evaluation of our presentation

a bit late, but…

Last week we held our presentation / groupwork about LMS and LCMS systems.

We started up with short definitions of LMS and LCMS via power point. After that we compared a real classroom and its learning setting with these more or less complex systems in general also via power point. The idea was to present a situation, which could make transparent, why such technology might be interesting to use for a teacher. Starting with the needs of the educational setting we wanted to present then the implementations, which could be used to support the organisational work the participants face in the specific learning setting. There had been some discussion about open source and free software in between when we introduced stine, blackboard, commsy and moodle.

After this short introduction we started the prepared group work (see power point) in three splitted groups, which should compare the systems later. After the whole presentation we discussed wether the timeframe was extended too much because of presenting three different systems in this group work.

The evaluation after it was more or less not going into deepth as i thought befor. To short time and maybe it would be better to use two or more seperated blocks for such an idea to go in the direction of developing quality standards with all participants. But there i listed while the discussion took place all the comments made about the different systems (the aim of developing quality standards was quitted in the first steps because of time):

commsy

+ pretty easy and logical
+ made up columns good
– to write a mail you have to do too many steps
– possibility for misusing (wrong name / account possible)
+ easy to get tasks done

moodle

– took a little while to start
+ tasks were ok to manage
– feature to use blog but noone use it, does not seem personal, just technical

blackboard

– does not went that easy, did not manage tasks done
– possible to send mail, but first to search user and to create mail account
– no outside mailaccount possible to use
– buttons were not easy to find
+ many possibilities
+ helpful to see what students do and not do
+ / – depends on the role you have to see specific content

The conclusion of the whole project for me is that a prepared presentation is even better if you tested it once befor, but that i feel allready firm enough to be flexible in coorporating groups and that for people who get confronted with a content first time it takes also a while to „digest“ and that less content in more time is sometimes helping. On the other side it went good and i guess people had some impression afterwards, what might be real problems people face using technologies in their educational work. Therefor it was good to start a group work, but this extended the timeframe also a bit too much. All in all another step in the field of e-learning.

See you in around a week then and please add some more content at the evaluation of our project at the wiki quality standards page or as just as a comment to this post if you feel like and if you find time 😉