Media Rich Lesson Plan

What is due for the Media Rich Lesson Plan is the following:
The lesson plan you created to integrate technology during your field experience.
A reflection explaining the technology lesson plan you used in the classroom.
If the lesson didn't work why not if it did work why.

WebQuest Project

Creating a webquest will be your final project. The presentation of webquest will be 12-15-08 at 5:00 pm.
Review the Bernie Dodge, WebQuest, view the webquest video and tell us what you think and how WebQuests are being used in the classroom.

"Creative Commons "What is it?"

For this week surf Creative Commons
Explain the following:
What is Creative Commons?
Why is Creative Commons important?
How do you use the Creative Commons Search? Provide an example.



Watch the Creative Commons Video

Digital Storytelling Lesson

Create a section on your blog center around digital storytelling.
Answering the questions may all be weaved into the lesson under #4.
1. Explain what it is, how you would use digital storytelling as a teacher and how you would use it in your classroom.
2. Select 3 websites you would have your students surf to learn about digital storytelling. I have some on the blog but you may Google digital storytelling and/or video for the classroom to see if there are other websites you like better.
3. Select a video download it for students to watch as a good example in understanding digital stories.
4. Set up a lesson you would use in the classroom for students to create their own digital story. Don’t forget about the digital storytelling process, use of images, music, creative commons, format structure, objective, what you read about digital stories etc..

Thoughts Covering Storyboarding

What is a storyboard? It's a place to plan out your digital story in two dimensions.

The first dimension is time: what happens first, next, and last.
The second is of interaction: how does the voiceover (your story) interact with the images, how do visual transitions and effects help tie together the images, how does the voiceover interact with the musical soundtrack?
Any element can interact with any other one, and the storyboard is the place to plan out the impact you intend to make on the audience.

If you're laying out your storyboard and find lines and lines of text under any one picture, rethink your script or your images. Can the script be cut down and the image left to speak the missing words?

If the text remains long, can more than one image illustrate the essential words?
You may also want to use some effects to extend the viewer's interest in a single still image. Don't forget to let the images speak for themselves, and use less words to say the rest.

If you know Power Point, Inspiration, or Word you can make your storyboard on the computer or use the storyboard forms I provided in class. You will also find two copies on the blog. Any of these methods will work. Do whatever is convenient and easy for you.

A storyboard will speed your work in many ways. It will show you where your voiceover should be cut before you record, and it will show you that you have too few or two many images.

With your storyboard and script in hand, it's time to digitize your materials.

For those interested in telling their story as a future teacher take time to view this video: Coming Full Circle this is a letter to a former teacher created by a graduate student at Montclair State University, that outlines the many factors that influenced his decision to enter teaching.

Take time to watch some other examples digital stories for story idea.

The Beginnings of a Digital Story

For Wednesday
1. Have your topic
2. Start your story board with what/how you think your story will be laid out: beginning, middle, ending.
3. Have some research completed about your story.
4. Create a folder on your flash/jump drive to start storing your movie information, content, images, sound, audio, etc...

Digital Storytelling Reading

Please take time to read the different Digital Storytelling websites this will help in creating your own story for the classroom. Think about what you are reading/viewing in how you can use it for the classroom or for student learning. The movie you will be creating will need to be educationally based. We will discuss the criteria more in class.
When you come to class have your topic ready to go.

Digital Storytelling Reading

Take some time to start reading the websites posted under Digital Storytelling Reading. You will be creating a piece on your blog explaining to students what a digital story is, how to use one.
Also, start thinking about the story you may want to create.

Your Classroom Blog

For this week focus on designing your classroom blog as professionally as possible. Keep in mind your students and grade. Load information, websites, video(s), documents, etc... that would be educationally useful for students in the grade you will be doing your field work in. Use this strategy if it helps:

• Role-Teacher


• Audience-Students (grade you will be doing field in)


• Format-Blog


• Topic-Classroom curriculum (social studies, science, core, etc...)

