to face traditional classrooms. The elements of global diversity and collaboration have evolved dramatically. Students can collaborate with students across the globe and this also adds an element of diversity to the educational experience. Siemens said that students have to have a, “growing comfort with online discourse” for distance education to be successful.


There are many tools that have made it possible to collaborate and achieve global diversity. For example students can Skype with students around the world. English students that take Spanish can have face to face conversations with native English speakers and vice verses. Authors can talk to students from the comfort of their home or a location of their choosing. The possibilities are endless when it comes to the internet/world wide web.