Helping students with their Journals

Since the beginning of this “e-Portfolio” thing, I have been relying a lot on Journals in Mahara as evidence of student growth and to promote reflective learning. So far, so good, except for the fact that students keep forgetting how to do it or sometimes, do things in a way that is not really what I want. So, last year, in the Global Citizenship Course, I made a video that showed the whole process: from writing a journal entry to Read More …

Mapping course objectives and CT

I am not sure it is possible… yet, but lately I have been thinking that there must be a way to map my course objectives with critical thinking. The Bloom’s Taxonomy comes to mind… now the questions is, can a (easy to understand) mapping be done? Today I found a document from the West University of Florida which tries to educate instructors on how to write effective learning objectives. It looks like a place to start. The document can be Read More …

CT & AL Handbook

On Friday last week I sent an email to faculty asking them to provide me a tree paragraph explanation of (at least) one CT and/or AL activity they do in their classes. The idea is to document what we are doing and also be able to provide new faculty with a tangible document introducing some ideas of AL and CT in the classroom. Well, today I finally finished the first mock-up with 11 activities. It might look as a small Read More …