I am almost finished with my technology GOAL. I have all of my student’s sound bites from the trial and now I am getting ready to post them to our website. The only thing that I have found to be a problem is that audacity has been very slow. I attribute this to the fact that I have ton of sound clips on one saved file. It seems to stream better when I cut and past the clips into one clip. I am wondering how many different recording programs are out there? I use audacity because I took it from one of the other classes we took and it is free but I would think there might be better programs that allow you to do more and it is my intention to look into it after the school year is done. Other than wondering about recording programs, my plan has worked to perfection so far. I have been able to do what I set out to do and I am now getting ready to watch my student’s blog about other class’s trials.
I have learned that my students are excited about this project and constantly ask me when the podcast will be up so they can blog about it. I also learned that whenever you incorporate audio into a lesson you need to plan to have at least a week for editing purposes. It has taken me more than a week this go around because it is new but in the future I think it will only take a week. Hopefully my student’s enthusiasm will spill over into their trial responses. We’ll see!
I think the only real modification that I need to have in this plan is the time allotment that I have given myself to complete it. Otherwise, it is working very well.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Week 2
Continuing the GAME plan (WEEK 2)
My GOAL this week is to Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility through a lesson that has been ongoing throughout this semester. In order to do this I needed a microphone, audacity, a Smartboard, our class website with a blog and a computer to facilitate our activity from.
Many of you have heard me talk about podcasting a mock trial of Romeo and Juliet. Now what I want to do is take the activity a step further and have students blog under the podcast as to who they thought won or lost. Their responses will have to be thoughtful and respectful. In taking this ACTION, I will allow my students the ability to learn my desired standard for the week which is to Promote Digital Citizenship and Responsibility.
I will MONITER my class’s posts throughout the week to ensure that they are engaging in appropriate dialogue with one another. I will also give rewards to those who report any abuse on our blog by giving students who find abuse extra credit.
My EVALUTION of this plan comes through the quality of responses students give to one another in their podcasting blogging assignment. This assignment is unique in that students need to have their own voices on our website. It brings a human element that is inescapable. It will also require students to engage in healthy discussions and criticisms of their work, and not themselves. By doing this, I hope students make the link between people on the other side of the screen and themselves.
My GOAL this week is to Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility through a lesson that has been ongoing throughout this semester. In order to do this I needed a microphone, audacity, a Smartboard, our class website with a blog and a computer to facilitate our activity from.
Many of you have heard me talk about podcasting a mock trial of Romeo and Juliet. Now what I want to do is take the activity a step further and have students blog under the podcast as to who they thought won or lost. Their responses will have to be thoughtful and respectful. In taking this ACTION, I will allow my students the ability to learn my desired standard for the week which is to Promote Digital Citizenship and Responsibility.
I will MONITER my class’s posts throughout the week to ensure that they are engaging in appropriate dialogue with one another. I will also give rewards to those who report any abuse on our blog by giving students who find abuse extra credit.
My EVALUTION of this plan comes through the quality of responses students give to one another in their podcasting blogging assignment. This assignment is unique in that students need to have their own voices on our website. It brings a human element that is inescapable. It will also require students to engage in healthy discussions and criticisms of their work, and not themselves. By doing this, I hope students make the link between people on the other side of the screen and themselves.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Nets T
One GAME plan I have is to strengthen my ability to Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility. Since I have been a teacher this has been a major concern of mine. I want all of my students to understand how to use technology appropriately and take responsibility for the work that they create. Many times students forget that what they write is a direct reflection of them. Even in a controlled environment, such as our filtered school website, students feel there are no consequences for what they are saying online sometimes. I think with cyber bullying becoming more and more of an issue, my students need to know more than ever that what they say in the digital world has implications in the real world. I would greatly like to demonstrate this to my students and think that a virtual interview with those that have either been victimized by cyber bullying or those that have been caught cyber bullying might be the answers. I would love ides if anyone has some.
My next area of growth for my GAME plan is Digital Age Work and Learning. Demonstrating my fluency can be a challenge because I sometimes don’t have the tools at my disposal that I would like to have to learn more so that I can show my students more. This class is definitely a step in the right direction but some of the ideas we learn here, or technologies, will be outdated in a year so it is important to keep being informed and educated on how to use these new technologies. I have not even seen an Ipad in person yet. I think one way to strengthen my ability to model and have technology to model is to learn how to grant write. I can’t wait for money that is not going to come so it is my job, whether it is fair or not, to go get it for my classroom. Has anyone written a grant for technology before?
My next area of growth for my GAME plan is Digital Age Work and Learning. Demonstrating my fluency can be a challenge because I sometimes don’t have the tools at my disposal that I would like to have to learn more so that I can show my students more. This class is definitely a step in the right direction but some of the ideas we learn here, or technologies, will be outdated in a year so it is important to keep being informed and educated on how to use these new technologies. I have not even seen an Ipad in person yet. I think one way to strengthen my ability to model and have technology to model is to learn how to grant write. I can’t wait for money that is not going to come so it is my job, whether it is fair or not, to go get it for my classroom. Has anyone written a grant for technology before?
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