Jan+Sanfort's+Project

=Jan Sanfort'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.


 * || Ideas for your Math/Technology Open ended Project .................................................................................................................................................................. ||
 * 1 || Using the iPad/iMOvie app to document a 3 mos. grant process in order to share with parents and the school board (since they aren't with us during the process.) ||
 * 2 || Using VoiceThread to compete a student-posted poetry book on the first year of middle school. We have been writing poetry all year in the style of Swimming Upstream by Kristine O'Connell George ||
 * 3 || I would really like to make a Wiki page for next year as I will be changing grade levels and can focus the Wiki page on the Common Core standards for one grade level. This will be a new ||


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Place your name next to your comment here || **Comments ** || Could you visit your page again and post a little more information in questions at the bottom of this page? 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 ||
 * 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! ||
 * Jan || Sue, we are excited about working on our iMovie during the next two weeks. We plan to show snippets of it to the school board, and play the whole thing for parents at the beginning of next school year, as this grant will not be completed until late fall. In addition, it could bring new students up to speed on the process that we have gone through and make the final product more meaningful to those students. What do you think? Students have been working hard on their mini-segments and it is a learning process for all of us. ||
 * Sue Becker || I am very excited about this project. Sounds like you are getting the students to work on this and they will be fun! If you can get this to a point where I could see a snippet... I would love to see it.
 * Jan || Sue, I will try to send you a sample of parts of the imovie which I am trying to "knit" together. It will go to your email. They have had a blast making their little mini-movies with the iPad. I have really enjoyed using it in class in small groups....and now that I received a projector through the grant, I am excited about doing a lot more with it next year, as well as getting the Doceri down pat. That is my summer project, after the iMovie is completed. =) ||

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:Jan Sanford **


 * School: Liberty Arts Magnet **


 * Grade Level and Class: 6th Grade Math **


 * Estimated time for development and implementation (if possible): Documentation has been ongoing since kick-off on Pi Day and this section will be completed by the end of school (May 25) **


 * Project Goal(s) and Objectives: Students will complete a documentary based on their experiences during a grant process. This documentary will be shown to the school board in order for students to showcase their work through the grant process, and shown to parents in Fall Open House in order to inform them in a visual way of what students have experienced previous to the final sculpture project. **


 * Content Objectives: **
 * Math: To become familiar with pi, circumference, ratios and proportions, scale. 2-D/3-D . **
 * Technology: calculators, iPad/iMovie familiarity. **
 * Other content incorporated includes art concepts, social studies/history, science, language arts. **


 * Description of the Project: A grant was approved based upon the integration of pi and other math content into other areas (art, social studies, science). Students began with pi-based experiences, ratios and proportions, and related that to the real world through field trips (Bicycle Museum of America), speakers who focused on bicycle-related matters (gears, GOBA, Olympics, types of bicycles,etc.), and an artist who will fabricate our final 2-D to 3-D sculpture project. Students used proportions to make a maquette of a sculpture which was a culmination of their grant experiences. This juried maquette process will be fabricated by a local sculpture and displayed onsite at our school in the fall. If we are able to make an outdoor sculpture (still pending approval), students will need to petition the city council for permission to install a permanent fixture. Students have documented and written short clips of sections of the process, and the iMovie will be our documentation of our process. **


 * Considerations **
 * Student Learning Outcomes: at least 80% of students will pass a ProOhio 2-D/3-D indicator 16 test composed of 8 questions. This was part of a TBT process within our 6th grade team.

> percents to represent problem situations > and determine the reasonableness of > solutions. > finding circumference and area of circles > proportional relationships; e.g., model > similar figures with a 1 to 2 relationship > by sketching two of the same figure, one > with corresponding sides twice the length > of the other.
 * Mathematical Content:
 * Use proportional reasoning, ratios and
 * Use strategies to develop formulas for
 * Draw similar figures that model


 * Pedagogical Considerations: **In the iMovie, students are taking charge of their learning by choosing which segments they want to "produce" and making decisions in how best to convey their knowledge. By having students be in charge of their own production segment, engagement is heightened and students are more motivated to do well. By using this opportunity to "teach" the school board and parents what we've learned, students will become more adept at the math concepts which are embedded in the project (learners learn more when they teach it to someone else). When students have more ownership in an authentic learning experience, they gain more understanding of the concepts within.**


 * Technology Chosen and Why: iPad/iMovie: to make the grant experience accessible to parents and others even though they couldn't be here with us as we worked through the different aspects of the activities and learning opportunities. A good opportunity for students to document their progress through the grant in a coherent, communicative fashion. By reviewing activities, concepts, and experiences through the technology, plus the decision-making skills needed to choose ways to visualize their learning, students will have more ownership of their learning experience. **


 * Instructional and/or Technical Support You will Request from District Staff: None **


 * Implementation Timeline (if appropriate): March 14 through May 25th...that's the goal. **


 * 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? // ===I used the iPad to create an open-ended project which enables each group of two students to produce their own version of their content learning from our grant. I think I've successfully incorporated technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge in this one project...I know students were very excited to be able to choose their own way to show their knowledge using the iPad for an authentic purpose (to show the school board and also to show parents in the fall at the conclusion of the grant.)===
 * TPACK consideration

21st Century skill development // What do you need to learn? Or need to know to help to complete the project? // === Since the iMovie app does not come with a tutorial and tutorials must either be accessed online or you need someone to tell you how to do it, it has been a slow process for me to figure it out....especially since I am trying to combine videos from several different apps and from my iPhone. If I were better at this initially, it wouldn't take so long. So I guess realizing that there is a learning curve with this is the main thing, since I am not a digital native. === // Do you feel you have addressed these topics? // === Yes, I feel that the freedom to create their own video segments has encouraged and supported differentiation. Students had to make decisions based on content and their different abilities in order to produce their own segments. They were very sure of how they wanted to proceed and how they wanted to incorporate their learning. I think the obvious difference between students as digital natives and myself as a digital immigrant is that they are not afraid to just start in, where I am hesitant to begin something without knowing exactly where I am going. I am trying to be more receptive to the technology and just see what happens. I think teachers have a need to be "in control" so this ever-changing digital technology thing is quite a departure from the norm....not necessarily a bad thing, just different, so we need to be more adventurous.===
 * Differentiation, digital natives or other course concepts

// How does your project align with your Math objectives? //
 * Alignment with Math objectives
 * I think it aligns very well. Since the project incorporated learning objectives which were part of a grant, I had to make sure that students were able to do what I proposed during the grant process. Since I had the requirement to "produce" for two separate entities (OSU and Hundred Steps), I made sure that the video snippets/iMovie as well as the other grant-related artifacts showcased the math objectives which were proposed. **

// 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 // // Why did you choose a particular technology tool? What worked and what did not work? // ==** The iPad was given to us as part of the grant earlier in the year, and I have become fascinated with it. It was the perfect tool for all of us to use to document our learning. The hardest part was taping each small group...there were almost 20 small groups in the two classes, and it was very difficult to video the small groups and still keep the rest of the class organized in a productive manner. I had several projects going at the end of the year, and I think the time factor was the most difficult....to get all the taping in before the end of the year, keep the others busy doing something productive, and still do all my normal grading, grade cards, field trips, etc. ...and move my classroom to another area of the building. Way too stressf ****ul.** I loved being able to project our finished segments to the class as we finished taping so we could critique and enjoy the segments together. That was very successful and students were totally engaged in watching each other "perform".==
 * Transformative evidence of how this may or may not be working
 * I will be sending snippets to Sue, and Hae-Jin has seen parts of the segments as well when she came to videotape. **
 * Reasoning for your choice of technology