Back to the contracts - with peer’s eyes

This week you have one important task: to peer review the contracts of your groupmates from the perspective of groupwork.

Each of you did something for the e-learning course design. This SOMETHING should be part of your individual contract.

Before peers can review your contracts, in the beginning of the week, pleas make an update to your contracts AS A NEW POST NEW contract. It is useful to keep initial contracts intact and not to modify them. These new contracts must be related with your tasks and evaluation as part of the group.

You can add link from new contract to old contract to keep them related.

As soon as the contracts are done, we make the PEER review of contracts. Please go and comment the contracts of your peers, the main is to see is it sufficiant what they plan as part of the group…is it effective what they plan as action strategies? Can their work be evaluated according to the criteria they have suggested?

I hope in the end of the week we can try out this peer review of RENEWED contracts.

Re:5. Week (30.3.-5.4.): Learning contract (Mikko)

I was reading 5. Week (30.3.-5.4.): Learning contract (Mikko) on Blogs for the red sun.. and i think the contract has been elaborated very clearly and will probably serve as a useful tool.
When you make any changes in the contract, please use new post every time and link it with the old contract postings - then it is possible to trace back and see changes.

Mart has used the iLogue tool for contracts. That is another alternative how to do it. However, pay attention that the contract should reflect your OWN activities rather than those of the whole group!

Those who have not managed to write down your personal contracts yet, please do it! It is part of how you get grades.

week 5 activities

This week we are continuing to form the group space.

From last week we are still a bit delayed in preparing the very first draft of how our course will look like as an outline. Here are some ideas from Mikko.

I suggest this would be the shared task for the week to end up with some clear outline and components: What is the course about? Where is the course held? Who is the target group?

Few general modules (weeks of the course)should be planned:

OBJECTIVE OF THE WEEK

ACTIVITIES

RESOURCES

EVALUATION CRITERIA

You do not need to prepare a large course, but rather a prototype how the course should look like in a certain new learning environment.

This week you should also think how you are going to divide work and activities when planning and preparing the course.

The main task individually is to start a PERSONAL LEARNING CONTRACT

You can keep it as blog postings in the beginning of the course plannig, in the middle and in the end.

See the reflection template elements:

• My objectives: Why i wish to learn/do something, what is meaningful for me/for my group as part of the assignment i am responsible of?
• What resources will i need: What software tools and resources i am going to use? Resources can be people, different artifacts, materials.
• How will i do it: What is my strategy to achieve my objectives? What is the order of my actions? How will i use different resources in my actions?
• Evaluation criteria: How do I know that i was successful? Develop measurable criteria to evaluate your activities in respect of your objectives.
• Self-reflection: Did i achieve my objectives? Use the criteria what you developed to assess how well did you work. Reflect, what worked and what did not?

This week, AFTER planning jointly how you aredoing the course design, you need to think what is YOUR part in groupwork. The personal contract reflects your par of work.