Day 44 - Showcase

As I told you before, hang in there. The semester is going over soon. Now it is the time that we wrap up everything, including your assignment, portfolio, and your EXPERIENCE and KNOLWEDGE about integrating technology into teaching. I enjoyed a lot having this class with you. I am glad that you all joined the class discussion, try your best to finish the assignments, and show your learning progress. Hopefully, you will bring the experience and knowledge learned in EDIT 2000 to your future classroom.

Today we still have something left to do.
1. You need to set up your station to demonstrate your work in the beginning of the class and I am going to provide some snacks.
2. Watch your iMovie project
3. Present your portfolio site and your favorite work to other classmates
4. Vote for the most representative portfolio of our EDIT 2000
5. Complete the end-of-course evaluation - please take this seriously - (as I -- and my department head -- certainly do)
6. We need to take a class picture
7. Please make sure you fill in the "Final Checkout" sheet before you leave - with your portfolio address and your contact information in case I am unable to access your work
8. For 11:15 class, make sure that you get the graded evaluation form from me for your Capstone project and the current grade report for the previous projects (grade for final reflection and final portfolio are not included)
9. I will finish grading by May. 7 - your grade will be available in OASIS immediately after I post them. Please let me know if you have questions about your final grade.

~~~Have a great SUMMER- and please stop by next semester!~~~

Day 43 - Finish up ....

Please turn in the hardcopy of your final reflection
at the begining of the class.

Today is our last day to work on your final portfolios. The portfolio will be due at the begining of Monday's class. Please visit the project description again to ensure that you have had everything. During the class today, please ask me should you have any questions for your final portfolio.

Thing to do on Next Monday:
1. Set up your station (Prepare any decorations or bring any food, be CREATIVE)
2. watch your iMovie project
3. Review classmates' portfolios
4. Vote for the most representative work in EDIT 2000
5. Do the End-of-Course evaluation
6. Fill in the Final Checkout Sheet
7. Announce the winner
8. Take a class picture

For Graded Capstone Project

10:10 Class

I've finished all of the grading for 10:10 class. For those who don't get 80%, you will have another chance to resubmit your work. Please revise according to my feedback. After revision, re-upload your file to googlepage and submit both the original copy and revised copy of your capstone project. The resubmittal is due on Monday at the begining of the class. If you don't submit on time, I will not accept your revised work.

11:15 Class

I will do my best to finish grading, but I can't promise to return your work tomorrow (Apr, 27). Sorry!!

Showcase

In our showcase, we are going to vote for the most representative portfolio in EDIT 2000. The pereson who got this "AWARD" will have full score on his/her final portfolio. So, please do your best to present your work to other folks in our classroom.

Day 42 - Final Portfolio

Class Offered Next Semester
In the begining of the class, we will have Ms. Gretchen Thomas to talk to you about the class that she is going to offer next fall. She is a great teacher and a nice person to work with. If you take her class, I am sure that you will LOVE her.

Final Reflection
After we went through the assignment description for your final refelction, by now you should be clear about what to write. A good tip for you is always go back to the blog that I posted in the begining of the semester about learning puzzle and Loti level. You will get a lot out from information there.

Final Portfolio
It's time to finish up your portfolio. View the project description to see what will be graded. All of your pages should be completed by next Monday (April 30). After you complete your entire portfolio, you will need to proofread your pages and ensure that all of your links work. For both your final reflection and final portfolio, you can not use the late pass. They will need to be submitted by the due day on time.

Last Day of Our Class -- Final Showcase
We have several things to complete on Monday. Do you still remember your iMovie project? Yes, we will be watching your movie. After that, you are going to view the work of your classmates and vote on the portfolio that is the most representative of the work that is completed in EDIT 2000. Prizes will be awarded. Make a plan how you will decorate your station and how you will encourage fellow students to view your stations.

For Friday's Class:
1. Submit a hardcopy of your final reflection. You don't need to work in GooglePage for this project.
2. Continue to finish up your final portfolio and start to plan how to decorate your stations

Day 41 - Let's Wrap Up

Your Capstone Project
In today's class, I will collect the hardcopy of your completed ASSURE model lesson plan. After that, I will be giving you 5 minutes to convert your final Capstone project to PDF format. In other words, you need to finish up everything for the Capstone project except the conversion to PDF format.

