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Designing Digitally
Deanna E. MayersCurriculum Coordinatorblendedschools.net
Agenda
• Developer Selection/Training• Design Methodology• Course Requirements• Tools for Developing• Courses• Learning Objects
Developer Selection and
Training Process• Candidates formally applied and participated in two interviews
• Candidates offered a contract to develop
• Required attendance at a Developers Conference– Instructional Design– Technology Tools– Curriculum Design
• Weekly Developer Meetings
Understanding by Design
• Backward Design Model– Identify the Essential Content
• Enduring Understandings• Essential Questions
– Designing Assessments– Creating the Instructional Units
• Course Flexibility– Semester– Year Long– Learning Object based
Assessments
• Performances and Products that demonstrate understandings
• Typically a real-world goal, set within realistic context of challenges and possibilities.
• GRASPS (Goal, Role, Audience, Situation, Performance, Standards)
• Blackboard Rubric Initiative
• Traditional Assessments, recall and skill items
Respondus
• Creating assessments from word documents
• Saving raw documents for other uses or to be redeveloped for additional learning management systems
• Files could
Learning Activities
• Should be based on your Curriculum Framework– Essential Questions – Enduring Understandings– Key Skills
• Should be aligned with your assessments– Teach what you want to assess.
• Based on the WHERETO Model– Where, Hook, Engage, Revise, Evaluate, Transfer, Ordering
Wimba Create
Civics and Government
• Start with a Word Document• Click on a button in word to add:– Flashcards– Quiz– Weblinks
• Package it to be used in a Blackboard Course
Study Mate
• Algebra 1 A
• Starting first with a word document
• Educational Gaming• Teachers quickly creating games
NASA
• Partnership with blendedschools.net
• Scientists working with developers
• Learning Objects within our Content Management System
• Video in the BSN tube
Whole Child
• Healthy• Safe • Engaged• Supported• Challenged• Draft BSN resources
Differentiation
• Math 2 A• At the Lesson Level• At least to 50% lessons of new courses have suggestions and/or resources for differentiation
• Unit Projects - offer differentiation suggestions
Service Learning
• AP Literature
Future Development• Advisory Committee• All courses will be developed with a 4-year shelf life in mind
• Curriculum Cycle– 2008-2009 High School Core– 2009-2010 Intermediate Core and high school electives
– 2010-2011 Elementary Core and High School Electives
– New Course development
• Developing a structured process for ensuing content integrity of course links and other resources in the courses