Students will create a planner on their computer to help them keep track of their classes and assignments so that they can stay organized. They will each have a copy of the rubric and, as a class, we will discuss all parts of the rubric and what is expected of them. I will check their planner on a daily basis and keep a record of their points.
At the end of a week (or more) students will be able to see what their habits are in class and be able to adjust their habits to be more effective and accomplish more in class.
Application:
The signaling principle, pre-training principle and segmenting principles are being used because the rubric breaks down the assignment into smaller segments that are easy for the students to follow. Discussing the aspects of the rubric follow the pre-training principle to make sure that the students all understand the rubric and what is expected of them. The signaling principle helps by organizing and sorting the information and expectations of the assignment.
Reflection:
I had fun creating all three assignments this week. The rubric and survey will be more useful in my current classroom because the students lessons are already created and already have video, as well as, activities incorporated into them. The rubric and the survey can help me figure out what my students need to be successful, and help my students to stay organized so that they can be more effective in the classroom and accomplish more on a daily basis.
With students in 7th grade through 12th grade in one classroom and each students working on individualized classes, at an individualized pace, collaboration is not something that is usually done in our setting. But one thing that we did as a class on the very first day of school was to create our classroom rules and expectations together. We created it in an outline form but after working with coggle.it I think I would have my students work together as a class to create the rules for the classroom using coogle.it. Students would work together as a class, talking and discussing what they believe would be some good "school rules" to have at our little alternative setting. They would work together to create something that would be used in the classroom throughout the year. Using coggle.it they could even take pictures depicting the rules and add them to their concept map and/or create a video depicting the rules and consequences for not following those rules. (They would enjoy this because it would allow them to break the rules on purpose (within reason) and not get into trouble :) )
Application:
The design principles from week one that align with this type of lesson would be the signaling principle, spatial contiguity and the personalization principle. Coggle.it would help the students organize what they believe are the most important points and rules for the classroom. Adding visual images of the students depicting the rules next to the written words would help students to spatially and visually connect the rules and their behaviors. Since the rules would be written by the students they will be written in a conversational style that the students are sure to understand.
Reflection:
I really enjoyed making this concept map this week. I know this is a little different than the typical concept map and/or how it would be used to help collaboration between students, but it fit with my current classroom and students that I service. I thought it was fun and pretty easy to use. For my links I included the outline that we made as a class at the beginning of the year, as well as the high school's student handbook. I didn't really have a video to put in it and I didn't really want to just add a random video because this is all about our school, so I added a video that some of our high school students made at the school a couple of years ago. I was thinking that I could have my students create some type of video to go along with their concept map and let them work together and have fun. I was thinking that I would even have all of the students put the concept map that they create as their background on the desktop of their computers, that way they always have the classroom rules right in front of them!
First, I would have to say that I would NOT use this type of learning in my classroom. At least not at this time. I am at the HATE relationship stage with this technology. I had so many difficulties with the assignment this week. I have used QR codes before so I wanted to try the Augmented Reality. I have always thought that it looked fun and interesting, but I would need a lot more practice and experience before I incorporated it into my classroom. This may be something that I could have my students work with and maybe they can teach me how to use it better. :) This technology would not work in my current school environment anyways, because a lot of my students do not have cell phones, or smart devices, and we use desktop computers. We do not have access to laptops or tablets that the rest of the school has because we are located in a separate building away from the rest of the school.
Applications:
The design principles of Temporal Continuity and Personalization align with this idea. I can personalize it for the topic/subject the students are working on, or on an individualized level for each student. These principles align with the idea of using Augmented Learning or QR codes as a whole because the students can scan the image and they are led directly to the information that they are assigned and will have several resources available to them at any one time.
Reflection:
I struggled with this assignment all week. I could not figure out how to create overlays and then every time I would try and use the Aurasma App on my phone it either would not scan the image or it would freeze up and crash my phone. :( I was so frustrated because I could not figure out what I was doing wrong and I knew that it should not be this difficult. I did not enjoy this assignment and I honestly don't know if the trigger image even works (since the app on my phone won't work). After stressing over this all week, I realized that I should have just made a QR code assignment, but I was so tired and upset about this not working that I didn't want to go back and try and start over. I just wanted to get this over with. Hopefully this trigger image works, if not, I'm sorry!!
I teach 7th through 12th grade alternative education students but most of them are in high school. The school has really been pushing us to get the students ready for the SAT since they are going to be testing 9th and 10th graders on the PSAT while the 11th graders, and any 12th graders that need to as well, will be taking the SAT in March (1 more month). My students complete all of their daily assignments on the computer and like to take "breaks" and watch videos on sites like YouTube. A lot of my students are not used to "studying" in a traditional sense because their work is done on the computer, it is self-paced, and they do not have homework. I thought this short video would introduce them to some simple study skills that would help them as they prepare to take the PSAT/SAT tests.
I like this video because it meets almost all of the 10 factors to consider when evaluating a podcast and the design principles for multimedia. The content is definitely appropriate for learning about study skills. This video would enhance a lesson on how to study by giving them tips of things to do, and not to do, when studying for test. We can then use these tips, and ideas, for a larger class discussion on studying and what works for them, and what doesn't work, and have them share ideas that have helped them to study for, and do well on, tests in the past. This video meets the standards for acceptable use in our school and is well organized and easy to follow. The audio is clear and easy to understand and I think it would hold my students attention because it is filmed in a high school setting with high school students and is narrated by a high school student. My students are able to use YouTube to view videos on their computer, so formatting of this video is not a problem. As far as credibility, I think every students is different and every student studies differently. This video would be explained as a way to give us some ideas of things we can do to help us study for the SAT. Listening and viewing this video online is the best method for my students because that is what they are used to doing. I did not see any additional online content present in this video, but this video is just one video in a whole series of videos created to help students get better grades. I was able to find this video on several different educational websites and it does not have a license attached to it. Therefore, the YouTube version of the video follows the standard YouTube license.
My video
SAT Study Strategies
Here is the link if the video above doesn't work: https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/e1BC0ywMcbH/sat-study-strategies/#/
Use in the classroom:
I intend to use this for all of my students that have to take the PSAT or the SAT in March. This would be a quick video for them to reference if they are wondering what they should study or how to study for the test. I would then try and incorporate this video making into one of their assignments because I think they would really enjoy it and have fun creating one. If they can successfully create a video about their specific assignment then that would show me that they know how to use the technology. Incorporating creativity will give my students something new and different to do during the day, rather than their usual computer education program that they use everyday and all day. This will allow my students to be creative and show their creativity while still learning things at the same time. I would have to consider how to give my students credit, or a grade, for their creativity because if they are not getting credit for it, or if they know that it is not required in order for them to graduate, they will not complete it!
Application:
I tried to use several design principles for instructional multimedia by using the signaling principle. Keeping the video text simple and creating more of an outline helps not overwhelm the student with information. When considering the redundancy principle I decided to use text and not narration when giving the information to the students. I figured this way they would be able to go back and read material as needed to gather the information. I also used the spatial and temporal contiguity with graphics and text combined per slide throughout the video. This supports creativity because students can see that there are several different way of convey the same information. They will be able to use text or speech when creating their own videos for their assignment.
Reflection:
I loved working on this video this week. I thought that is was really fun and I kept thinking about my students and how much fun they would have creating their own videos like this. I have never created anything like this and didn't know about this technology, so learning this new technology is really exciting for me and I cannot wait to show it to my students and let them try it as well!
