New Inquiry Question:
How does the use of digital media foster students writing and motivation as they work to create a yearlong timeline of their learning?
My Vision (My Plan):
- I will create templates for each month on Impress that will be shared on each student’s computer.
- I will take pictures/video of students working in the classroom and upload them for students to choose from.
- Students will learn to open a saved file in Impress each lab session.
- Students will learn how to choose photos so they can write about one photo a month and tell what they learned/liked about that lesson.
- Students will learn how to keyboard well enough to tell a story. I will teach how to capitalize letters, how to punctuate sentences and how to spell check.
- I will document my work on my laptop. Entries will include lessons taught as well as problems and successes!
What Help do I Need at October Meeting:
- I need to learn how to use Impress well enough to teach it. I know it is similar to PowerPoint and I have a basic understanding of that.
- Is Impress the best program to use for this work?
- How do I create templates that can be sent to all kids’ computers?
- I don’t know how to download pictures onto our computers (Thin Clients). Hopefully someone is going to show me this week.
- I want to learn how to share movies on Impress so students can have the movies we create in their yearly timeline.
- I need to learn how to podcast so clips can be added to the timeline.
- These timelines will be shared with families-haven’t decided on the format yet.
Problems I may encounter:
- The server is often down. What will I do if I am not able to have the kids do this work because of the server??
Kim, your inquiry question is a wonderful revision. It sounds like you have a lot to do/learn-but what a wonderful thing. Imagine how knowledgeable you're going to come out of this project! YOU'LL be teaching other teachers how to do all of this stuff!-Bailey
Wow! I am impressed by what you know already! Rosemarie
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