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Tena Crews

Tena Crews

About me

Stealth Consulting, LLC

Consultants: Tena B. Crews & Kelly Wilkinson

Our mission is to train business personnel and educators in the areas of:

1) providing content, whether for educational or informational purposes, in a blended or pure online environment;
2) assessment in online/e-learning;
3) additional areas as deemed necessary.

Interests

online learning, design and assessment

Activity

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Authoring Online Course
Lisa & Claireann, Thanks for continuing the conversation. Many people discuss learning styles and whether or not students really have different learning styles. The key point is to provide information to students so that they see it, hear it, watch it, try it, etc. in a variety of ways. Thanks!
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Authoring Online Course
Lisa, You are right. Three is a bit of a narrow focus, but we just wanted to start the discussion somewhere. ;-) You are right on target. Thank you.
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Authoring Online Course
Lisa, Definitely. Knowing where the student are coming from and where you want to take them are essential. I also like your ideas of getting feedback from others as you develop your course framework. Thanks!
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Technology Communication Tools
Rebecca, Social networking can be used effectively in the classroom (online or F2F) - no doubt. I use Jing and Adobe Connect to show students how to do things or meet synchronously. There are lots of resources and I'm glad you found one that works for you. Great!
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Technology Communication Tools
Kendra, The technology should definitely not hinder the learning. That's a must. The learning curve will be different for each student and as an instructor you can provide tips for learning or tips for technology to help them. Nice job.
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Technology Communication Tools
Erin, Right on! The instructor has to know the subject matter and is developing it appropriately for the course. Determining (diagnostic assessment) what the students know and their technology ability helps the instructor determine how quickly/slowly to go through the material and what extra steps may have to be taken to help students become successful. Nice job.
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Variations of Evaluations

Joe, I agree. An integrated approach works for many different things. Kirkpatrick does include the following (if we're talking about the same Kirkpatrick) but I find four steps. â—¦Step 1: Reaction - How well did the learners like the learning process? â—¦Step 2: Learning - What did they learn? (the extent to which the learners gain knowledge and skills) â—¦Step 3: Behavior - (What changes in job performance resulted from the learning process? (capability to perform the newly learned skills while on the job) â—¦Step 4: Results - What are the tangible results of the learning process in terms of… >>>

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Developing Meaningful Feedback
Joe, Thank you for you great input to this forum. You are right on with your comments. Students are people and treating them as such helps develop the respect needed to build an effective learning environment. Developing learning outcomes and communicating the outcomes is certainly necessary. With the feedback you provide to students many times comes the motivation. Feedback should be meaningful and help the students improve. The rubrics provide guidelines for both the students and teachers. They are a must. I like the way you think! ;-) Thanks again.
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Authoring Online Course
bobbe, Yes, knowing where students "are coming from" and what they know helps develop a good course framework. Assessing students to determine what they know and what they don't know is equally important. The more people you get to assess a course, the more feedback you'll get from different perspectives. Nice job. Thanks for your input.
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Evaluating Rubrics
Why should you evaluate the rubrics you use?

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