Personal Learning Reflection II

Through this class I have been able to improve the design of my technology based lessons. Specifically by learning about UDL, StAIR and instructional design strategies. I have been developing lessons already but by using the pedagogy used in the regular classroom setting which does not always apply. There were a great deal of frustrating trial and error experience. Utilizing the aforementioned strategies, I feel confident that my lessons have a high probability for success the first time around. This save frustration for the students and myself. Almost as important is that this save me time. Now instead of redoing a lesson I can just fine tune it to meet every one's needs.

My long term goal has been to develop a online parallel to my chemistry and AP environmental science class using Moodle. UDL has guided me to diversify my instructional delivery to meet the needs of a wider base of students. For example, in my StAIR I included closed captioning, video, audio and quiz questions. The StAIR design has allowed me to streamline my online instructional lessons making the experience for the user more cohesive. The Goal Directed Instructional Design (GDID) helped my to organize my goals for each lesson allowing me to make an over all unit plan that covers all of the standards effectively.

Moving forward, I will continue to improve my Moodle courses by creating more StAIR activities while incorporating the SCORM reporting capabilities if Camtasia Studio to monitor students progress. These and other lessons will be created following the UDL, GDID and ISTE principles. The next step for my long term goal will be support and improve my instructional techniques through research and best practices. In CEP 812 the main objective is to define a specific educational problem and find a solution. Current problems I could address are, how to more effectively involve parents with online curriculum, improving student's ability to self pace, improving student note taking, implementing online assessments, and improving overall performance on summative assessments.