PILOT COHORT 5 Spring 2011
Pam Costa
Psychology
John Davis
Transitional
Studies
Sedia Dennis
Transitional
Studies
ENG 95
Scott Earle
Written
Communications
ENG 103 HOA
#3701
Mary Fox
Written
Communications
Goal is to use both representational and engagement
strategies to provide better organization of online course
materials. (1) Will use weekly folders which provide a
week’s worth of work only. Folder with assignments
opens and closes for that week only (resources continue).
(2) Will post an engaging schedule/outline for the week
that is sent by e-mail through Angel and campus e-mail.
(3) All online materials are color coded. (4) Will set up
an agent present in Angel to show her 3 different grade
level score reports on papers done by all students. Writes
4 different personalized e-mails which let students know
their assignments were received on time and gives basic
feedback to each group. Keeps contact with online
students frequent to promote engagement and
accountability.
Goal is to provide more representational strategies so
students benefit from more visual input and build use of
technology skills. Will use color coding of materials as he
teaches three different subjects to the same students.
Will use e-mail to communicate expectations to students
which he expects them to check. Also will send out more
resources electronically.
Goal is to use engagement strategies to provide structure
and accountability specifically related to writing thematic
essays. Each week (1) over the weekend students will
read the materials related to the theme; (2) write in
notebook; (3) receive weekly feedback/grade on
notebook; (4) do grammar practices from text and write
group summaries; and (5) use lecture and discussion.
Goal is to use representational strategies to provide more
visual input. Will use PowerPoint to enhance lectures
which feature Google images. These PowerPoint’s will be
available to students after class for review. Will also
experiment with using different colors to match the period
he is focusing on in Humanities.
Goal is engagement and representation in her theme
based ENG 101 class. Will use Angel to post schedules,
assignments, and grades. This is a lead up to a larger
goal of getting her 101 class to a hybrid by fall 2011. Will
use weekly memos to respond to online 1 Minute
Questions sent to students about what they are learning,
what is confusing, and what they need.
PILOT COHORT 5 Spring 2011
Sheri Gietzen
Written
Communications
Diana Marre
Transitional
Studies
ENG 85
Christy Perotti
Fresh Start
FRESH 100
Rosalie
Robinson
Transitional
Studies - AESL
Goal is to promote engagement and accountability in her
theme based ENG 101 class. Will require students to: (1)
Prep for each class by writing a one page journal
assignment on the reading due every class day using
journal template as a prompt. (2) Participate in class
group activity using 4-5 students who discuss the reading
with guided questions. This work is graded and preps
them to cite their quotes. (3) Projects – each group
creates one of the 7 weekly quizzes on the reading
together; students work together on peer reviews of
essays and outlines; groups engage in collaborative
source sharing on research essays. Teacher will model
the first 2.
Goal is to use an engagement strategy of writing a
published class book together which everyone contributes
to through writing personal narratives or poems or art
work. This is a theme based project centering on Egypt ancient or modern. Will start the process in the first week
through journal entries. All work is peer reviewed and
printed in the TCC Print Shop.
Goal is engagement of students in a HOL environment.
Will use (1) Color coding – by categories of in-class,
week-end, and handouts to save for test. Will develop (2)
Grade Tracking Sheet on paper and add posting grades
with Angel or Grade A. Will also write up assignment
sheets which describe the group projects which include
the due dates and points. (3) Will ask students to submit
work by e-mail or in class. (4) Will use more active
assignments such as using cell phones to do polls in class.
(5) Will post daily schedule.
Goal is to enable students to use expression strategies in
writing related to their learning style to bring out their
best writing. This is also an engagement strategy as
students feel their needs are being met. All students will
take a Learning Styles Inventory. They will also take an
Environmental Preferences survey. Using the combined
information from these surveys, Rosalie will develop
activities related to learning styles represented in class
and model how each learning preference would best
approach each class activity which ends in a choice to be
made by the student.
PILOT COHORT 5 Spring 2011
Amber Smith
Math 107
Math 148 (2)
Goal is to provide more access to teaching materials
through electronic resources. Interested in using a web
page or a blog so that she could assign 2 students to take
notes each day and post them. This would count for a
homework grade. Will continue using Grade A for grades.
Will discuss this further with Andy and Jo.