Planning the Content and the Learning Activities

Planning the content and the learning activities

Completed sample LDA 4: Planning the content/learning activities

When developing your online course it is important to be able to communicate specifics related to each lesson and/or activity. This LDA is designed to give you practice in providing details related to lesson(s).

Working through the activity below, use three of the learning objectives/outcomes you sketched out in LDA 3, and devise teaching strategies and potential learning activities for each one.

LDA 4 is a continuation of LDA 3, so please refer to the learning objectives and tasks you sketched out there and insert here as appropriate.

Learning objectives / Teaching strategies / Potential
learning activities / Other notes – as needed
(resources, materials, time)
Learning Objective 1:
Students will be able to effectively develop an agriculture blog news story. / Gain attention:
Teacher will have students conduct an online search for current agriculture news topics and current topics at their institution specifically. / Information and examples:
Students will review information and examples they find from their individual online searches for current topics. / Internet access.
Explain purpose/preview:
Module introduction will explain purpose is to develop an enhanced agriculture blog news entry containing photos. / Attention:
Students’ attention will be held in conducting an interview and writing a rough story draft.
Interest/motivation:
Students will be motivated to learn current news practices, as they will be searching and applying for agricultural communications jobs upon graduation. / Practice:
Students will share their story rough drafts with the teacher and peers.
Remotivate/close:
Reinforce importance of keeping up with current agriculture news topics and importance of developing strong writing skills. / Feedback:
The teacher will review the story draft and provide feedback, as well as facilitating a peer-to-peer review.
Transfer:
Students will conduct interviews and write rough story drafts.
Feedback/remediation:
Teacher will provide story feedback based on rubric.
Learning objectives / Teaching strategies / Potential
learning activities / Other notes – as needed
(resources, materials, time)
Learning Objective 2:
Students will be able to take still photos with a digital camera to visually support blog news stories. / Gain attention:
In-class demonstration of how to edit and upload photos to blogs.
Online materials on how to edit and upload photos to blogs. / Information and examples:
In-class demonstration and online materials. / Internet access.
Explain purpose/preview:
Module introduction will explain purpose is to develop an enhanced agriculture blog news entry containing photos. / Attention:
Students’ attention will be held with demonstration.
Students’ attention will be held in editing and uploading photos.
Interest/motivation:
Students will be motivated to learn current news practices, as they will be searching and applying for agricultural communications jobs upon graduation. / Learning strategies:
Students will check out iPads, take planned photos to support blog news stories, and upload photos to their blog entries.
Remotivate/close:
Teacher will remind students of importance of developing multimedia skills and encourage them to keep practising taking photos and to think visually about stories. / Practice:
Students will select, edit, and upload photos to their blog news stories.
Transfer:
Students will use knowledge from in-class demonstration and online materials to edit and upload their own photos.
Feedback:
Teacher and peers will evaluate blogs with photos.
Final blogs will be posted to online discussion for everyone to review and discuss.
Learning objectives / Teaching strategies / Potential
learning activities / Other notes – as needed
(resources, materials, time)
Learning Objective 3:
Students will be able to use audio recording techniques and effectively use a digital audio recording device to capture interviews. / Gain attention:
Play and link to online sample podcasts associated with agricultural public relations and news stories. / Information and examples:
Online examples of agriculture news podcasts.
Textbook chapter on podcasting. / Feedback/remediation:
Teacher will assist students struggling to record audio and encourage students who have completed the task to move on to setting up interview.
Explain purpose/preview:
Discuss need to develop podcasting skills, since multimedia skills are becoming more necessary in agricultural communication careers. / Attention:
In-class, hands-on demonstration of recording audio with a digital recording device.
Interest/motivation:
Students will be motivated to learn current news practices, as they will be searching and applying for agricultural communications jobs upon graduation. / Practice:
Students will practise recording audio during the in-class presentation or on their own.
Remotivate/close:
Teacher will remind students that podcasting is a growing area for online agriculture communications. / Feedback:
Teacher will provide in-class feedback and suggestions during in-class, hands-on trials.
Transfer:
Students will interview one another and record the audio for practice.
Students will make plans for interviewing someone about an agriculture news topic and post interview plans in discussion thread.
Summarise and review:
Teacher will review the assignment with students to conduct and record audio interviews during demonstration and via BB announcement.