Survived!!!!!!!!!

Learning Summary:

When I first came into this course, I was very lost, it took me several weeks and forgetting to upload my first assignment and RR posting and Comments. I was already getting behind and feeling overwhelmed. I continued and tried hard not to get anxious. I did stay frustrated most of the course, however I feel I have learned a great deal :

I have created a Wikispace and uploaded lesson plans, storyboards, resources and lecture videos.

I have learned much more about my computer, the requirements and the software that it has.

I have learned more about the Sunshine State Standards for my area of teaching and how to incorporate the NETs-T into my curriculum.

I created a Blog and learned how to use it, embed information and how to follow others. In addition, I also learned more about Twitter and how it can benefit my students.

I have acquired knowledge about Google and Docs.

I have learn how to better research material and how to use this material to benefit my students and me as an instructor.

The last assignment was finishing up my portfolio. This was a task in itself. I still could not get a grip on how to upload my artifacts into something other than links. That is frustrating and I know it will kill my grade. I spent a lot time on it and just could not master it.

As I leave this course, I feel I will take so much with me to be a better educator using Digital Technology.

Final Cultminating Project

This has been a long semester. However, I will walk away with a lot of information to use in my classes with my students. I finally became comfortable with all the sites; blogging, tweeting and my favorite ended up being Wikispaces. I really enjoyed working this past week on my curriculum in Wikispaces. There is alot of fine tuning that will be needed, but that is always the case when you are working with lesson plans.

Please see my final project with all revisions complete.

http://lipkalearningcorner.wikispaces.com/

Student Assesment using Rubrics

This week's assignment is another continuation of the pass few weeks. We were ask to create a Grading Rubric for our Wiki space where we have been creating a curriculum page and Digital story telling assignment.

After reading the lecture, notes, web pages, I learned much more in the reasoning behind rubrics.

• Rubrics improve student performance by clearly showing the student how their work will be evaluated and what is expected.
• Rubrics help students become better judges of the quality of their own work.
• Rubrics allow assessment to be more objective and consistent.
• Rubrics force the teacher to clarify his/her criteria in specific terms.
• Rubrics reduce the amount of time teachers spend evaluating student work.
• Rubrics promote student awareness about the criteria to use in assessing peer performance.
• Rubrics provide useful feedback to the teacher regarding the effectiveness of the instruction.
• Rubrics provide students with more informative feedback about their strengths and areas in need of improvement.
• Rubrics accommodate heterogeneous classes by offering a range of quality levels.
• Rubrics are easy to use and easy to explain.

Rubrics can be created in a variety of forms and levels of complexity, however, they all contain three common features which:

• focus on measuring a stated objective (performance, behavior, or quality).
• use a range to rate performance.
• contain specific performance characteristics arranged in levels indicating the degree to which a standard has been me.

After learning more about rubrics its now time for me to create one. I did a web search and looked at several rubric makers. I chose to use Rubistar http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

You may view mine at: http://lipkalearningcorner.wikispaces.com/Rubric

Wiki-Tweakie

This week is a continuation of last weeks assignment. Last week we were to set up a Wiki or Web-Quest page or some other format to use Digital Story telling and consider our curriculum. So this week I opened up that Wiki page URL I created and I have to admit, I pondered over this for a few days. I first had to learn how to incorporate my curriculum, then decide what I would use. This endeavor was not so simple! However, I chose not to get overwhelmed and tackle this one step at a time, I took many breaks.... Three days later- I finally came to a stopping point on this Wiki page.

As with any project and using technology, it will never fully be completed, it is a work that is in a continual process.

Here is my Wiki Page: A work in continual process.http://lipkalearningcorner.wikispaces.com/Home+Page

I had some issues how I was going to use a final compilation of my work using a digital story telling. I ended up
using lectures in a PowerPoint format that represents digital story telling.

I also incorporated an assignment that requires my students to do the same. However, they are not aware that they are creating a digital story-telling project at this time.

Curriculum and Technology Via Wiki's

Students are very much technology savvy, they relate to the current technology uses and really want to see more and more of it used it the classroom. I had been on this semester long journey learning all of the technologies that are needed to enhance my classroom lectures.

