Video Production and Education

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This spring in my f2f class I had my Earth science and my physical science class create videos based on a podcast put on by the McDonald's Observatory. Students were given the audio track from CD's and then used pictures found on the internet and then used movie maker to make a movie. A great component of using the podcast is that a transcript of the podcast was available so students could look at the text and use it to find pictures.

Here is the scoring rubric given to students with the assignment. Table's didn't work to well in Blogspot here is a link to a web page with the scoring guide.

Here are some examples of students work:

• Earl Video Link Stardate May 9th Link to Text


• Zech Video Link Stardate May 2nd Link to Text


• Josh Video Link Stardate May 3rd Link to Text

Here is my sample movie that student used to understand the project this video is on Teacher Tube.

Another project was a 30 second commercial here is my take on the assignment.

Talk to you later.

Jason Palmer

Gaming In Education for TAG

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After reading the article and looking at the assignment that states that this could be for TAG students I disagree in that gaming would work better for non-traditional students. Non-traditional students are burned out on school and gaming would be a method of getting them to participate and learn in a non-traditional method.

So these are my ramblings what are yours?

Jason

Project Based Learning

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So far my physical science course doesn't really have a project based learning project but I am hoping to implement some into my course. I have been thinking about some ideas to make it open ended projects so that students can take an assignment and internalize it and connect to their own learning. One of my concepts is to start with a standard problem such as how would you create a better light bulb. Some of the concepts that the students need to think about is materials and manufacturing of their new invention. One of the things that I hope students do is to do research on how a light bulb is manufactured and then think about ways that they would do to make it better. Other considerations for students are how much energy that light bulb takes to be powered so students can think about green energy. Once students have done the project students would be expected to grade their paper verses a paper already done.

So those are my ideas what are yours.

Jason

Freewrite at Summer Institute

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Today is a beautiful day at Medford, Oregon. At my annual summer institute for Oregon Online the question was asked "What does it mean to have a 21st Century Skills?"

21st Century Skills:

• You need to be able to use an email account.


• You need to be able to send and receive text messages by cell phone or online.


• You need to be able to make a web page.


• You need to be able to use a word processor.


• You need to be able to use a spread sheet.


• You need to be able to make a power point presentation.


• You need to be able to make new accounts and track login names and passwords.


• You need to know a little bit of html.


• You need to be able to adapt because all of the programs listed are going to change next week to something new.

What do you think?