Week 12 OCT

Final Project

Link to course in progress: https://wssu.haikulearning.com/nick/haikulmsminiunit

Link to Google Doc Plan: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sRYDw-pljE1sEFjOxl5yEFKJu5DXzJy3UvlXST0GPUk/edit?usp=sharing

I've decided to combine my OCT final project as the final component of my mini-lesson for Teaching with Technology. I wish to create a four part workshop to introduce teachers to the ideas of proficiency-based learning and show how a learning management system like Haiku LMS can aid in facilitating a more personalized approach to learning. Teachers will be evaluated summatively using a standards-based gradebook. Here is the outline of my course:

Course Outline

• Introduction/Overview
• Objectives
• Prerequisites

• Unit 1: PLP and Standards Based Grading

• Objectives
• Demonstrate understanding of Standards/Proficiency-Based Grading and Grade book
• Show understanding regarding why an LMS would be helpful in implementing a personalized proficiency-based learning environment.
• Assessment
• Discussion Posts

• Unit 2: Haiku LMS

• Objectives
• Identify the parts of a Haiku Page
• Home Page
• eportfolio
• Top Toolbar
• Bottom Toolbar
• Class Tabs
• Gradebook
• Assignments
• Dropbox
• Inbox
• Identify Haiku Page Modules
• Polls
• Discussions
• Rubrics
• Assessment
• Haiku Exam

• Unit 3: Create a Class

• Objectives
• Design a Haiku Page
• Decide what is best for your situation:
• Simple or more complex design
• Create an assignment and align it to the standards
• Assessment
• Creation Rubric

• Unit 4: Tools for Creativity: Combining Standards with Project-Based Learning

• Objectives
• Identify ways to use various online tools to enrich instruction
• Assessment
• Haiku Exam
• Rubric

The lessons within each individual unit will be organized using the "read, watch, do" type format.  Unit 4 will be designed to introduce teachers to various online tools and present examples of how the tools can be used to facilitate project-based learning assignments that in turn can be show cased in a student's e-portfolio.