http://education.qld.gov.au/learningplace/onlinelearning/virtual-classroom.html
This website gives the definition of what is a virtual classroom. It is a private online space in Blackboard that teachers can use to support student learning. The teachers and students are able to access this 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through the internet. The virtual classroom could have class activities including group and individual learning activities, discussions and chats with students, quizzes and surveys, homework activities, online courses, forums, and webquests. The organization could include calenders, timetables, important information from the teacher to students and parents, unit overviews, grades, and homepages to students. The only people that can access the virtual classrooms are the students or staff members of the schools or place of work. Using blackboard can help the students reach the website outside of the school hours.
When I was in highschool I used blackboard. This allowed for us to see the assignments, what would be taught the next day in class, and have discussions online as well as in the classroom. Sometimes the conversation in the classroom would not end when the period was over, we could add to the discussion in the virtual classroom later that evening. I think that this was very good. I liked using blackboard as well as having the virtual classroom access in highschool. I wish that we had it in college now.
I think that research should be done to see how many other people use this tool after spending the money and time on it. I think that students and teachers enjoy this feature and would like to use it more in the work field.
3 comments:
Great post! Your article took a different approach than mine did, my more focused on the virtual classroom ad the opportunities that it held for students. I have never used the "black board" technique but when I was doing research about this I read some about it. I am thinking I will goggle it. But my high school had website where the teachers posted class assignments and stuff I wonder if it is the same. From what your article says I think it would be a good thing to use as an outside resource especially for classes that could use extra discussion time.
Carolyn Sullivan
I found the information you had about blackboard to be very interesting. I had never heard of it before, and it sounds like it would be really beneficial to a classroom, especially like you had in high school. I wish we had had that technology in some of my high school classrooms, and even now in college so discussions could be continued when we run out of time. I would like to see research done on this tool being used in the classroom, too, to see if it is beneficial to most students and teachers, or if it should be implemented in more classrooms.
I found what you had to say about your high school experiences interesting. We didn't have that program at my high school but I can see how it could be useful. Although in college we do have discussion boards through angel which are cool for carrying on class discussion.
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