Lesley Skousen, PhD
lesleyskousen.com
[email protected]
 Go to lesleyskousen.com
 Hover over “E-Learning” page and click on “Bryn Mawr
Presentation”
 Provides you with links for this Workshop
Polling Data
 Elegant Organization: Instructor-scaffolding,
student direction
 Dynamic Interaction: Each thread takes a
potentially unique direction
 Layered Communication: Reply to specific people,
regardless of timing
 Multiple dynamic discussions on single topics
 Introduces wider range of concepts
 Allows for greater interaction
 Personalizes education and Increases accountability
 Gives time for shy, quiet, or deep-thinking students to
participate
 Facilitates better comprehension for ELLs
**ELL = English Language Learner
① Content Delivery
② Formative Assessment
③ Interactive Activity
④ Discussion Forum
⑤ Summative Assessment
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① Content Delivery
(Formative Assessment Optional)
① Interactive Activity
(Discussion Forum Optional)
② Summative Assessment
① Content Delivery
② Formative Assessment
③ Interactive Activity
④ Discussion Forum
⑤ Summative Assessment
Forums for the classroom!
 Sample 1: Single question; 15 conversations
 Sample 2: Seek-and-Share Research
 Sample 3: Peer Review Feedback
 Sample 4: Debate
 Works best with “how” or “why” questions
 Includes sharing personal reactions, individual
definitions or interpretations
 Two distinct questions:
 Primary Prompt and Secondary Response
 Includes guidelines for primary and secondary answers
 Each student’s thread becomes its own class discussion
What were the causes of WW2?
Research at least two for forum sharing:
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Economic Depression
Treaties
Global Influence
Technology
Empires
Social Status
Civil War
Political Ideology
Works great with current events or
tackling large content areas as a group
 Essays and Outlines
 PowerPoint Slides
 Prezi
 Piktochart
 Storyboard or films
 Mad-Learn Applications
 Students read and review each other, offering advice
for revision as they absorb content
 Research / Content / Reaction Post
 Find two classmates who disagree with you and post a
response to their arguments
 Find two classmates who agree with you and play
devil’s advocate
 Result: What begins as an assumption of
understanding becomes incredibly complex and
deconstructed
Write a paragraph describing a recent traditional
lesson (lecture / discussion / activity / project) 15
Minutes
2. Consider one way you could widen your audience
through blended learning, especially considering
your quiet, deep-thinking, or foreign language
students
3. Post your description and proposal to the
freeforums.net link
4. After posting, begin to read other proposals and
provide feedback to their ideas
1.
Olla Najah Al-Shalchi, “The Effectiveness and Development of Online
Discussions.” Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
http://jolt.merlot.org/vol5no1/al-shalchi_0309.htm (Accessed on 15 March
2015)
AR Roper, “How Students Develop Online Learning Skills” Educause Quarterly, 1
(2007), pp. 62-64
J Du, K Zhang, A Olinsock, and J Adams. Graduate Students’ Perspectives on
the Meaningful Nature of Online Discussions” Journal of Interactive Learning
Research Vol 19, No 1 (2008), pp. 21-36
Michael Prince, “Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research.” J. Engr
Education, Vol 93 No 3 (2004), pp. 223-231
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Papers/Prince_AL.
pdf (Accessed 15 March 2015)
Let’s Collaborate!!
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