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The fourth @One Quality Principle of Online Teaching states that in the connected era, students will be most successful after college if they have a digital presence that promotes their unique abilities and strengths. Online instructors are poised to play a powerful role in the development of our students’ digital footprint. Students aspire to be like their instructors who actively model safe and professional use of digital tools and resources. Effective online teachers understand that engaging students in the web is an important part of becoming digitally literate and, as such, learning is not tied to a textbook.
This principle emphasizes:
• Developing one’s own professional digital presence;
• Using and remixing digital Open Educational Resources (OER) to facilitate active learning;
• Establishing a learning culture that promotes curiosity and critical examination of online resources while fostering digital literacy and media fluency;
• Providing opportunities for students to create content that can be shared outside of a learning management system;
•Fostering a learning environment that encourages students to connect with and learn from a global audience.
Artifacts
Artifacts
Teaching in an age where technology drives instruction, having a solid digital literacy background is necessary in order to further explore new concepts. As an instructor, providing students with guidelines on how their online presence can be created is key to ensure their privacy is safe. Sharing my own initial steps in building my digital presence will help students notice how to properly approach media without abusing it. Fostering an online learning environment that allows for media exploration will serve as a stepping stone for students to seek outside resources that can help with their learning. These are the key points of principle 4.
This artifact is part of my netiquette section on my syllabus. Letting students know the about the importance of communicating effectively is essential in an online course to nurture respect and healthy collaboration. This artifact addresses criteria 3 and 5. These are measured by promoting an online learning culture that allows students to grow by connecting with others peers with similar interests and learning about others. Having the knowledge on how to approach a discussion will allow interaction and sharing of ideas that might lead to deeper thinking and acquisition of new knowledge through the sharing of resources and personal experiences.
Principle 4 besides encouraging students to build their digital presence it also asks the instructor to do the same. The artifact that reflects criterion one of this standard is my own YouTube channel. As part of my humanizing @one course I was assigned to find a host for my course videos. By doing so, it has allowed me to start creating personalized digital content that can be used to teach or introduce specific course content. As a result, my digital presence has started to evolve and hopefully increase to other platforms to model for students how to use media to their advantage.
In this last artifact, students are assigned into a group to select one topic from the given list and create a visual presentation. Principle 4 is met with this artifact because it allows students to work outside of Canvas and gather information about their selected topic by exploring the internet and other resources available thus, resulting in the development if their digital literacy skills.
Reflection
Reflection
Before starting courses:
Ethics is something that I teach and model for students on a daily basis. Students learn best by example and application. The face-to-face structure that I provide for students calls for respect of each other.
My growth after taking courses:
A completely new concept for me was having the option of not using a physical textbook. This is an issue for my students since many struggle purchasing textbooks. Learning about OER really helped me understand its purpose and how students can save money and not prevent them form taking a class. The most important information I learned was to model proper media usage to teach students how important privacy and sharing information with others online is. As a result, my digital literacy increased by trying out online media that I was skeptical about- creating videos.
How I plan to continue growing?
Growing my personal digital presence is an area I need to develop more. I was pushed to surface online sources that I had no idea existed which increased my teacher tool box. I plan to learn more by attending workshops on how to use media in an online learning format. This will also help me plan learning activities for students that will allow them to use different media outside of the classroom setting.
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