Week 4 Wimba-Review of Leadership Project

Comments from Alison:

I think you brought up a very important point in that having confidence about technology is almost more important than knowing the technology itself.

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Just some thoughts I have:

I like your project - I think you definitely have created something of benefit to teachers.  Perhaps you could initiate more conversation by creating video tutorials or showcases of the technology tools you or others mention and post them on your Facebook page. Presenting this at a conference would surely give you a larger audience to work with and help with building up connections on your page. The Music PLN is moving to a facebook page too, so you’re definitely on the right track with choosing Facebook as your forum of choice. As long as you’ve found your niche with the content, the people will eventually come.  Great job Dana!

Comments from Amanda:

Dana,

First off your presentation is beautiful and the whole general concept of the CBR is clearly laid out. What I had found in your presentation was the ability to present exactly what you did in this project to you audience. I think you did this very well, even someone that may not have any idea what the CBR learning model is can understand what your were trying to do, so I commend you for that.

  Although you were not able to carry out your original plan for the CBR project you clearly state what changes were made. Your challenge would definitely be just that. Since your target audience would have to go on at their own discretion the problems that could arise would be a lack of participation. What I really liked about your project is that you were able to incorporate the social network Facebook as part of the process since it was more likely your audience would already have access to an account.

During Phase 1 your project seemed to have started out on a high note and teachers were communicating throughout the process. I also think it was important that you did your best to keep the communication ongoing by posting questions for discussions. Although you may had hoped for more of a discussion, I think you did have a meaningful collaboration session taking place with the time that you had to do so.

What I think you express so well in your presentation was the changes that were taking place in your career and life at the time, I think this really will allow your audience to see the progress taking place with your project even when you were going through major changes throughout this program.

Just a minor note in the reflection page. The statement:

“Generally speaking, I think incorporating CBR projects into classrooms will help students take responsible for their own learning, as well as be active, rather than passive learners.” I think you meant to write responsibility. Other than that I think this is a powerful statement, using it as an opening statement for your reflection page is brilliant.

Another thing you added in the reflection page that I thought was a good note was the timing your project took place. I too found that the timing did cause issues to arise because of how busy school can be especially during November – January. Another issue that also seems to occur during this time was due to the holidays taking place.

Giving the project more time to generate more collaboration is a great idea, not only for your situation, but I think others completing the CBR would also agree with this.

Your ideas for a phase 3 are perfect suggestions. I think adding face-to-face interactions would provide more accountability for participating in the discussion along with creating a sense of community for your audience.

All in all, I think you did a wonderful job with your presentation and clearly stated the process it took throughout, which I think is so important. You also give great ideas and advice on how to improve the project for others interested in this type of learning model.

I hope I was able to provide you some positive feedback to make your project better, but I think that you did such a wonderful job it was hard to find anything wrong. I hope you are able to present this at the your chosen conference. Great Job Dana!