Introduction to ArtificiaI Intelligence in Higher Education
Use of personal site in teaching process
1. Use of personal site in
teaching process
Savrasova Anna Nikolaevna,
PhD
Head of department
Of development of e-learning MGHU
Murmansk, 2012
2. What is a personal site in the teacher’s work?
• Organic bank of materials-
learning,cognitive,academic.
• The area of communication with trainee
• System support of the professional work of the
teacher
5. Embodied functions
• Placement of educational content
• Placement of training texts:
• Placement of the efficient organizational information:
• advertisements ,graphics.
• Placement of the tests
• PLACEMENT OF THE STUDENTS’ PERFORMED
WORKS
• Students’ text works
• individual tasks in image format
• Teamwork
• CONTROL OF STUDENTS’
• FEEDBACK
• ASSESSMENT OF THE SITE
15. 27
0
27 27
19
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Не посещал Раз в неделю Ежедневно
По настроению По необходимости
28
11
17
28
16
0
10
20
30
Информация преподавателя Интересные моменты практики
Фотоотчеты Делимся впечатлениями
Не посещал
22. Additional information
• see materials from the teachers’ summit, 2012
http://www.slideshare.net/PROelearning/eteachers-
090212-11730017
• Bannikov Sergei – Review of designers websites
http://www.hardnsoft.ru/?trID=378&artID=3382
• Comparison of websites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpbBRd1q78o
• Pavel Kireev - free web hosting review
http://seofin.ru/2010/02/28/obzor-besplatnyx-
xostingov/
23. Join us, look through the site, you are
welcome!
Site
THE DIARY OF TEACHING PRACTICE
(http://praktika.my1.ru)
Site
SDUDY’S WORK
(http://savrasova2009.my1.ru)
24. Use of personal site in
teaching process
Savrasova Anna Nikolaevna,
savrasova.anna@mshu.edu.ru
Murmansk, 2012
Editor's Notes
Personal site is a supplement to the traditional forms of teaching. It is not an obligatory component of professional activity, that is why the use of personal site in the work is defined by the desire of the teacher.
If we think over, why do we need it, how will it help us in our work, then we choose the site and we are ready to invest our time and intellect in it. Because the feature of any productive use of any information services is its being up to date. The information resource can not be created once and then constantly used. On the contrary, it requires constant mentoring, content, optimization - not even from the technological but from the content side. Therefore, the presence of the website requires constant attention both from the standpoint of the Administration and from the perspective of instructional design.
So, what is the personal site in the work of a teacher?
It is a systematic bank of various materials - educational, cognitive, academic.
This is an area of communication with the trainees.
It is the system support of the professional work that allows you to streamline and automate many actions of the teacher.
These are my personal conclusions, based on the years of the use of the site in my work.
The main task of the teacher is to relate, or to adapt, educational aims and information technology. More specifically, it is to answer the questions: what am I going to do on the site (which professional tasks will I solve with the help of the site) and which technical features (functions) will be used for this purpose? It is clear that we must be aware of the first and the second. By the way , the second - is the functional of supposed site, which on a particular hosting - you can cope with in the process of working.
In general, the following thing is important.
Any site is a number of pages with the system functions. You can use the free site builder, which is very much spread on the Internet.You need to choose a hosting service, define the ideology of the site (the main purpose,goals, objectives), get acquainted with the site design modules, select and plug the appropriate ones.
The next step is very important. It is consisting of thinking over the structure of the site content.
Since we are talking about an educational website that is site, which is designed to support, first of all , the educational process, the peculiarities of the educational process , familiar to you, should be taken into account, as well as educational programs, which you work with. This will be reflected in the pages of the site, as well as IN THE CATEGORIES AND SECTIONS of your pages. You should also think about the organization of students registered on the website (groups, cities, educational institutions).
Now you're ready to set up and fill the modules of the site. Settings are chose from the proposed system, do not be afraid, they can always be changed. During the filling of the site you should decide on the principles of stationing the information , guided by the Law "On Copyright", the site's purposes, objectives of the educational process and your options.
I will share my experience with two personal sites: DIARY OF TEACHING PRACTICE (http://praktika.my1.ru) and ACADEMIC WORK (http://savrasova2009.my1.ru) with the students. I'll tell you what tasks in which way are implemented on both sites. Once a reservation , a large proportion of the functional from the available in the chosen constructor is not being used, I even refused from some of the functions by some of the functions later on-from instant messaging, postal forms and counters.
What can be done with the help of the site?
PLACEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL CONTENT
Placement of training texts:
Placement of the operational the efficient organizational information: advertisements ,graphics.
Placement of the tests
PLACEMENT OF THE STUDENTS’ PERFORMED WORKS
Students’ text works
individual tasks in image format
Teamwork
CONTROL OF STUDENTS’
FEEDBACK
ASSESSMENT OF THE SITE
The PLACEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL CONTENT
Placement of training texts:
A separate section of the site, for users not to confuse
Catalogue of educational materials= file directory
Structured: Category (academic subjects) /
/ Sections (Methodological recommendation; useful materials)
The material appears as a Title and a brief description and displays information about the screenings, downloads, author of placing , date, comments.
