My action plan is going well, I have started to noticed how much time I am spending on the computer and what I am doing. I have often found myself the last few days tucking away my computer and spending more time offline. Along with that I have started to watch what I post online. Before I would often not hesitate to shout out personal opinions or even tell a person what I honestly thought about them. Now I often think to myself before I post what do I really want to share about myself and about who I am. How do I want to viewed online? Do I want to be viewed in the same way that I wished to be viewed in public. I have realized that often I would just react, instead of thinking things through, because of the safety of being behind the computer screen. Now I have found I stop to ask myself will what I say be constructive to the person?
I don't think I need to modify my action plan but I need to start thinking about how I am going to assess all the new assignment with the integration of technology. I see the making of many rubrics in my future. How would you assess some of these lessons?
A stop motion video about an event that was influential to the students life? Would this be a project based assessment? "Although project-based assessments are especially well suited for formative purposes..." (Cennamo, Ross, & Ertmer, 2008).
Or what about a PowerPoint presentation that is set to music?
I have already thought about rubrics that are holistic in nature, so there is much room for interpretation of the final project. The reason I chose holistic rubrics is, "A holistic rubric may have descriptors that touch on each of these elements (content, grammar, punctuation, writing style, and general designs), but does not break them down into separate rating scales per category." (Cennamo, Ross, & Ertmer, 2008) Does anyone have an example of one they use in your own classroom?
I belong to this website http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ and have found several good examples to start with and that can be adapted with discussion with my students.
There are several new questions that have arisen for me. Like how do I assess students learning digital citizenship? Do I have them come up with some sort of project (of their choosing) and has them answer the question, "What does Digital Citizen mean to you?" as this will be the first year I address digital citizenship with my students, I am unsure of the assessment and the feedback for students.
Courtney,
ReplyDeleteSummer does pose a problem as far as putting your plan in action. If you want to do a test run with students, even though you are not currently teaching, have you thought about asking a local summer program or church if it would be possible for you to test your plan? I have also become more conscious about what I post online. I have never been a massive poster to begin with, but I do think more about what I post in those rare occasions that I do post something. I really like your idea of a stop motion project, would you give your students the freedom to choose every aspect about the project or will you give the students parameters that they must follow? I think with most project based assignments that rubrics are the easiest and best way to assess the project because it provides you and the student’s guidelines for the project, while at the same time leaving room for creativity. Keep up the good work.
Richard,
ReplyDeleteI currently work at the local YMCA and have asked if I could work with students in my care. Due to several things I can not, and the small group of middle school students I did have access to just moved to TX, so it's a little bit of an adventure. I am going to try and work with my sister and a few of her friends. My sister is a sophomore.
With the project they are working on, they have the choice to choose their own moment in time. They would have parameters to work inside of but the project is mostly based on their creativity of the moment.