Chapter 1 starts out talking about blogs which we've had good experience with so far in this grad program. Besides creating this blog, I've also had my students create their own blogs to use as their own reflection pieces (for my Web Tools class). I mentioned this as a comment to someone's forum post, but if I get to teach that class again, I will definitely do things differently. When creating the blogging requirement for class, I did go over the rubric I set up and thought that would be enough. Ha...I was wrong. The lack of quality just floored me as I read over their responses. It was like they were thinking, "Okay, what can I write quickly so I can get this assignment done?" rather than really putting any thought into it...which is really sad considering I gave them CLASS TIME to complete their blog posts. If/when I teach the class again, I will most definitely create a blog myself and model the quality that I'm looking for/requiring in the blog posts. I should assume that they will put in the thought/time I was hoping for.
Sometimes it is difficult for me to think of things that I haven't already stated in the forum posts for this class & previous classes. I almost feel like I am being redundant and saying nearly the same thing. Anyone else feel the same?
With that said, I'm glad that I have this blog set up. It will be OH SO helpful come the end of the year when I have to do my lovely PDP reflection. I will pretty much have my reflection done; I'll just have to review my blog posts & do a bit of summarizing and bada bing...I'll be done in no time! :) That's all for now folks...off to my group meeting! :)
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
Digital Storytelling Week 5
It was nice to see everyone's Prezi last week during class with their top 6 pics. I didn't have a chance to look at the pictures on everyone's Posterous site on a regular basis so it was fun to see what everyone considered to be their best 6 pictures along with an explanation. Just by doing that activity, I feel like I learned so much about my classmates. It would be fun to do this type of activity with my students next time I teach the Web 2.0 class; unfortunately I only had enough students to run 1 section at the beginning of the year but hopefully I'll have many more sign up for the class for next year.
I'm still working on my Pecha Kucha. It is nice having the storytboard as my guide while going through the creation process. It is like my roadmap to my end product; without it, I would probably not have as clear of a picture in mind of what I want my end product to look like. I'm not sure if I'll make another one of these Pecha Kuchas after I'm done with this assignment but I know I got something out of this activity....the storyboard template & really understanding the importance of it when doing any digital storytelling project.
As a side note....I had the amazing opportunity to attend a 2 day workshop in Milwaukee with my 2 principals. The workshop was called the Great Lakes 1:1 Institute. I had 2 days of professional development and listened to some great speakers. The focus of the workshop was for schools with a 1:1 or moving towards that initiative. We are in the process of doing some research to see if that direction is the one we'd like to go towards, and this workshop was a great start in that process. The workshop also had many sessions on 21st Century learning & teaching and technology integration. I went to a few sessions with Naomi Harm on Intel's resources they put out for educators. If you haven't explored this site, I highly recommend taking some time to do so. There are SO many resources (including 100's of rubrics) for project based learning and technology integration assignments. Here's the link to their site.
I'm still working on my Pecha Kucha. It is nice having the storytboard as my guide while going through the creation process. It is like my roadmap to my end product; without it, I would probably not have as clear of a picture in mind of what I want my end product to look like. I'm not sure if I'll make another one of these Pecha Kuchas after I'm done with this assignment but I know I got something out of this activity....the storyboard template & really understanding the importance of it when doing any digital storytelling project.
As a side note....I had the amazing opportunity to attend a 2 day workshop in Milwaukee with my 2 principals. The workshop was called the Great Lakes 1:1 Institute. I had 2 days of professional development and listened to some great speakers. The focus of the workshop was for schools with a 1:1 or moving towards that initiative. We are in the process of doing some research to see if that direction is the one we'd like to go towards, and this workshop was a great start in that process. The workshop also had many sessions on 21st Century learning & teaching and technology integration. I went to a few sessions with Naomi Harm on Intel's resources they put out for educators. If you haven't explored this site, I highly recommend taking some time to do so. There are SO many resources (including 100's of rubrics) for project based learning and technology integration assignments. Here's the link to their site.
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