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Designing Digitally Deanna E. Mayers Curriculum Coordinator blendedschools.net

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Designing Digitally

Deanna E. MayersCurriculum Coordinatorblendedschools.net

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Agenda

• Developer Selection/Training• Design Methodology• Course Requirements• Tools for Developing• Courses• Learning Objects

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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

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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

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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

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Respondus

• Creating assessments from word documents

• Saving raw documents for other uses or to be redeveloped for additional learning management systems

• Files could

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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

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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

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Study Mate

• Algebra 1 A

• Starting first with a word document

• Educational Gaming• Teachers quickly creating games

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NASA

• Partnership with blendedschools.net

• Scientists working with developers

• Learning Objects within our Content Management System

• Video in the BSN tube

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Whole Child

• Healthy• Safe • Engaged• Supported• Challenged• Draft BSN resources

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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

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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