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What a great week to jump back into Potcert!\u00a0 I laughed when I read, “\u2026design and development of online activities requires real fore-thought and investment of time<\/strong>\u2026”* I added a note to my eText “does it ever!!<\/strong>”\u00a0 Adapting a course for online delivery is just what I’ve attempted to do in my spare time (procrastinating) for the last year.
\n*Ko, Susan; Rossen, Steve (2010-03-03). Teaching Online: A Practical Guide, Third Edition (p. 60). Taylor & Francis. Kindle Edition<\/em>.<\/small><\/p>\n

Early in 2010 I took “Course Planning” (delivered online) as part of my Certificate in Adult Education.\u00a0\u00a0 At that same time, a native speaker and I were facilitating a small weekly evening class for teachers wanting to learn the T\u0142\u0131\u0328cho\u0328 (Aboriginal) Language of our community.\u00a0 We also had a U of Winnipeg grad student join us on Skype.\u00a0 It was the perfect symbiosis; my experience facilitating the evening class fed into designing a language acquisition course for my “Course Planning” assignment, while my studies in course planning helped improve the design of my evening class.\u00a0 As I viewed Lisa’s\u00a0 Where Do I Start<\/a> I kept thinking that I had followed very similar steps in “Course Planning” only with a F2F setting in view.<\/p>\n

Jim Groom opened ds106 to the world in late December 2010, and totally sold me on his “domain-of-your-own” doctrine.\u00a0 In 1985, Philadelphia<\/a> taught the world that if you have a bomb, you will find a use for it.\u00a0 In 2011 I learned that if your hosting service offers “one click” Moodle you just ache to load it with content.\u00a0\u00a0 My “Speak T\u0142\u0131\u0328cho\u0328<\/a> ” course seemed the perfect candidate to populate my shiny new Moodle installation on Bluehost.\u00a0 At first I thought it would just be a matter of importing instructions from my Word documents.\u00a0 My course was\u00a0 laid out around experiences and encounters outside the classroom and did not contain vocabulary lessons.\u00a0 Although I found the presentations below later on, the principles resonated with my views on language acquisition.<\/p>\n

Patrick Dunn<\/a> and Cathy Moore<\/a> emphasize “Experience, not Content<\/strong>” as the approach to instructional design.\u00a0 At 7:30 in this video Patrick says “we learn nothing from content.”<\/p>\n