Karen+Young's+Project

=Karen Young's Project Idea - Progress and Information= List your ideas here. Then as you narrow down your final idea(s) you will begin filling out the form below the comment section.


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 * 1 || I would like to set up a wiki page for my class to get infomation about current study topic, assignments and additonal resources available when they need extra help. I have little to no idea how to do this, and need lots of help. PLEASE? ||
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Place your name next to your comment here || **Comments ** || @http://osusbecker.pbworks.com/w/page/8803675/FrontPage ||
 * **Name**
 * Sue Becker || I will make a comment on each and everyone of your ideas. I am hopeful that many of you will also comment on each others work as well. Collaboration is a 21st Century Skill and can be very helpful to everyone! ||
 * Bonnie Wicker || **Karen, I can help you with WIKI. I have gotten much better at using it. We can learn together.** ||
 * Sue Becker || Hi Karen, I have a web site that can help you learn how to set up a PB works wiki. I really like both PB works and Wiki Spaces. Would you like me to connect with you via email or phone to help you get started? I would be happy to help! Looks like Bonnie is willing too. My email is becker.275@osu.edu. WE can set up a time to talk and make an appointment to work together if you like? Here is the web site I have to teach people PB Works.
 * Karen Young || Sue, how do you monitor the discussions? I can't figure it out. Also, do you need to be a member of the wiki? I can add you, I know how. :) Do you want an email invite? ||
 * Kim Ansley || Bonnie, do you use wiki with your students? Does every student have an account? ||
 * Sue Becker || Yes... make me a member if you want too. How I monitor the discussion is by using the recent changes if you are using Wiki spaces. If you are using PB works it is a little different. Do you want to call me tonight and I can help you figure this out? I will be home after 7:30. ||
 * Sue Becker || Karen, do you need me to help you with setting up you wikis? Can you call me so we can talk about this? Wed. After 1:00 I am available to talk on the phone. If you want to do a call in the evening tomorrow.... I can show you how I do this too. I am also available any time on thurs. morning or after 2:30 too. ||
 * Sue Becker || Karen... You have a great project here. Could you visit your page again and answer the questions at the bottom of this page in Red? This would be very helpful. If you have any questions feel free to email or call me. We are hoping that everyone has this done by June 8th. I will watch your responses here and if you need more information... I will let you know later next week. Thanks again... Suebe ||

Place your Final Open Ended Project Proposal Here --

 * __ Project Proposals __** – I have set up a page for everyone. Check out others work as well. We can all learn from what others are doing also.


 * Name: ** Karen Young


 * School: ** Lima West Middle School


 * Grade Level and Class: ** grade 7, language arts


 * Estimated time for development and implementation (if possible): ** I have spent more time in the last two weeks developing this project and learning how to put together a wiki page. I created the page much earlier, but have not been able to figure out what I needed to do to make it available and useable.


 * Project Goal(s) and Objectives: ** The goal for this project is have students reflect back on their school year. They need to create a brochure that highlights the special parts of their school. The brochure will be persuasive in nature as well as informative.


 * Content Objectives: ** Use of technology in communication, writing skills


 * Description of the Project: ** Students will use technology to create a final project, a welcome to our school brochure. This brochure may be given to new and/or prospective students in the future.


 * Considerations **
 * Student Learning Outcomes: Students will write effective paragraphs on given topics. Students will use correct grammar, spelling, and mechanics. Students will also experiment with new technologies including flip cameras and wikispaces pages.


 * Mathematical Content: This currently does not have mathematical considerations, but will give both my students and myself experience to use in future math projects. Once they have the knowledge and experience, I plan to use the wiki for math.


 * Pedagogical Considerations:


 * Technology Chosen and Why: ** I chose the wiki to give students a chance to submit work electronically. The flip cameras were chosen because they are available, reletively simple to use, and compatible with our current computers.


 * Instructional and/or Technical Support You will Request from District Staff: **


 * Implementation Timeline (if appropriate): ** This project should be completed in two weeks.


 * Project Submission Information should be updated as needed. - **

After you have begun to implement your project, please submit revisions here. Use this set of short questions to help guide you in your reporting about your progress. These include:

// How does TPACK play a role in your project or activity? // Technology played a big role in this activity. All student work was completed and submitted using forms of technology. To begin the project, the students needed to learn how to use the wiki site. This created a number of comments from the students about how exicted they were to do this. They also needed to learn to use the Small Wonder cameras in a different way than we had previously used them. In this acitivity they needed to take still photos and then successfully download them from the camera to their electronic brochure. Finally, the daily work was not done on paper, but rather needed to be submitted on the wiki page for credit. Throughout the project, students needed to collaborate with each other either in completing tasks, or in teaching or reminding each other how to complete each task. // What do you need to learn? Or need to know to help to complete the project? // I needed to learn a great deal to do this project. I had used a wiki as a member, but never as a content manager. I still need to learn more about how a wiki works. There are some kinks that don't suit me or my instructional needs. I did find that my students were very receptive to the use of the technology, and even most reluctant learners were able and excited to complete the assignment. // Do you feel you have addressed these topics? // I think I was able to appeal to all levels of technological expertise in my classes. There were some who taught me a few things as well. // How does your project align with your Math objectives? // Since this was not directly linked to a math lesson, I knew that I needed to look at how this could transfer to mathematics. I can see the applications of posting responses to prompts on a wiki site as very beneficial in math. I think it could be a way for individual students and groups to submit their questions and/or understandings of hands on activities we do in class. I like the idea of making a post on the wiki a new form of an exit/entrance ticket. // How can you demonstrate that your learning plan is working? If possible, include artifacts showing results of the project. It would be wonderful if you could take photos and/or video, possible links or other resources to share with other members of this eTech project // I still cannot figure out how to post samples of student work from the project. Sue, is there a way to post word documents so that they can be viewed? As I said before, the level of student engagement was very elevated during this project. I had absolutely no discipline issues during the two weeks that we worked on the project. This included allowing students to travel around the building to capture images for their brochures. That is saying a lot for seventh graders during the last weeks of school. // Why did you choose a particular technology tool? What worked and what did not work? // I chose the wiki and cameras as tools because I wanted to learn how to use them more effectively in my classroom, and I also chose them because they were readily available. The posting of comments worked well once I figured out how to respond to the individual student. I did find out that I needed to stay up with the postings or they could quickly overwhelm me. When they are writing explanations, it is a great way to provide feedback and it lets both the teacher and student know what progress has been made. The email function of the wiki was something that troubles me. I wrongly believed that I could easily see what messages were being sent among students. As tech support told me, I cannot. I worry that the email situation could quickly get out of hand, and that troubles might arise due to that. I am wondering now if transitioning to google docs for submission of daily work or comments would be a better format. I still do not know much of anything about that format, but would like to learn more. Also, I wonder if setting up a voice thread would be practical or doable. This would help differentiate ways to submit ideas and explanations for those who are not as good as writing as they are at talking. My classroom requires that students are always explaining their thinking, so this might be something to look into.
 * TPACK consideration
 * 21st Century skill development
 * Differentiation, digital natives or other course concepts
 * Alignment with Math objectives
 * Transformative evidence of how this may or may not be working
 * Reasoning for your choice of technology