Capstone for Things 8-14

Reflection on things 8-14.

The resources presented for 8-14 have been very helpful and the additional links provided are helping me to build a library of resources for current and future projects.  The activities have been helpful but I have also spent as much time just checking out the wealth of resources provided.

The review and discussion sites on copyright are always useful, there are so many different interpretations and situations that arise in schools.  Many of the resources will be useful as questions come up at school.  Learning about CC and learning how to use it made me more aware of making myself become a participant in the process which will help me learn and understand the system more.  Since I find modeling to be one of the best ways to entice students and teachers to learn new skills, my learning to use one and using it makes it a lesson in waiting.  Many of these tools will help us meet the needs of our learners and cover the Marzano Strategies for Nonlinguestic representation, Cues, Questions and Advanced Organizers
and many of the NETS-T: 1.a, 1.b, 1.c, 2.a, 2.c, 2.d, 3.a, 3.c, 3.d.

Summary of  9, 10, 11, 13 & 14

Tools for photo editing, digital storytelling, interactive tools, video and audio resources and unique presentation tools like Prezi  support our diverse learners, giving us more ways to learn and teach. The wealth of online interactive tools and resources are useful for teachers and students and finding online tools for the students to use at school and at home will be useful for many of our projects.  Locating sources for copyright / royalty free resources is helpful, the more resources available the easier it is to get students and staff to use images without violating the creators’ rights.   Digital storytelling and different presentation tools will help us create engaging and meaningful lessons. Having a wealth of visual resources can make our lessons and student activities more interesting.

Thing 12 – Evaluation and Assessment: Learning to use data to evaluate our students and ourselves is a requirement in today’s classroom.  Using data to evaluate our teaching activities and lessons can help us improve our teaching and increase our students’ success rate. NETS-T: 2.a, 2.d, 3.a, 3.d

and Marzano Strategies: Reinforce Effort and Provide Recognition; Objectives and Feedback

I will be incorporating more use of copyright and creative commons in the lessons I do with student where we add visuals, these lessons include our mythblogs and our advertising websites.  I will also be encouraging the students to use picnik to edit photos to fit their needs instead of just copying and pasting.  I will also use these tools when working with our Stress Management class when they do their personal introductions using Windows Live Movie Maker to add audio to a collection of pictures and images of their class partner.  We will use movie maker instead of photo story or animoto because those programs are blocked for students.