Session 3 Responses to Prompts

A. Download the interactionsmatrix.doc file. Note that this is a table listing the three types of interactions at the top, with some sample activities on the left. Place an X in the cells to indicate which activities correspond to which interactions. Add some additional activities of your own and mark the cells appropriate to the types of interactions each represents.

 

	Learner-Content	Learner-Instructor	Learner-Learner
Video Presentation	X
Lecture	X
Chat		X	X
Discussion		X	X
Email		X	X
Blog		X	X

 

B. Discuss of the types of interactions that are most often used in the content area for which you expect to design instruction. Be sure to explain the content area, the types of students and types of objectives with which you will be working.

Guidance Course

Content: This course is a guidance course at a community college.  It teaches students to understand the roadmap of community college: how to register for classes according to their Educational Plan, how to transfer into to a 4-year university, earn an Associate’s Degree, and how to utilize all the resources available to them.

Students: Students that have been attended college for over 5 years and have not transferred or earned a degree.

Objectives: Learn how to register to classes, learn what sequence of classes to take and when to take them, and learn resources available to them

 

Interactions: Learner-Learner and Learner-Content are the types of interactions often utilized by the students in this course (with minimum interaction with the instructor), because the goal course is for students to be successful and self-sufficient.  Learners will have lots of connect activities such as: research, job aids and evaluating their current situation and assessing what their next steps should look like.  Keeping in mind that these ideas are fluid they can always come back and reevaluate.

C. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 of the Horton text discuss three categories of activities: Absorb, Do, and Connect. After reading these chapters you are to locate one or more online classes and identify one Absorb, one Do and one Connect activity. Present your findings using this format:

 

Activity: Absorb
URL: http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/management-in-organizations-top-middle-low-level-managers.html#transcript

Course Content: Management in organizations: Top, Mid and Low-Level managers, their roles, functions and responsibilities.

Intended Students/Probable Student Characteristics: Business/ Management students

Instructor Characteristics: Knowledgeable in Business/ Management basics

Identify and Discuss the Interactions in the Activity: The activity in course is presentation.  Students view and animated presentation to learn the different types of management levels and functionality within those roles.

 

Activity: Do
URL: http://www.gcflearnfree.org/word2010/14

Course Content: Students will learn how to insert a shape and format it by changing its fill color, outline color, shape style, and shadow effects; plus, apply 3-D effects to shapes.

Intended Students/Probable Student Characteristics: Students learning how to

Instructor Characteristics: Knowledgeable in Microsoft Suites

Identify and Discuss the Interactions in the Activity: Students in this course experience hands-on activity by creating shapes, shadow effects and applying 3-D effects to their work.

 

Activity: Connect
URL: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=397625

Course Content: How active young people should actually be, and discuss how PE teachers can ensure they are making an effective contribution to this area of public health.

Intended Students/Probable Student Characteristics:  Students are beginner/ experienced Physical Education teachers or anyone interested in public health.

Instructor Characteristics: extensive knowledge and background in physical and public health
Identify and Discuss the Interactions in the Activity: This course includes ponder, questioning, and original work activities.  After each section of reading there are discussions that require students to evaluate the material and their own opinion(s) of the material and at the end there is a part that incorporates the student’s original work.