Friday, July 30, 2010
Sharing on an action research project
The ideal of a learning community is to keep a constant communication process that will give feedback on each project that the community is developing. Parents perceive that the all-school gatherings have a positive impact on their children. This action research project will definitely have greater benefit as many stakeholders are constantly informed of the process of the project. The most parents and students are informed of the process of this project, better will be quality of the findings on Google Analytics.
This action research will include podcasting to keep our learning community updated on the process and findings of the project. Students want and yearn for community. This is a valuable principle to develop any action research project because students are always motivated by internet based tools that allow them to interact with their community. Therefore, Google Analyst will have enough data to develop a readable map of interests and performance of our community on the website. This is will give enough data to be analyzed and answer with more services that will answer the needs of our learning community on the website
This action research will include podcasting to keep our learning community updated on the process and findings of the project. Students want and yearn for community. This is a valuable principle to develop any action research project because students are always motivated by internet based tools that allow them to interact with their community. Therefore, Google Analyst will have enough data to develop a readable map of interests and performance of our community on the website. This is will give enough data to be analyzed and answer with more services that will answer the needs of our learning community on the website
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Reflect on what you learned from watching and listening to Dr. Lewis.
Best practices are one the basic component of instruction that educators should not overlook at any time. Texas Educational Agency has set a Learning System that includes best practices at core of its mission. These best practices include teaching using current research based content. Therefore, Galena ISD is enhancing the research component of best practices while developing the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation Grant.
Reflection on what you learned from watching and listening to Dr. Timothy Chargois
The Beaumont ISD has been developing different research projects, and this applies perfectly in the field of action research because research should be developed by the people that are in charge of the field, people that is involved in the day-to-day of the process of education. Scholars from higher education entities have tools to enhance the process of school teachers in order to make research more formal and authentic, but the idea of solving problems and answering questions in a systematic action research is the most reliable way to be up-to-day on educational matters.
Additionally, there was another topic that attracted my attention from Dr. Chargois presentation. The project that is coming up on how to read ethical situations related to effective and ineffective teachers. This seems a fantastic field to explore. There are many questions on ethics and education. Usually we care about what is legal, but we should stop and think that not all that is legal is necessarily ethically correct. Ethics is a field that implicit to any human action, and we must take responsibility on this regard in every step of our educational career.
Additionally, there was another topic that attracted my attention from Dr. Chargois presentation. The project that is coming up on how to read ethical situations related to effective and ineffective teachers. This seems a fantastic field to explore. There are many questions on ethics and education. Usually we care about what is legal, but we should stop and think that not all that is legal is necessarily ethically correct. Ethics is a field that implicit to any human action, and we must take responsibility on this regard in every step of our educational career.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
EDLD 5301 Research
My research question: Google Analytics: How to track website activity, and why is this important to enhance the visitor experience to educational websites?
Schools in America are moving through the web. This has been a process that involves fast changes in technology that the new school has to adopt in order to be competitive in the new world. This is a world that demands for informed institutions that are willing to enhance costumers’ experiences when they visit their web sites. Therefore, schools, teachers, and school districts’ web sites need to track their visitors in order to analyze points of interest of their costumers, establish behavior patterns in their costumers’ searches, and compare costumer interest with the web site objectives. The final goal is to use data to rethink web products and, therefore, improve web site effectiveness.
Now, formal research process is not about understanding the problem but about asking the right questions to understand the problem. In other words, it is a problem solving based on problem understanding (Harris, S. Edmonson and Comb, 2009). Therefore, the main purpose of my quest will be to find what is the value that can be added to a web site by tracking visitors’ behavior, and how this data can be useful to enhance the services for the learning community.
Reference:
Harris, S. Ed monsoon, S., & Combs, J. (2009). Examining what we do to improve our schools: 9 steps from analysis to action. Larchmont, N.Y.: Eye on Education. pp.16
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Schools in America are moving through the web. This has been a process that involves fast changes in technology that the new school has to adopt in order to be competitive in the new world. This is a world that demands for informed institutions that are willing to enhance costumers’ experiences when they visit their web sites. Therefore, schools, teachers, and school districts’ web sites need to track their visitors in order to analyze points of interest of their costumers, establish behavior patterns in their costumers’ searches, and compare costumer interest with the web site objectives. The final goal is to use data to rethink web products and, therefore, improve web site effectiveness.
Now, formal research process is not about understanding the problem but about asking the right questions to understand the problem. In other words, it is a problem solving based on problem understanding (Harris, S. Edmonson and Comb, 2009). Therefore, the main purpose of my quest will be to find what is the value that can be added to a web site by tracking visitors’ behavior, and how this data can be useful to enhance the services for the learning community.
Reference:
Harris, S. Ed monsoon, S., & Combs, J. (2009). Examining what we do to improve our schools: 9 steps from analysis to action. Larchmont, N.Y.: Eye on Education. pp.16
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