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.