Final Reflection
It has been a long way for you to go through many projects in our class. Now we are moving toward the end of the semester. I believe you learned a lot from the projects. Let's conclude your learning journey in EDIT 2000 with a reflection. Today we will be going through the background information for final reflection. Your reflection will be due on April 27, which is this Friday. The reflection requires you to respond to the questions in the final reflecton project description page. It will not be longer than 3 pages.

For Wednesday's Class
We will talk about some items you need to pay attentionto for the completion of your portfolio. Also, I will explain how the internal showcase will be going on last day of class.

Get an idea what's left for this semester
April 25 (Wed) - background information on the Final Portfolio and how to get ready for the last day of class
Apirl 27 (Fri) peer review on your Final Portfolio and due day for the Final Reflection
April 30 (Mon) - last day of class, Capstone grades returned, end-of-course evaluation, movie time for your iMovie project, Final Portfolio due, class showcase , class picture
May7 (Mon) - Final grades will be posted

Day 40 - Capstone 3

By today, you should complete the first three sections of the ASSURE model, including Analyze learners, State Objectives, and Select Methoda, Media, and Materials.
In today's class, let's continue to work on the rest of three sections. In the Utilize Media and Materials, make sure that you address 5Ps. The next section is the largest section in your Capstone project, which you need to indicate the sequential order of your instruction. Last session, evaluate and revise, needs your clear plan of how to evaluate the learners, the instructors, and media use. Always visit our project description page to ensure that you are on the right track.

For Next Monday's Class:
The Capstone project will be due next Monday at the begining of the class. In addition to the completion of the GooglePage, you also need to bring a hardcopy of your final product. If you fail to bring your copy, your final product will not be accepted.

Day 39 - Capstone 2

iMovie Project
For those who still have mini tape with you, please return the tape to me.

Capstone Project
From Monday's class, you've learned what the ASSURE model is and what the required components are. Today, you will begin to add information pertinent to your "lesson" to the ASSURE model template. Let's target at finishing the first three components before Friday's class. Again, if you have any questions on creating your lesson plan, use the references that I have provided, such as the handouts given out last Friday and the website.

Friday's Class:
Complete the first three components: Analyze learners, State objectives, and Select Methods, Media, and Materials.

Day 38 - Capstone 1

iMovie Project
Today is the due day for your iMovie project, make sure that you send the link to your iMovie page to yichunhong@gmail.com with subject as iMovie_yoursessioin_yourname.

Introduction to Capstone Project
There are many different lesson plan formats, but one that helps to organize teaching and learning through the use of technologym is the ASSURE model:
A: Analyze Learners
S: State Objectives
S: Select the Methods, Media, and Materials
U: Utilize Media and Materials
R: Require Learner Participation
E: Evaluate and Revise
For your Capstone Project, you will select one of the projects you created this semester and write an original lesson plan that uses that project to teach a Georgia Performance Standard. You will use the ASSURE model as your lesson plan format. The instructor in IT program, Gretchen Thomas have created a web page that will walk you through the development process step-by-step. The handout that I gave it to you last Friday can be very helpful as well. You can view the project description and grading rubric.Your final product (due on Monday, April 23) will be the completed instructional plan template. It will be most likely 3-4 pages long. The largest section of your template should be the "Require Learner Participation" section, as this is where you will describe students' actual learning activities -- what your learners will be doing.

For Wednesday's Class:
1. Begin working on your lesson plan with using ASSURE model. Go to the Capstone project description page to download the template.

Day 37 - iMovie 4

Target at finishing up your movie TODAY!
You should finish cropping your clips on Wednesday. You also added transitions, effects, titles in your movie. Today you will continue to work on your movie and wrap up editing it. The length of your movie should be 2-3 minutes. We aim to finish your movie by the end of this class. However, if you need more time to work on it, you can go to OIT (Rm 232) to check out the key for editing suite (Rm602) by yourselves.
Now, you have learned the tool, but we haven't talked about how this tool can assist in the teaching and learning process. Please view the examples below to get ideas on teaching with digital video and still images.
Watershed Documentary–High school science
A Living Alphabet–Elementary Language Arts
Meet the Artist–Middle School Social Studies and Art
You can also view more examples from Apple Learning Interchange. When you view these examples, think about the following questions. What standards in your content area lend themselves to digital images? What learning style can be supported by the use of digital images? What teaching strategies can be supported by using digital images? Does it matter who is creating the image - the teacher or students? Does it matter as far as LoTi levels?
In your reflection for iMovie project, you need to locate four examples of educational video in your chosen grade level and subject area. Include the links, screenshots, and descriptions for the examples that you found online. In order to make sure that you are on the right track, going over the iMovie project description can be very helpful.