This week our assignment is really a continuum of last week. Last week we were to day dream about how we could create a wiki space and incorporate our curriculum into it. I spent a lot of time reading the web links presented in this weeks reading assignments. "Building Your Curriculum Page", "Zipping Files",
"Web Quest", just to name a few. Teacher Tube Videos -, Teacher Tube.com, Education World ® Professional Development Center: The "Art" of Comprehension were some other sites I explored as well.


Now came the time to create that Wiki and incorporate my curriculum into it. I must admit this was another task not so easily accomplished. I spent several hours just navigating the site before I could grasp a concept on where to begin. Then I spent several more hours getting my information loaded up into the Wiki.
I had issues getting the pages to locate where I wanted them, some still are not where I want them to be.
I would have like a background color on the entire page(s) still tweaking that one. I had loaded a resource page regarding the material they will be working own. Along with some YouTube videos as well.

I still have to prepare a summary sheet of how they are to create a Digital Story Board using PowerPoint.

My students are of an older group and a lot of the technology is new to them. Most are comfortable with PowerPoint, so I need them to explore and work with slide share to turn their PowerPoint into a Digital story.

Here is the link to my wiki, Much work is still needed!!! http://lipkalearningcorner.wikispaces.com/

Integrating Technology into the Curriculum

This week’s assignment was to read Chapter 6 from our text (Shelly, Gunter and Gunter).

Review a host of Website resources for Digital Story telling and dream a bit on how I could integrate technology into my curriculum and have my students use digital story telling in their assignments.

I teach Allied Health Courses in Vocational Occupations at the college level. I am constantly looking for additional resources for my students. The current courses I am teaching are Anatomy and Physiology, Medical Terminology and Medisoft. The publishers offer very little resources in addition to the textbooks.

One of the requirements in my classes is to have the students do a research project on a disease of their choice or a current event that relates to their class. I require the research to be at least five pages long. They are also required to present their work to the class. I require them to use some type of visual aids as well. Thinking about the past two weeks of assignments and my current curriculum, I am now feeling a bit more confident that digital story telling would benefit my students. Most of the students are non-traditional, they are on average 30 plus in age and most are women. Getting them to use technology that is computer based has been a bit of a struggle, however since learning about digital storyboards, I think these students could have a better learning experience and have fun at the same time. I am a strong believer that learning should be fun and exciting.

I am excited about the up coming project for this class, which will be creating a Wikispace. Dreaming a bit how I would set this up using my current curriculum and incorporate Digital Story telling.

A project that I would have my students do is curriculum based and the students would a choice of using different media:

I would offer a Web linked tutorial section for different media sources.

· Digital Storytelling: A Tutorial in 10 Easy Steps

• Video Story Telling Basics Storytelling

• Storytelling Ideas

• PowerPoint

• PowerPoint presentation using Slideshare

My classes are health related so the digital story telling would need to be a simple project to complete.

Wonderful World of Digital Media for Students

Technology has been in our schools for many years now; the first use of technology in schools was to have a computer in the class. We have sense moved way beyond that now. We are incorporating so much technology to enhance the students learning. The assignment for this week was to read chapter 5 Integrating Digital Media and Educational Software Applications. As our textbook states digital media software refers to any computer-based presentation or application software that uses multimedia elements. Allowing users to create new forms of interaction, expression, communication, and entertainment in a digital format. Digital media uses all the elements of multimedia but in a digital format. Teachers Discovering Computers (Integrating Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom) by Gary B. Shelly.

For the hands on portion of this assignment, we were to create a brief presentation in which you address how digital story telling might benefit your (current or future) students. I did find this a bit difficult, as I am still learning all the facts myself.


I searched many sites for using technology to create this presentation, in the assignment, it suggested PowerPoint, Prezi. I looked at Google Docs, Microsoft Power Point, even downloaded a few that totally frustrated me.

I looked into Photo Story3 where you can create slide shows using your digital photos. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures. Add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories. Then, personalize them with titles and captions. Small file sizes make it easy to send your photo stories in an e-mail. Watch them on your TV, a computer, or a Windows Mobile–based portable device.

I finally decided to create my story board in Microsoft Power Point, I am not really efficient at power point but feel more comfortable using it.

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