Scenario 2 (Activity D) Soo Hoon/Siyun

Scenario 2 (Activity D)

In this activity, you are to read Scenario 2 carefully and then describe what you would do differently from Mrs. Xing in order to prepare for the e-learning week (you may change the topic if you wish). Post this in your group blog and invite others to respond.
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E-learning can be a useful tool to adopt but at the same time, if it is not planned and monitored properly, it may result in many issues (in Mrs.Xing lesson, they were plagiarisms and pornography). I feel that Mrs. Xing has great ideas for what is to be done during the E-learning week just that the instructions should be in more details to lead the students and optimize the effectiveness of the E-learning week. Furthermore, Mrs.Xings did not include cyberwellness education into the preparation . The followings are what I will do instead.

Preparation before E-learning week

• Conduct cyberwellness lesson (at least for the components on plagiarisms and pornography) in class to educate them about the dangers which they may encounter during the E-learning week.
• Bring students to the computer lab (Scenario 1) and perhaps for them to use the Freemind to construct mind map on cyberwellness. (This helps to the students to internalise the things they have learnt about cyberwellness in class)
• Ask the students to post at least 1 item on the discussion forum on cyberwellness.
• Group blogs are to be created during the lab session. (Blogger)
• All the above help to equip the students with the necessities for the E-learning week.
• Check that all students have Internet access and suitable Microsoft PowerPoint at home.
• Teacher is to remind the students that after the E-learning week, she/he will build his/her lesson from the mindmap they have constructed. This is indirectly informs students that this assignment does not serve merely for the E-learning week. They are suppose to complete their assignment conscientiously.
• A brief outline of what students are supposed to do during the E-learning week without revealing the topic. (A sheet of instructions can be printed and be given to the students)

Assignment for E-learning week

• A PowerPoint file (2003-2007) will be uploaded into the school's Learning Management System (LMS). The file contained instructions for the task, Web sites students could visit, and some questions to guide and stimulate students' thinking.
• Teacher will be on Skype during allocated slot to answer students questions and provide help if they face technical problem.
• The students are to research on the topic energy and draw a concept map using Freemind to organise the information they found.
• Students are to take part in discussion forum in the LMS based on the concept maps they created. Each of them are to post at least 2 items.
• After the active participation in the discussion, they are to write a reflection on their group blog (at least 100 or 150 words) of What they have learn, what they want to know and etc.