For Monday's Class:
1. Your iMovie project will be due on Monday, April 16 at the begining of the class. Include your movie (Email format), reflections on developing this project, four education video examples, and their links, screenshots, and descriptions.
2. Review the reading about ASSURE model carefully for your next project, capstone. By reading the article can GREATLY help you work on CAPSTONE project.

Day 36 - iMovie 4

Today is our second day to edit your movie. Please go directly to the editing suite (Rm 602) and use the computer that you worked with on Monday. On Monday's class, you had imported your footage to the computer and started to organize your footage. Many of you had already started cropping your footage and adding effects and transitions to your movie. In today's class, you can start to add the still images and music background if it's applicable. So, don't forget to bring your music and still images today.

For Friday's Class:
1. Continue to work on your movie and bring any needed still images or music for your editing.
2. By the end of the class, you should be able to export your movie, find other four educational video examples to include in your reflection for iMovie project.
3. Again, the due day for your iMovie project will be Monday, April 16, at the begining of the class.

Day 35 - iMovie 3

Let's start editing!
(1) Bring your tape of no more than 8 minutes of raw footage for your video.
(2) Bring any music that you want to use as background on your video.
(3) Bring any still images you want to use in your video
(4) We will be working with your video at the editing suite, which is in rm 602. We will still meet in our LAB (Rm616) at the beginning of today’s class.

Today you'll begin editing your video. Our goal for today is to import all of your raw footage and begin cropping. Decide what (if any) music or voiceovers you want to use and be prepared to work on them on Wednesday.

Please note that your group can reserve the editing suites on your own through OIT in room 232. Friday will be our last day to edit as a class. Your movies are due at the beginning of class Monday, April 16.

Wednesday's Class:
Continue edidint your movie. Also, bring any still images and music for your movie if you need to.

Day 33 - iMovie 1

iMovie and Educational Videos
Public service announcements have been around forever. It is incredible what an impact 30 seconds can have. Using video ineducation has been around for a long time, but it is just in recent years that it has become simple for classroom teachers and children to create and edit their own educational videos. The Apple Learning Interchange gives multiple examples of using educational video for teaching content standards.You'll want to review the project descriptions for this project. We will use iMovie for editing. iMovie HD is the software available in the iLife suite on Macintosh computers. PCs have a similar software called MovieMaker 2.0 -- but it is not as easy to use in its existing version.Today you'll learn the ins and outs of the software. We will edit video during the next 3 class meetings.

For Friday:
1. One of the students from each group sends me following information (Due: April 6, 10 am):
1) name of your group members,
2) Title of your project,
3) Target Audiences,
4) Objectives of your educational movie
2. Please remember that class will not meet on Friday, April 6, because it will be your filming day.

For next Monday's class:
1. Bring your tape of no more than 8 minutes of raw footage for your video.
2. Bring any music that you want to use as background on your video.
3. Bring any still images you want to use in your video

More Resources for iMovie project:
iLife http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/collection.php?collectionID=7
iLife Tutorial http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/
iMovie Tutorial http://www.atomiclearning.com/imovie2x.shtml
A winning video entry: http://mabryonline.org/movie_html/2005-8-INDI-Right-to-Vote.htm
Storyboarding Tutorial: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ricky/etec/whatis.html
Digital Video Resources: http://www.ivieawards.org/video_resources2.html

Other things might be needed for capturing your footage:
1. Lapel microphone
2. Tripod

Day 32 - WebQuest 6

In today’s class, we will have thirty minutes to wrap up your WebQuest. After that, you will be collecting feedback from other classmates to improve your WebQuest. After review, the reviewer will give the critique form to the designer. And the designer will need to post the critique to the blogsite.

For Wednesday’s class:
1. Review the project description before you turn in your WebQuest on April, 4 (Wed) at the beginning of the class. Send your project to yichunhong@gmail.com with subject as webquest_yoursession_yourname.
2. In your WebQuest page under your portfolio, you will need to include a description of your WebQuest, a screen shot of your WebQuest, a link to your blogsite, and a link to your introduction page of your WebQuest website.
3. For your blogsite, you will need six entries posted on your blogsite before April, 4.
4. When you submit your WebQuest project, you will also need to include the evaluation of your team member. You need to indicate how much percent of work was complete by your team member and yourself respectively. For example, Yi-Chun (40%) & Amy (60%)