After watching either the Digital Storytelling Video, Blogging, Oral Fluency or Webquesting Video, state which best practice would have the most impact in your class and that you could see yourself implementing. Explain your answer.
Also, explain what resources you would need to implement this lesson effectively)
(If you already use one of these techniques, please explain the lesson and why you believe it's effective)
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The best practice out of the choices Digital Story Telling and Web questing for me would be web questing. I have used this tool in the past. The best experience and implementation for me was the unit that I designed and piloted for the new Humanities curriculum. (Unit 3)
ReplyDeleteI found that the webquest allowed for students to work independently from the teacher and feel successful while still allowing for the teacher to support the student through the frameworks they set up and the guidance that they give in the links etc.
I use webquests to supplement the 6th grade History Alive! curriculum. The book is great, but it leaves out quite a bit of information about some really cool stuff (mummification process, ancient Egyptian gods and godesses, etc.). I have used these "guides" to allow students to monitor their own learning and reflect on how it relates to and enhances the curriculum. The kids really like them if you give them good websites to "quest."
ReplyDeleteI'd wondered for a while what a webquest was, and the video showed me that it wasn't nearly as complicated as I was envisioning.
ReplyDeleteIt would not be difficult for me to encorperate a web-quest in my sixth grade curriculum. They need to start deveolping internet research skills, and I could use a webquest to not only show them how to fact-find, but to also have them questioning the veracity of the material they're being presented. The challenge would be finding technology related content that isn't too far out of the students' comfort zone.
I think I would have enjoyed incorporating digital storytelling into my class when I was teaching math and/or science. It would likely have been a shorter and less complicated digital story than the one depicted, but I can envision students doing short videos that explain concepts like Newton's Laws or visually depict a mathematical concept like the Associative or Distributive Property. Alternatively, I might use digital storytelling to create time lines and visual representations of the discoveries of important mathematicians and/or scientists.
ReplyDeleteI imagine the process would have a lasting impact on the students and improve their ability to remember the material.
If I were to use digital storytelling, I would appreciate having some tips regarding the use of iMovie, info to help with the incorporation of music, a copy of the grid used for storyboarding, and some info on the "bumps in the road" and how they were solved.
I really enjoyed the Webquest video and I will most likely use one this year.
ReplyDeleteI had been to Webquest.org and I did find some helpful information, however, I did not find evidence/outcomes in the manner that would push me to move forward.
The group of 6th graders in my class are eager to learn and to use technology in that process. When engagement and interest are high, I believe the possiblities are endless. My goal now is to get one launched and completed. I look forward to improving upon whatever develops.