Week 4- Ecomp 6202

We worked collaboratively on a project last week. Each person in a partner group had to create an assessment, use it to score the same collection of responses, and then compare their results to their partners scores. As an educator, I found the experience to be reassuring. It helped to justify how I examine students' responses and score them. My partner and I scored similarly 80% of the time. Our differences were mainly  due to the construction of our different assessment pieces.

Personally, this term is moving smoothly. I am only taking one course and find that with the end of the school year, I made a good choice to slow down a bit with the course work. When I take a course or courses each semester, I always wonder whether or not I will be able to utilize it in my current position. So far, I have not been disappointed, much of the course work is flexible and pertinent to the different age groups. I teach in an elementary school setting and I have been able to adapt the content I have learned towards our school curriculum and share it with co-workers.

Week 2 of Ecomp 6202

I have been in the online masters program since September 2010. I should have all classes completed by December 2011. I am really enjoying the classes and have begun to integrate much of what I am learning (Despite what Bill Gates says of teachers' graduate work!). I am excited to learn more.
The class I am presently taking Ecomp 6202(Online Teaching: Assessment and Evaluation), is one of four classes that focus specifically on teaching a course online. I felt that it would be foolish to not take the opportunity to take all four. I have already taken Ecomp 6201(Online Teaching: An Introduction for K-12 Educators) with Lisa McBride and would highly recommend others to enroll in her course.