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Title: Managing Online Discussions with a Participation Portfolio


1
Managing Online Discussions with a Participation
Portfolio
  • John Fritz
  • UMBC
  • July 23, 2008

2
Overview
  • Background
  • Problem
  • Solution
  • Require a Participation Portfolio
  • Create a Quality Discussion Rubric
  • Create a Portfolio Template (MS Word)
  • Influences Handouts
  • Q A

3
ADP Best Practice
4
Evolving CMS Use by Faculty
  • User Document Management (Pull)
  • Password-protected class group space
  • Attach or Copy/Paste Documents (expiration)
  • Communications (Push)
  • Announcements
  • Email, Messages
  • Discussion Chat
  • Assessments (Push Pull)
  • Electronic assignment delivery collection
  • Quizzing, Surveys, Course Usage

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Online Discussion Assessment Problems
  • Quantity-Based
  • How do you avoid rewarding me too or I agree
    posts?
  • Quality-Based
  • Tedious to find, subjective, a pain to justify to
    students.

7
Solution Self-Graded Portfolio
  • Instructor defines grading rubric for good post
    reply (this is THE hardest task for instructors).
  • Students propose grade they feel they deserve,
    based on 3-5 examples of each.
  • Evidence must be taken from separate weeks to
    avoid end of semester dog pile.
  • Students copy and paste examples into a
    portfolio and submit electronically.
  • Instructor can accept, raise or lower grade based
    on quality of evidence based on rubric (1).

8
Assignment Upload
9
Assignment Requirements
10
Discussion Grading Rubric
11
Discussion Portfolio Example
12
Discussion Interaction Types
  • Student-Content (SC)
  • Student-Student (SS)
  • Student-Group (SG)

13
Student-Content (SC) Type
  • Aspects
  • Post a few salient sentences on the topic
  • Link posts to course theories, lectures or texts
    (synthesis analysis)
  • Cite new or existing sources whenever possible.

14
Student-Student (SS) Type
  • Aspects
  • Draw out a colleagues assumptions through
    probing follow up queries
  • Dispute positions with which you do not agree
  • Defend your own position with evidence.

15
Student-Group (SG) Type
  • Aspects
  • Provoke thought (not emotions) about a new idea
    or issue
  • Contribute to the civil discourse or edification
    of the class
  • Encourage participation of others.

16
Fixed Duration for Discussions
  • Set discussions with fixed start end
  • Benefits
  • Students will be more proactive (especially if
    you require a discussion portfolio)
  • Laggards cant chime in at the end of semester.
  • Easier to manage one discussion at a time, than
    several concurrently.

17
Testimonial
  • Chris Swan, Geography
  • Improving Student Learning in a Hybrid Course
  • 10/10/05 Brown Bag Workshop
  • Blackboard Best Practices
  • 09/21/07 iTunesU QA

18
ADP Best Practice
  • Use MS Word Form Portfolio

19
Problem
  • Students struggle with form content of atypical
    assignments.
  • I want to know how students analyze their own
    discourse and participation.
  • I want to make most efficient use of my time.

20
Solution MS Word Form
  • Create a form that students complete and submit
    online.
  • Benefits
  • Guides the student in what youre looking for
  • Standardizes student input which makes grading
    more efficient

21
Portfolio Template
22
Portfolio Discussion Grade
23
How to Create MS Word Forms
24
MS Word Form Toolbar
  • Options
  • Text box
  • Check box
  • Drop down menu
  • Form field options
  • Table
  • Frames
  • Shading
  • Lock (Tip enable before save/upload so users can
    download/fill in).

25
Portfolio Influences
  • It Takes A Village

26
Performance-based Portfolio (2003)
  • Karin Readel, UMBC Geography Professor
  • Developed an extra credit discussion portfolio
    for analysis of related articles.

27
Discussion Forum w/Expiration Dates Grading
Rubric (2005)
  • Michael Scheuermann, Drexel University
  • Builds student responsibility for discussions by
    establishing forum or chat duration windows and
    grading rubrics
  • 1/13/05 Educause MARC Presentation

28
Discussion Template (2005)
  • Chris Swan, UMBC Geography Professor
  • Developed an MS Word Template to Capture
    (standardize?) students best 3-5 posts for
    portfolio.

29
Discourse Analysis-based Rubric (2006)
  • Patricia Verdines, Adjunct Professor, UM CLIS
  • Classified types of threaded discussion
    interactions.
  • 3/31/06 UM TWT Conference

30
Links
  • UMBCs Hybrid Training Program http//www.umbc.edu
    /oit/hybrid/training
  • UMBCs Most Active Bb Courses Reports
    http//www.umbc.edu/blackboard/reports
  • Rubristar for Teachers (rubric maker)
    http//rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

31
Q A
  • Thanks!
  • John Fritz
  • fritz_at_umbc.edu or 410.455.6596
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