Designing a course for Elluminate would offer significant challenges for high school students. Although I believe that any course could be adapted to this technological format, the considerations for general population students would be enormous. First of all, the things I would need to consider; internet access, computer literacy, responsibility, dependability and of course training. Secondly, knowledge and assessment of the individual students would be an important detail in the initial planning phases of an elluminate course. Finally, Healthcare Science as the subject matter will offer a few challenges of its own as well as the high school setting itself. Considering all of these factors, I would be most likely to utilize this as a combination course, live dates and elluminate dates, and with advanced level students only.
The types of activities that I would like to use would include groups, small groups, whole group discussions, brainstorming, panel discussions, lecture, student presentation and group projects. I am not so sure how videos work within this environment but I would use it if adaptable. There are many positive attributes of Elluminate; however, I have difficulty visualizing the program for high school students. I think that it could allow a more detailed or in debt coverage of Healthcare Science theory, especially for the introductory courses. Additionally the technology at hand could improve student accessibility and utilization of technical tools for group projects and presentations. Ultimately, Elluminate has been a wonderful experience for me and has given me additionall insight into the technological advancements that are available to us.
Delores,
ReplyDeleteHealthcare is an excellent example of one of the areas that needs the hands on. Elluminate can certainly be used to enhance a program such as yours. It would not be the main method of teaching Health Science with all the hands on needed.
The use of video is a very creative idea to incorporate into the Elluminate. Elluminate is one more tool to incorporate into our teaching/learning experience to better reach the needs of all students.
Thanks,
Ron
Delores,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about your content area, but disagree with presenting it only to AP students. Only because I have a number of lower level special ed students and they thrive on the computer. They would rather read from a computer screen than from a book. Also, the students that have technology modifications are already use to the headset and microphone. You would be suprised at how many on level and lower level students would enjoy this. Even if they are slow to start, they would catch on extremely fast. They treat these things like games! It would work well for the majority of students, not just AP students. :-)