My Instructional Website is finished and submitted. I see many similarities between the instructional website and the webquest. They have an introduction page, they have objectives, tasks, resource links and a means of guiding or walking the student through the project. The webquest had sections for instructing other teachers. I suppose that could be included in an instructional website, optionally.
My instructional website is one section/unit/project within my second year horticulture landscape design II course in higher education. I created it as though the course textbook did not include a section on designing rain gardens. I will include it in my CMS next. The webquest will be another section/unit/project in my CMS. It is on the topic of designing a garden space with willow structures. The podcast I created will be the introduction to another section on extending the growing season with high, medium, and low tunnel structures. The overall theme to my landscape design course is that good landscape design can be creative and cost effective to include all garden users. It can serve many purposes besides aesthetics and there are many niche markets to consider for the landscape designer. This is a course I would be excited to teach.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Monday, July 2, 2012
Hot Potatoes
I just finished creating a crossword puzzle and a short quiz for my instructional website. It took me hours to learn and it was not easy, but I have to say it was a lot of fun! Hot Potatoes is definitely going into my toolkit for future use.
I like twitter. I like when I go over the 140 character limit and it tells me I need to be more creative. For some reason I don't mind being pushed by a computer, like I mind being pushed by humans. So much of what I follow on twitter, though, is redundant. Three organizations will repeat the same information. Some organizations tweet hourly or every so many minutes with nothing of value, for days on end. But it sure has been helpful with providing information on the Ohio storm cleanup efforts. So I will take the bad with the good and continue to follow twitter. I learned a new word from twitter, this week, derecho. And saw an image showing exactly what it is. I am a weather channel junkie, but never heard them use that word before. Television and the internet has made science come alive for me. It was one of my worst subjects in elementary and high school, as there were never enough good visuals to help me understand the text.
I like blogging, too. It gives me time to reflect and gather my thoughts without pressure. And of course I get to chose the subject matter. I've read other bloggers posts this week that have included photos of their property damage and experiences with the storms that they have encountered. So different than having someone tell me on the phone what they experienced. Blogging makes it more real. It's also an unobtrusive way to stay current while I'm immersed in my coursework.
It's finally hitting me. One more week and I will have completed the masters program. It's so hard to believe.
I like twitter. I like when I go over the 140 character limit and it tells me I need to be more creative. For some reason I don't mind being pushed by a computer, like I mind being pushed by humans. So much of what I follow on twitter, though, is redundant. Three organizations will repeat the same information. Some organizations tweet hourly or every so many minutes with nothing of value, for days on end. But it sure has been helpful with providing information on the Ohio storm cleanup efforts. So I will take the bad with the good and continue to follow twitter. I learned a new word from twitter, this week, derecho. And saw an image showing exactly what it is. I am a weather channel junkie, but never heard them use that word before. Television and the internet has made science come alive for me. It was one of my worst subjects in elementary and high school, as there were never enough good visuals to help me understand the text.
I like blogging, too. It gives me time to reflect and gather my thoughts without pressure. And of course I get to chose the subject matter. I've read other bloggers posts this week that have included photos of their property damage and experiences with the storms that they have encountered. So different than having someone tell me on the phone what they experienced. Blogging makes it more real. It's also an unobtrusive way to stay current while I'm immersed in my coursework.
It's finally hitting me. One more week and I will have completed the masters program. It's so hard to believe.
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