There are more sites that can be used as Media hosting sites than I ever realized.
I learned more about the education-specific platforms instructors can use in addition to the mainstream hosting and sharing media. While, my schooling integrated certain mainstream planforms, I hadn't realized the sills they helped build. Even though I may not use the specific topics in daily life at the moment, the tech and media skills can now be applied in other real-life and career scenarios.
Comment on Lesley Fielding's post: Agree 100%. All students come to you with different levels of capabilities. As such, evaluating the rubrics every so often should occur.
Using videos and other media definitely enhances the learning experience for students.
Rubrics is a special tool to be used to keep the students on task
There are so many tools and platforms to be used in social media. We have to tailor their use for a purpose
A flexible rubric in a technical aspect would be most benefit due to the different theory of the subject operation.
I was unaware that blogs were accepted as social media sites since they are largely opinions by the blogger. I always viewed them as akin to wikis and have had my English students shy away from them for that reason.
I would like to implement the use of more social media activities in my classroom.
Using media hosting helps remove barriers to learning: socio-economic, physical distance, learning disabiities, language issues.
Using media hosting and sharing sites also helps remove barriers to learning such as socio-economic barriers, physical distance, learning disabilities, and even language barriers when information is provided with captioned text and in various languages.
All Media Hosting and sharing should be consistent with the course objectives
Reply to Becca Humphrey's post: I valued this portion of the training because that was my initial reaction and question..."how do I grade something like this?"
Reply to Ashley McClellan's post:
I agree, but my main issue is, no matter the type of rubric, students just don't follow it! Very frustrating
There are various social media tools that can prove useful to the instructor in incorporating it into their course. The suggested tools were TeacherTube, SchoolTube, iTunesU, and YouTube Edu, which I will research to learn more and to apply these as I enhance the social media that is already included in my classes.
Joyce Hladky, Instructor
Rubric for assignments that include media and other various forms of technology have to be very clear...especially when dealing with Baby Boomers. Challenges that are seemless for some, are frustratingly tedious for them. Also, be sure to include common pitfalls, errors, FAQ's, etc. that students may encounter when dealing with assignments like this. If you don't, then get ready for the slew of emails and questions to follow because you failed to prepare.
Social networking sites need to be easily accessed by students. When determining the assessment of activities on social networking sites, a rubric is a good idea. The rubric allows students to see what is expected of their performance and makes it easier for the instructor to make a fair assessment. Although I have found rubrics a challenge to design in order to make them share the specific requirements of an assignment, they are worth the time taken to develop a strong rubric.
Students are using various online tools to cater to different requirements. It will not be wrong to say that social media and education goes hand in hand in the modern world.
When it comes down to media sharing, it's something that must be assessed open minddedly. Each use of media should be assessed for various things like audience, relevance, quality, etc.
Rubrics should not be designed to be rigid, and taking an open-mind approach is best when dealing with students on social media and postings.
I must not have an open mind. What I read in much of this section was assessing students on their use of these tools - not on the content of the course (unless, of course, the course content is about using the tools).
