I will be putting up notes about how I am teaching with Sakai – I will code them all with the string pedagogy in them to make searching easier in amonsgt all the nerdy posts as well.
\nSo far I am having great fun with Sakai – pre class start I have made my course site and published it – I have very few tools enabled:
\nAnnouncements
\nPolls
\nE-Mail Archive
\nI set it up knowing that students are still adding and dropping the course – as soon as they see it – they see the “welcome announcement” and are told to review the E-Mail archive.
\nI am taking a very valuable (both to me and the students) poll to gauge student experience level and am involving the students in the book selection via the E-Mail archive.
\nI make it very clear in the welcome announcement that any pre-class start participation is completely *optional*. Being able to later delete announcements is pedagocialy important to me because once class starts – the pre-class announcement is no longer relevant at all and would be distracting if I could not delete it.
\nThis is a good reason to let faculty pre-setup and publsh their classes under their own control – not waiting for tech support to run some script. I will reveal Sylabus, Resources, iTunesU, etc on my schedule – not tech support’s schedule.<\/p>\n
\nHere are my poll results so far:
\nI know multiple programming languages\t7\t18.421%
\nI have taken one intro programming class\t11\t28.947%
\nI have had a job as a software developer\t4\t10.526%
\nI have never written any software\t10\t26.316%
\nI have written a program with more than 1000 lines of code\t6\t15.789%
\nThese results, while incomplete – really paint a clear picture of where the class needs to go – it must be slow enough for beginners and interesting enough for strong students. I am expecting to try to get the stronger students to help the weaker students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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