We gave it a try now our students love Sakai!

We gave it a try now our students love Sakai! John Harper & Geoff Burrows School of Agricultural & Wine Sciences Charles Sturt University 1

Summary
Botany
First Year subject
Approx 50 students on campus & 100 DE students
Interact
Announcements – Active engagement with students
Blogs - Introductions
Wikis –collaboration – dictionary ; mnemonics
Test Centre – Formative assessment
Chat room – chat with each other & lecturer
Forum & subforums – questions; organisation
Resources – Lectures; quizzes; past exams; links…..
Podcasts – headsup!
2

Interact
Announcements – Active engagement with students
New resources
hints on study
Fun learning community
“ Reach out and Touch somebody!”
4

Blogs – Introductions……
1% carrot
I got to know the students better and they learned about each others aspirations and backgrounds and fears!
Some study groups formed
5

Wikis –collaboration – dictionary ; mnemonics
Dictionary in our own words:
Micropyle: Point where pollen tube enters ovary. Also, later becomes the opening where water taken into seed for germination
A small hemeroid?
7

A joint project between Team Botany and students Unit 1 Very Small Dogs Sniff Feet – Vascular tissue, Sporophyte Dominant, Seed, Fruit Evolutionary leaps from mosses to angiosperms. Mnemonic- thanks to my mum ’ s dog Benji Kids Playing Chicken On Freeways Get Squashed : Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species All Good Pterodactyls Like Broccoli : Angiosperms, Gymnosperms, Pteridophytes, Lycophytes, Bryophytes Botany Mnemonics 8

Test Centre – Formative assessment
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Chat room – chat with each other & lecturer
Forum & subforums – questions; organisation
Needed to remind students that I wasn’t ‘waiting’ in the room for their questions!
Organised times for chatting via chat room organiser – subforum
Requests for chats with me or others
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Podcasts – headsup!
Resources – Lectures; quizzes; past exams; links…..

Verbal Directions Pod casts of past exam answers

Double Fertilisation Tutorial

Double Fertilisation

1. Label the diagram in the next slide 2. List and explain the key steps involved in double fertilization and its outcomes. Starting point is the 2 nuclei (1 & 2 in the diagram on the next slide) approaching a structure that contains 8 nuclei. Note the two nuclei in 1 & 2 are different from those at the top of the diagram Double Fertilisation exam Question

Double Fertilsation explained Animation
http://www.emunix.emich.edu/~ghannan/systbot/NewFiles/animation%203801.swf
After viewing the animation Try the exam question

Supermarket Botany! See: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/grahamcentre/education/

“ Just a pinch of this underground stem in your curry……”

What the students say………….
“ I felt part of a learning community”
“ I knew that my questions would be answered quickly”
“ I love the exam answer keys”
“ I put the verbal directions on my mobile..”
“ I’ve discovered that learning can be fun!”

In summary
OK so Interact may be a bit clunky but it is lightyears ahead of the forum for enabling a learning community
I’m looking forward to Sakai 3 !
John

We gave it a try now our students love Sakai!

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