Student Presentations and Rubric
Covered a number of useful internet sites, including awesomefreeclipart, trackstar and rubricstar.org. Useful discussion that kids when working first time with computer will tend to overuse all the bells and whistles. Animations and music ahbou!!
Major demo was creating a rubric on line. As was referring to another document, really didn't see point of the rubric (at the beginning). Search for 1087332 on rubricstar.
Tried keeping notes, but lost it in the middle. Grrr.
The student presentations were of course wonderful. The one on the triangles was especially good. Given my experience with computers though, I wonder how long that took to make. We had what, 5 minutes of video? I can easily see that taking 10 hours to render. My initial reaction is quickly becoming one of complete overload. As a first year teacher, I have to come up with complete lesson plans for 5 preps (6 if I'm working Alum Rock, and hours of presentation materials, correct work, assess students, differentiate instruction, and, and, and....... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! (POP!!! as my head explodes....)
What would be nice is a one stop program for teachers where you put together your lesson plan, supporting "media", worksheets, assessments, notes... THe notes section under PowerPoint is a step in the right direction. But due to problems with portability of powerpoint, I don't feel it is complete enough. No real place for work sheets. Don't know where I'll be student teaching next semester, so no way to prepare.
The other thing I got was the amount of material out there to help teachers put stuff online to let little Johnny's parents know why Johnny isn't doing too well. On line rubrics are also helpful. See, this is what we were looking for, here's Johnny's project. Can you see why his scoring was not A+ material? But this of course leaves all the poor folks in the dust..... They won't have computers and internet access. Grr.... It keeps coming back to a resources issue, which isn't the focus of the class.. Got to get that email out to Jan Grodeon's office. Anyway, its nice that the stuff is out there and free.
posted by Tom Saidak | 8:53 PM
1 Comments:
Your comment about the portability of powerpoint struck a chord. You can get for free powerpoint players for both Mac and PC to allow viewing of your presentation. You need to burn a cd with both players on it in a 9660 ISO format (both platforms will be able to read this). You can also save your ppt as a pdf as well for handing out or posting to a website.
Creating the movies that you saw were mostly done by students as part of their class, using iMovie or MovieWorks. Yes, there is a teaching module that needs to be done first, but, as with your projects for me, the completion of the movies is the students' responsibilities.
Sharon
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