When you click on the title -the full text in special form can be seen. It can be commented, and ratings may be in the form of stars.
It can also be downloaded as the file.
You can work further with the placed material: change, delete, define keywords for site search, view / change the statistics.
The articles can be sorted on various grounds for users - by date, rating, downloads, etc
This section is filled with by the teacher, although you can allow the students to add something as well.
My basic decision: I do not place the educational texts (books, files, etc.), only the personally created methodical recommendations or comments to some kind of resource.
Placement of the efficient organizational information: advertisements ,graphics, reminders to everybody.
Section bulletin board
As well structured : Categories (commonfor everybody, for some groups) /
/ Sections (groups of users ...)
Text of advertisement can be usually seen the whole day, but it can be opened in a separate window. It can be also managed as a document.
There is a separate section for text tasks- tests.
There are psychological tests, and joke tests from the company uCoz (blue headers), and the teachers’ tests are made with a list (in sort of links) at the beginning of the page.
When placing the test tasks the settings are being mounted: the number of answers,variants,evaluation options, test mode, etc. The range of settings is quite standard and allows you to replace the well-known third-party test services.
PLACEMENT OF THE STUDENTS’ PERFORMED WORKS
Students’ text works
A special section for text works – section CATALOGUE OF STUDENTS’ WORK
Students receive the instruction about the rules of allocation of the works in the section in advance . From my personal experience I would say that it is important to title the assignment in the right way and to insist on strict observance of given instructions.
There is a structure that is familiar to all - categories (objects, as in the all sections of the site), and sections – here are the training groups (course, code number, year). It is possible to choose the works of the students of particular groups. The total number of works is indicates , the name of the work (surname_task number) and a brief description. You can see the text by clicking on the title.
Assignments can be comment on, not only by a teacher, you can set the rating, you can implement the traditional functions of management: edit, hide, set the key words, etc.
Thus, this particular section is the main for placing the students’ text works which are done as a rule individually.
You can add the individual tasks by writing public reviews on other people's works, here in the section.
For the individual tasks performed in the format of the image there is a gallery section.
Categories of module are correlated with educational groups: each group has its own the album. And the section in the category is made if necessary for different tasks.
Structuring pages of the site - this is a very important issue that affects understandability of navigation and the orientation of the resource in general .
On the home page of the gallery sectionthere are all the albums ,you need to click on the name –and the album with all the photos will open. Each of them can be viewed in any desired size, made comments on, assessed, and traditionally, moderated.
Here you can see the tasks performed by students in the form of the scheme.
Group work is implemented by means of section Forum.This adjustment occurs through the administration panel, and all the major titles are reflected in the main field of the page. This year a lot of students worked here as they were at their school practice.
Assessing the activity of the students that work with documents on this site, we can say that every day the site is visited by 27% of the students, while for many other students the work with the site required a mood (27%) or a special necessity (19%) (Fig. 1).On the main forum several topics were set up, where students could discuss different problems which they are interested in: "Documents. The teacher’s information"," A personalized student intern, "" Let's start to share your impressions ... "," The most interesting moments in your practice, "" Different photos from your practice. "The most popular section was "Let's start to share your impressions" (150 views and 40 responses), while other themes were seen from 26 to 101 times, and from 3 to 22 responses (Fig. 2).
For the forum to "live", it should be a regularly moderated, daily and qualitatively. For the teacher it can be a very heavy work. If possible, full-time interactions, it is better not to use it too much.Here in the forum you can place exercises that can be made in the form of presentation.As a rule, I do not limit access to students’ works - their works are public. This is a very powerful motivator: everyone can see you work, there is a good reason to work hark. And of course, my comments also have a powerful impact, which are also public their function is education to all users. I try to comment taking into an account other readers, too.
CONTROL OF STUDENTS’ ACTIVITYControl begins with the registration. It is really necessary to explain clearly the rules of the behavior on the site for all users : everything is written on a separate page in the author's instructions. For the rule breaker’s there is a strict punishment- restriction of access to recourses. Otherwise, students do not always see this resource as official but rather as an entertaining resource. It is not appropriate to the aims of the course- to educate and bring up one more time!Section USERSPersonality Profile page, you can see all user activity:
FEEDBACKFunction Private messagesYou can exchange messages with the help of a personal profile and personal messages, and use mass mailing.At the same time you as the administrator of this site will receive information about any activity; toy will be always informed about what is happening on the site.E-mail Forms Module, Chat Module is switched off, were not demanded.I tried the module questioning, all in all, you can use it more often.
On the website of pedagogical practice an experience of using the module DIARY for rapid interaction with the students appeared to be very interesting.It was a popular resource! Note the number of visits of the page – min 177 and max 943!
ASSESSMENT OF THE SITEGraphs, statistics module
What can not the site do? Comparing with the Distance Learning System (DLS)The rating system is not integratedno functional E-deanREPLACE PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONA personal site is an educational environment for users.Some individual properties of the site may be omitted, join us, look through the site, you are welcome!
