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In your WordPress blog, you will create a digital summary of EDCI 339 that demonstrates clear evidence of your learning and how your learning connects to your future learning or employment goals. The portfolio will include evidence of your learning from throughout the course which was demonstrated through your individual and pod mandatory activities. The portfolio can be added to your current WordPress blog as an additional page, post, or combination of those. You can add a password to keep this page from public view or keep it open.
It is highly encouraged that you collect evidence of your learning throughout this course in order to contribute to the ePortfolio in stages (weekly) rather than all at once at the end of the course.
The portfolio is a way to make your learning visible. It will be a collection of the digital artifacts that you have created throughout the course, evidence of additional connections/ interactions you have had with other learners and reflections about your learning process throughout this course.
The portfolio will need to include the following components:
Please write a ~200 word post reflecting on the ‘open’ activities and explorations from this week.
The record of the TwitterChat is still available in Twitter by searching #edci339. If you are having difficulty accessing Twitter, let me know! You should also explore the feeds of the people I highlighted in my Topic 4 post.
I’d like your reflection to be on what people in the open community are talking about. You might pick one or two themes from the things you see and reflect on how you might incorporate that learning or those ideas into your practice as a professional.
One updated and revised blog post. Choose one of your blog posts from the four topics that you wrote about in this course and make a copy of it. Based on the instructor and pod feedback, demonstrate how you have made changes and additions to the blog post by expanding upon the original blog (up to 500 words – unlimited digital artifacts can be included but not included in 500 words). Make sure you include a link back to the original post and please include linked (APA 7 or other) in-text citations and a list of references at the bottom of your revised post.. To expand upon your previous blog post, you might want to consider:
- Connect and chat with a current teacher or professional to get their perspective of this topic.
- Reading some additional articles or resources to compare and contrast academic perspectives that further develop your understanding of the topic.
Update and revise one of your individual posts to include more in-depth research and exploration of the topic. This isn’t just a task to correct grammar or spelling. You need to go deeper in your thinking about the topic. Find a couple scholarly resources in the library, or check https://irrodl.org, and write about how your views might be changing. Your revised post should be somewhere around 500-700 words.
Required reading throughout the course:
Topic 1
1. Stommel, J. (2018). An urgency of teachers: The work of critical digital pedagogy. Hybrid Pedagogy. 2. Vaughan, N. D., Garrison, D. R., & Cleveland-Innes, M. (2013). Teaching in blended learning environments: Creating and sustaining communities of inquiry. AU Press. [Chapter 1] 3. Regan, P., & Jesse, J. (2019). Ethical challenges of edtech, big data and personalized learning: Twenty-first century student sorting and tracking. Ethics and Information Technology, 21(3), 167-179. DOI: 10.1007/s10676-018-9492-2
Topic 2
1. Read Claire Howell Major. (2015). Teaching Online - A Guide to Theory, Research, and Practice. Retrieved from
http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uvic/detail.action?docID=3318874(pp.88-105)
Note: UVic login required. 2. Read Jordan, K., & Weller, M. (2017). Jordan, K. & Weller, M. (2017) Openness and Education: A beginners’ guide. Global OER Graduate Network.
Topic 3
1. Read Chapter 1 of A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students . 2. Read Digital Redlining, Access, and Privacy . 3. Read Chapter 4 of Safe Learning Spaces. Youth, Literacy and New Media in Remote Indigenous Australia.
Topic 4
1. Read Wiley, D. & Hilton, J. (2018). Defining OER-enabled Pedagogy. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 19(4).