Digital Pedagogy Institute
August 20, 2015
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 Learning Management System (LMS)
 Guiding Principles
 Course Development Checklist
 Methodology
 Creating Stories Online – Examples from GBC ESL
 Planning
 A Checklist for Success
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Blackboard
• Free:
https://www.coursesites.com/webapps/Bb-sites-course-creation-BBLEARN/pages/getstarted.html
• Institutional: https://bb-gbc.blackboard.com/
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 Learning Management System (Foundation)
 Outcome-Based Learning
 Learning by Doing – Experience and Skills
 Learning by Solving Problems
 Approach Proceeds the Tactic/Tool
 Support Institutional Goals
 Universal Design Learning Standards
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 Consistent: “Quiet Design”
 Explicit: Guide the users, use intuitive “signifiers”
 Supportive: give examples, checklists, sense of community
 Minimal Efforts: provide inputs
 Learning-Conducive Space: supportive instructional strategies
 Accessible: all students can access resources
 Flexible: peer-to-peer help, group work
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 Look at the actual situation; identify a need
 Look for solutions
 Decide on a path
 Evaluate the results
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Look at the actual situation; identify a need
 Few opportunities to reinforce knowledge and practice skills
 Students do not participate much in class
 Students have different learning styles
 Not possible to cover all the content in class
 Need for increased accessibility
Look for solutions
 Brainstorm
 Look what others are doing
Decide on a path
 Outcomes
 Storyline
 Component-teacher-student-technology
Evaluate the results
 Achievement
 Likes and dislikes
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Situation
• Increase accessibility
• Increase opportunities to reinforce knowledge
and practice skills
Solution
• Brainstorm with teacher
• ESL Outcomes: listening, speaking, reading,
writing
• Create storylines
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Beginning
Characters
Students as
journalists
Plot / Mini Outcomes
Choosing a
neighbourhood
Choose a partner
& decide on a hood
Research
the hood
Description
History
Identify strengths &
areas for improvement
Solutions / Tasks
Final product
Issues
Interview
a resident
Solutions
Contact a
councillor
Publish
article
Component of
the story
Choose an area
Inputs/tools
Outputs
20 neigbourhoods
Describe the
place
Components of the
introduction
Facilities
Information to look
for
Guidelines: Planning
interview
Consent letter
Instructions
What to include in the
letter
How to find who the
councilor is
Sample letter
Editorial guidelines
Pairs of
journalists
An area to
investigate
A one
paragraph
introduction
One paragraph
Contact locals
Contact a
councillor
‘Publish’ article
Interview
information
Picture
A paragraph
Letter
explaining
what is lacking
in the
neighbourhood
Edited and
published
article
https://bb-gbc.blackboard.com/
Blackboard
tools
Sign-up sheets
Group space
Magazine space
Wiki
Wiki within
groups space
Wiki within
groups space
Wiki within
groups space
Wiki space
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• Use computer lab time to introduce tasks
• Show enthusiasm - key to success
• Give on-going support to students/teachers
• Showcase student work
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Identify a need
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Brainstorm with Instructional Designer (ID)
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Create a storyline
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Identify input i.e., tools provided to students
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Identify output i.e., students’ deliverables
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Select Blackboard tools (LMS)
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Develop the course with ID
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Liz Romero, PhD
Instructional Designer
lromero1@georgebrown.ca
Maria Glass, PhD
ESL Instructor
mglass@georgebrown.ca
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