I've officially launched the project this afternoon by posting the content of the project and the instructional video on the course's D2L site. I find that I have a love/hate relationship with Screen Cast-O-Matic: I love being able to actually present content to my students and walk them through new content and procedures. I HATE listening to myself. My voice grates my nerves.
In theory, this was a fairly straightforward conversion of the portfolio project. My students are (to me) surprisingly technology resistant, so it will be interesting to see how they adapt to the challenge of building their wiki sites.
Technically, they have until December 12th to turn in their projects. I know this deadline conflicts with the course end, but I am confident that at least some of the groups will have sufficient content developed/uploaded in their wiki that I will be able to do the evaluation component of this project.
Fingers crossed!
Awesome start so far! I know how you feel about your voice getting on your nerves because I do a lot of video tutorials. I find it very interesting that the students are technology resistant. Any idea why that is?
ReplyDeleteI think it's the unknown. For all of their 'familiarity' with technology, i have a large body of students that only likes to work with technology that they know. Branching out into new and different programs really pushes people's buttons!
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