E- Weekend 20th and 21st November

New York City

    E-weekend , no face to face meeting this session, instead students will work with their groups via Skype, Wiki, or meet at a designated location.  Most of the class met on skype. During the e-weekend session groups will post their webquests for others to critique and perform the tasks and processes set forth in the webquest, groups will also complete a quiz that was created using Proprofs and embedded in the webquest to show if each individual understood the lesson thought. And post reviews on each webquest in wiki.


   Dr Ackerman posted the directions of reviewing each groups webquest via Skype, the directions are as follows:
"Examine each webquest (see wiki discussion for links)
-Complete each wq QUIZ by using a name we recognize (if you want credit)
-For each wq review, post the following in review wiki discussions designated for each review and in the actual wq if you are logged into zunal (optional).
-Your recognizable name (often not wiki user name)
-Name of webquest you are reviewing
-2 unique observations about wq --refer to this wq rubric http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquestrubric.html
-2 observations about the quiz (refer to our guidelines)
-2 recommendations for future revision/enhancement of this wq
As professionals, please state your reviews in a unique manner so they don’t appear as if you just made copies without careful consideration. The reviews should demonstrate that you examined the individual webquests.
Lots of creative approaches and application of 463 in terms of assessment and evaluation as well as this formative evaluation technique (review process). Congrats – AA"

   The first webquest i did was "How to hunt for Mullets",  out of the 4 question i got one wrong the last question, probably because i didn't pay close attention to the other names for a mullet.I enjoyed reading Kim's mediation webquest, took away some breathing techniques.Kent's group did a PBJ webquest  yummy, yummy, yummy i got PBJ in my tummy. Josh, Sharon and Dennis - How to make cup cake cakes very informative, i will try making cupcakes now i see how easy it is. Darrius, Gerald and Carlos- USA job Applications webquest great for anyone wanting to apply to federal jobs and not sure how to go through the process, which can be tedious at times, i should know i have had to use USAJOBS for my current line of employment and i had help completing the entire application process.

    On Sunday 21st, group worked again via skype, I reviewed the last webquest April, Nephtali and Christine- How to pair wine with food. Very informative and well done webquest the pictures in the webquest were very rich and magnificent made you want to eat.Overall each Webquest created was interesting, the topics were fun, some were humorous, others very informative, some made you hungry.In the end they were all great.The quizzes were very easy to follow, also having the entire class on via Skype worked well to. 

Week Two of WED 463

Dominican Republic

    Saturday class started with " something we learned since last session."   Using the cushball everyone shared their experiences as to what he or she learned, this was followed by the correct way to post a file and its format. The class also had a discussion of more web base learning programs that can be used versus having face to face classroom discussions. Two of the websites  mentioned were zorap and tokbox.
    The five levels of evaluation was then taught by Dr Ackerman and the  class went over the TV survey  that was done as a virtual exercise on the Sunday of the October class meeting.  We discuss the purpose of the survey, why is a survey done and how is the data collected used. The class also discussed the screen orientation of how an online survey should look, for example item 7 of 20  so the person knows  how long again until the survey ends, the section name,the header, footer,a back, forward,quit, help,save and finish later button, making sure the survey is grammatically correct, easy to navigate through and the point of contact for the survey.The class also discuss the difference between normal reference and criterion reference and which was the  better of the two.
   On wikispace there was a post by professor Ackerman for the November meeting concerning writing guidelines,  we discussed some of these guidelines, for example avoid always and never and some other points, we also touched on primacy, regency and effect and how people remember by  chunking or using mnemonics to help with recalling information. This was followed by a group exercise , where we used the guidelines we learned to critique a questionnaire. Another exercise followed where the groups once again had to create one multiple choice  item that measured something from 463. This had to include directions, the group members and the correct answer to the question, this exercise was then critiqued by Dr. Ackerman. After this exercise we had and "AH HA" moment from what was learned in the multiple choice exercise, some students stated " make sure directions are clear, KISS,- keep it simple stupid, know if what you taught is what the student understands and always go back and look at the instrument that provided the data." The purpose of this exercise was to help the students understand how to complete their group projects that  they were going to create using zunal and proprofs. (a quiz maker.) The guidelnes for creating  our group project  were:

1.Create a 20 minute webquest using Zunal,
2. Zunal does not have a free evaluation offer so to work around this and evaluation component would be created  you can use ProProfs  which is a free quiz maker.
3. Link to a quiz maker of your choice consisting of at least 4 questions to your Zunal webquest
4.Post the URL for you webquest in wiki discussion
5. Complete other webquest from classmates group.

 Sunday class, some students took the option to work virtually, while other went to class. The groups that  were in class, had the aided help of Dr. Ackerman, to further fine tune any misunderstandings pertaining to the project. The groups were then left to work.