The only 3 items you should keep on your classroom blog for now: A welcome, Halloween web page link, and Professional Development Profile (if you did one on the blog).

Find a You Tube video you would use in the classroom. Keep in mind the grade. Your subject should either be Social Studies or Literature. Write a description and what you want students to do with the video.

Class 9-17-08 Comments

Before next class do the following:
1) Post a comment to two (2) classmates on their blog about the Halloween Web page they created. When you receive a comment respond back to at least one of them.



2)Belcw click on comment and anwer the following:
What do you think about Google Docs?
How would you use Google Docs in the classroom with your curriculum, students, and practice.

Class Tonight 9-15-08

Class goes by way too fast. By Wednesday 9-17-08 have completed the following:
1) A class calendar for the month of October. This calendar should be geared toward the grade, subject, and students you want to teach or are teaching.
It should be full of events, assignments, parent inforamtion ect... Think like a teacher what goes on during the month of October. You can use items you are working on in other classes that you will be using in the field.

2) On google docs write up information about halloween that you would want to share with elementary students. You can use pictures along with text. Here is a websites that may help: History of Halloween
You can write about the information you learned from the video, history of candy, foods,etc...



Don't stress over this assignment, have fun with it, use the website that is posted, and create a document (which we will publish) picking one area to tell about Halloween. The website has several areas you can pick from.

Pick two classmates to share your Halloween document with.

For both classes

Thanks for the participation if anyone needs help with their blogging or if I'm going to fast please let me know.
By next class have the following items completed:
1. Create a New Post welcoming students to your class. What would you post/comment, what do you want students to know about you and your classroom. Also, add a picture that supports what you are posting about or a picture that represents you and/or your classroom.
2. Finish your profile, don't forget to add a picture of yourself or something you want to represent yourself.
3. View the Web 2.0 video and post a comment. Below is the post I created click on the Web 2.0 link, watch the video then post a comment. The comment is right under the Web 2.0 link.

Have fun:)

Web 2.0

Click on the Web 2.0 link, view the video and tell us what did you think?
Web 2.0 link

Second day/night of Class

I thought the class discussion went well. Thanks for all those who participated. Technology is an interesting topic especially with future teachers in what you believe and think.
For my night class we will finish the discussion on Monday.
Don't forget to email me your blog address and make sure you are signed up with Google.

Class Tonight

Paper based How to Create a Blog for the Classroom
I have uploaded your first assignment, Professional Development Profile, take a moment and read the criteria it is better and REPLACES the one you were given in class. I apologize for the confusion but it is all under control. You will find the reading and video under the critieria toward the bottom. Tex, google talk, or email me if you need help or questions answered. I know it was a lot so get with me I love to help.

Technology is changing education in the United States in many ways.
In this course there are several goals. One goal is to help you decide what kind of teacher you want to become and how you plan to use technology in your content. This decision is important; because it can affect how your students learn as well as how hard you will have to work.
Technology has the potential to make you, as a teacher, both more effective and more efficient. It can make you better instructors, but only if you understand technology and how it can influence student learning. Technology use is also tied to teacher professionalism.
Another goal in this course is to provide you with a technology knowledge base that will assist you in making professional decisions about your teaching and student learning.
For your first assignment you will read and view various articles and video pertaining to technology and student learning. You will learn what students want from their teachers and how they want to learn. The students you will be teaching are considered: Millennials, NET Generation, or Technology Natives. As you read you should consider your own set of beliefs regarding how students learn and how you want to teach. What goals you have set for yourself as a future teacher regarding technology, and how you see the integration of technoloyg in your teaching career.

Welcome to Instructional Media

I want to welcome you all to class. This is the place where you will learn to blog, Google, communicate and create. Tonight we will discuss the syllabus and your first assignment: Professional Development Profile. This is where you get to tell me what you believe and why as far as technology, student learning, and teaching are concerned. I look forward to getting to know each and everyone of you.