What I Did This Past Weekend

file:///Users/cehdlabuser/Desktop/What%20I%20did%20this%20weekendRT.mpg

What I Did This Past Weekend

/Users/cehdlabuser/Desktop/What I did this weekendRT.mpg

Final project

http://libraryresources3.pbwiki.com/

Reflections on a on-line role play

After completing the online role play there are some thoughts about how I would want to specifically design my own role play.  I wouldn't want to have more than fifteen or twenty students completing the roll play.  If there is more students than that then some of the quieter students could easily escape from not engaging in the dialogue with the group.  A smaller group forces them to participate in the conversation or at least makes it harder for them to hide amongst their peers.  Also the conversation can quickly move from one thought to the next in a large group.  I would prefer if students were able to discuss one idea in depth before transitioning from one idea to the next.  

In designing discuss sessions as a teacher, I would want to create topics of high interest initially in order to stimulate discussion and demonstrate to the students how the roll-play could heighten their learning experience.  I would then intermix more challenging and topics that aren't high interest to show them challenging and difficult problems people deal with throughout their adult life.

Using a Pbwiki

In theory, I believe a Pbwiki is or would be fairly easy to use.  I had a tough time saving my changes for pages linked to the main page.  It seems like a pretty quick process to try and save changes and link them up.  I'm not sure why I was having problems.  

The Pbwiki seems quite similar to a web page program, Frontpage that I had maintained about eight years ago.  It was quick and easy to create and link up pages from one to the next.  

I would use Pbwiki to use as a information link to students and parents for homework assignments, link to educational resources and calendar for upcoming activities.

E-Portfolio Reflection

My method of using technology to enhance student learning was done through PowerPoint presentations, creating simple Web Pages and use video editing tools.  The utilization of videos and doing video editing was really hampered by hardware challenges with subpar processors and hard drive space.  Some of my principals engrained in me to use black and white slides with limited changes in font and little to know colors.  Their thought was that anything too flashy would be distracting to the students and not help you get your true message across.  

When creating new PowerPoint presentations that were too the point and not too wordy and incorporating pictures to really illustrate the concepts discussed, I notice a remarkable interest in what I was teaching.  Students asked many more questions than when I used my old bland PowerPoint presentations.  I even got positive feedback from students about the format of these new presentations from students that usually don't give feedback.

As far as using a portfolio or reflection piece for students to evaluate their work, I would want to guide them to look at what they have published as writers and see if their work has accomplished to goals they had in mind.  I would want them to utilize peer comments to help enhance their published work.

Use of Rubric

Standards	Incomplete (0)	Not yet proficient (1)	Partially Proficient (2)	Proficient (3)	Exemplary (4)
Writing Process	Challenging to understand the main idea, there are lots of errors in regards to spelling and grammar	There is a lot of errors, but the main idea is distinguishable	Easy to understand with some errors	Clear, concise, and basically well written; still with a few errors	Clear, concise, and well written, and edited with no serious errors
Content	Information is incomplete or not correct. The blog page does not have a clear purpose or central theme	Information is not always clear or correct.  The theme or main idea of the Web page is more or less clear, but does not relate to the purpose or theme of the project	Information is clear and correct.  The theme or main idea of the blog is more or less clear and related to the purpose or theme of the project	The content has accurate and useful information.  The theme or main idea of the blog is clear and related to the purpose or theme of the project.	The theme or main idea of the blog is clear, and pages link to related information.  The content has accurate and very useful information.  The theme or main idea is very clear.  The blog pages link to quality information.
Layout	There is no structure or organization	Title or subtitles not bolded and challenging to distinguish between topics	Uses headings’ sections labeled some formatting	Organized and consistent; good formatting	Appearance of the page looks professional
Development of work	Written sheet submitted to teacher	Text for page entered into simple word processor and edited	Draft page is submitted and text for entries relates to original plan	Evidence of revision of page; text relates very closely to original plan	A reflection of development process is given to the teacher
Comments	Creates comments to others blogs that don’t relate to their entries	Creates comments that relate to peers’ entries	Comments about peers’ entries are related to their topics, and give feedback that summarizes the authors entry	Comments about peers’ entry is information that can be used to help them add more information to their post	Comments about peers’ entry is information that can be used to help them add more information to their post, and author uses comments to add more detail by reposting an entry