Service project session 2

I helped guide Shana through the research by having a list of search engines ready for her to start looking up facts on the Appaloosa Horse. I gave her the list then she started looking up facts and pictures to use in our voicethread. I used inquiry based learning in exploration on the tools by giving her list then letting her do the work just like we do in class. It was also alot easier on me because she was a little bit older so she knew how to use mostly everything I gave her.

Service Project session 3

Shana, my student already knew alot about horses because she takes english riding lessons. But when I started asking her questions about her favorite horse she realized she didn't know much about it. I would ask her questions about the stuff we researched and she would recall it. The open ended questions worked best with our project just because our project was mainly about detail of a horse. Pretty much I typed and wrote everything but she told me what to write. On the movie however we found a website that told about the Appaloosa horse and we highlighted what we thought was necessary and then divided it to say it on the movie. Everything was equally divided through the whole process of the project. Before this session I looked up stuff on the horse so I was knowledgeable also so I could ask proper questions that would help advance us in the movie making.

Service Project session 1

My student is a 13 year old girl named Shana. We started talking about what she was interested in she said she like horses and she takes riding lessons. Her favorite horse was the Appaloosa horse and we decided our question would be about where these horses came from. Also who bread these horses. To start I pretty much let her know what we were going to be doing. I let her read the checklist of what we were required to do. At first she was very overwhelmed but we broke it down into days. Since she is a little bit older she is fully capable of doing the research with a little guidance. We figured out our questions then started researching.

Here is her blog we started-Shana.

Spreadsheet

For my unit of Making a Difference I would have my students first draw pictures of how they make a difference either at home or in the community. Then have them write a few sentences to explain the pictures and explain how they help. Then to incorporate the spreadsheet I would present them with some questions and they would answer them. The questions I have prepared have simple answers. 1) What type of transportation do you use to school. 2) How many hours a week do you travel in a car/truck? 3) Does your family drive a hybrid car? Why or why not?

Spreadsheet

Past, Present, and Future of Communication Video

We worked really had on this video we used Window Movie Maker and Audacity to put our movie together and add sound. You should be able to understand our movie without sound. The pictures should tell the story. I think the video is true its been really hard to learn all of these different tools in a week. Its been tedious work and frustrating at time. We had to transition sometime to be able to change file types to make sure things would upload and download. We had to first decide if we wanted a partner or not then combine our unit plans. Mine was How to make a difference. and Kara's was how communication devices has changed. I focused on how things have changed since great grandparents time so our units blended well. We learned different angles of video taping there is trucking, dollying, tilting; those are just a few that we learned. We had to incorporate these angles into our movie and the scene had to change about every 5 seconds.

These tools can be used on any subject or topic. So using it in the classroom would be pretty easy. The hardest part is learning the tools on the computer but once you have played around will all the program it was pretty easy to learn. Also it took a whole week so having enough time to finish the project is key. You can use videos in the classroom as an example as a start to a new subject or you can have the kids make their own video. You can pretty much do anything with them. In the case of my unit plan for the question I was answering the students could interview their family members like Kara and I interviewed each other. They could interview thier family members to learn how communication changed. With all the videos they could make a big presentation and learn that way. They can learn about the past and also reflect on the present in their own way. I think using the videos would be a great thing for an individual project or partner projects like mine. Its also reletively easy for younger children to use also with some help of course. Another idea for my unit plan of making a difference is the students could go out in the community and video tape how we are ruining the earth and the students can show us how they can help better the earth. This would show us how they can make a difference.

Digital Storytelling videos

I am making my video about the ways life has changed over time and I'm grouping up with someone else who is doing her project on communication devices changing over time. I think our project will blend together well. We are using pictures and our voices to describe the way things have changed. For example the telephone or computers. I think this will be effective in a history lesson about the past and present or a lesson on communication devices. I think gift of voice is an effective step to this video also point of view. This video is showing things that has changed in our lifetime and things that have changed well before even our parents were born.

This is my unit plan.

SlideShare

Digital Storytelling is used to express and communicate people feeling and opinions through technology. Some examples of the technology you can use is SlideShare, SlideCast, or VoiceThread. You can tell stories with pictures and use voices to tell stories with these tools. Children and Teachers can use these tools in the classroom or lab and at home.


With my unit of making a difference I could use SlideShare, SlideCast, or VoiceThread in the part about protecting the past, securing the present, and impacting the future. We could as a class use VoiceThread to put up pictures and then explain why we used those pictures to answer the question about the past, present, and future. We could also use SlideShare or VoiceThread to do a powerpoint. The student could interview their grandparents or greatgrandparents even parents to describe over the microphone about how life has changed since they were little.
This is my SlideShare I made as an example I would expect from one of my students when answering the question Where I'm From and Where I'm Going.

Where Im From Pres. Good

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