Hi JoAnna and Shannon, Great work with the OER. Like I posted on the site, your pages were informative and engaging. The biggest plus was the resource list; I have been looking for something as simple and straightforward as that for some time now. I will definitely be exploring some of the other technology throughout the MET. As I was working my way through the OER, and came to understand the reality of the relationships between attention span and technology, I was asking myself to what degree teachers should be adopting technology that would seem to enable students to learn without the need for some kind of focused attention. I know that most teachers blend a variety of strategies into their practice, but I thought it would be useful to open up a discussion on the ethics of this sort of tech in terms of actively shaping emerging learners, and not catering to them.

Thank you JoAnna and Shannon for a wonderful OER on micro learning. I found that it was a fantastic balance between content and activity. What I enjoyed the most was that you used micro learning so well within the context of your micro learning presentation. It was convenient being able to leave and come back at different times, and have each section be a manageable time allowance. Something I didn’t realize before going through your website, is how much I use micro learning on a daily basis, without even noticing it. I enjoyed the extensive list of resource at the end- it’s nice to have the option to research further and figure out how to use it in our own instructional context. The only problem I found, like others, was the link missing from the driving test activity picture, however the link was found under. Other than that, fantastic website. Thank you for a fun filled week of learning.

Joanna and Shannon, I really enjoyed your OER. Not only does it contain well-thought out (and appropriately – micro-length) activities, but also, engaging assessments to determine knowledge acquisition. (Full confession -- I had to take my driver’s test twice! First time 13/20 and second time 20/20 – I’m a fast learner!) Interestingly, it occurred to me that in the last couple of years,I’ve put many micro-learning learning resources together – videoscribe or ppt or prezi, etc.. And it’s through this realization that my initially skeptical view of micro learning shifted. By extension, it’s not just younger students who have a diminishing attention span – I think all people connected to the digital world experience this. However, Micro Learning is a great strategy to adapt to the new world of 24/7 information. Technical issues on your site were minor – one on the initial survey would not take my response so I had to exit and retry a couple times, then worked fine. Finally, big take away from this for me is that micro-learning (in an educational context) offers twofold significance: consumption is the obvious one, but creation is equally as important. Thanks both! Great OER.

Hello JoAnna and Sharon, I really liked your OER and I think it is itself a good example of microlearning. I like the activities and the videos provided. I especially liked your comment section in the application page. Which software did you use? Lastly, thank you very much for a very comprehensive list of resources. I would like to add that if anybody is interested in podcasting, you can check the website that we have done last semester here: http://etec532podcasts.weebly.com/tools.html

Well done, JoAnna and Shannon! I really appreciate the learning journey your site provided and as others have mentioned, the Resource Page is fabulous. I also really value when other people share their success stories using technologies, especially when there are so many to choose from. Who has time to try them all, right? The criteria I typically have is ease of use and a good number of options. I wonder if a survey of common technologies used to create lessons could be drafted for your website? That would give folks an idea of where to start their own learning journey. The microlearning activities you chose were a nice selection, IMO. It opened my eyes a bit to different ways microlearning can be implemented. And let's be honest... who didn't want to see if they would pass a Driver's Test. (I did not, btw, haha!) I will definitely bookmark your site for future reference. Cheers, Dana

Great OER presentation JoAnna and Shannon. It had a wide variety of presentation methods and it was great you kept to the theme with Micro Learning activities while presenting Micro Learning. I've had a great experience with a lot of the resources you've provided, such as Canva, Camtasia and Weebly. Although I'm a young teacher, it seems to me that attention span of students seem to be shortened and Micro Learning is a great tool to use as a strategy to combat the challenge. The only thing I would suggest is a change in format for submitting our group collaboration as the comments section isn't incredibly intuitive for sharing files or formats. Otherwise the Weebly was clean and well-formatted. Generally, when I open a website with a lot of content and I see a lot of visuals and buttons etc. it can be overwhelming. Therefore, I appreciate the buttons on the bottom right being a continuation of the website and it made it easy to navigate from start to finish.

JoAnna and Shannon, Thank you so much for presenting such an engaging OER on microlearning. I have completed it fully and am coming away from it feeling more empowered as an educator. Even while moving through it, I found my mind spinning with possibilities to use microlearning effectively in my own instructional context. As well, I appreciate the extensive list of resources near the end - thank you for doing the research for me! As Brain stated, you ingeniously incorporated microlearning into your OER and navigation throughout was easy and mainly seamless. {One link that may be missing is the image link for the Driving Test activity. The link is posted below the image, but the image is not actually linked.} Thank you again for sharing all your hard work with us this week! ~ Jessica

Great OER you two! I think it was the perfect balance of content and activity. What I like most is that you utilized microlearning so well within the context of a microlearning presentation. One thing I realized as I was going though your site was that I actually use Microlearning on a regular basis, I just didn’t know it. What is cool is now that I am aware of it I know where I can tweak things to make the application of this teaching method more effective. This is not a big deal when it comes to making changes to your site, but one thing that confused me for a bit was the “WHAT IS DISTRACTED DRIVING” activity. It says “Click on the image on the right. THEN list as many distracting driving factors you can find in this video.” The only problem was, it was not a video just a picture. It took me a bit to figure that out (tried clicking different things). Just changing that like to “list as many distracting driving factors you can find in this picture” would do the job. That is unless it was supposed to be a video, then my feedback is that the video is not working. Brian

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