4.7.4 Online collaboration experience

A reflect on the collaborative process I experienced in this lesson 4.7.

I found collaboration to be good during this lesson. It helped me to move on where I was lagging behind. In fact collaboration makes the course move because it has the element of peer assessment where one fears to miss the marks from the fellow learners.

The unique challenges of collaborating online.

The challenges of online collaboration are that some members are too slow and it makes the ‘speed merchants’ demoralized.

Some members read their fellow learners’ contribution late when other groups have already moved on.

Sometimes the Internet is intermittent in some hours of the day, yet it might be the only limited space of time outside classroom hours at the work place. 

I intend to use the following resources in my classroom which I discovered and I will adapt to them when needs arises:

·         http://www.nothingbeatstherealthing.info/resources-guide

·         http://www.teachingcopyright.org

·        https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/25308415/Legal%20Aspects%20of%20OER

·         https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/services/copyrigh

          

·         http://www.copyright.com/learn/media-downloads/  

How I would integrate the teaching of search literacy and information literacy skills in my teaching.4.6.4

I first make my Students know what they are looking for, then when using a search engine like Google for example, they have to be able to identify the proper search terms.

They have to critic their sources in form of assessing the information found in those sources considering validity, accuracy and reliability or appropriateness for the purpose intended.

I also teach or encourage them to use social networks and information tools to gather and share information amongst themselves and to me-their teacher.