As usual, I seem to do everything a little backward! (In university, somehow I took Freshman English 2 before Freshman English 1 and Art History, part 2 before Art History, part 1). So it’s not surprising that I’ve actually done my Stress imovie health project two times, before I was able to have my pre-conference observation, my observation, and post-conference debrief for my Certificate of Educational Technology and Information Literacy course.
In spite of having taught this lesson before, the advice and observations made by my course adviser, Kim Cofino, were extraordinarily helpful and enlightening. Kim is able to see the giant tech picture much more clearly than I am and she sees how to take this project to the next level. She had some really great suggestions for making this project more “real” for the students and some ideas about showing their work to a larger audience. Some of her ideas included sharing their stress movies with other people by posting their movies to their blogs or YouTube. For a school wide audience, she suggested sharing their movies with all of the synergy teachers or presenting them in a middle school assembly. As a future imovie project, she thought students might enjoy “teaching” sixth and seventh graders about stress and using the younger students as the target audience.
As a classroom teacher, new to technology, I usually think of “audience” as our class, our peers, our parents…I am not use to thinking about the larger community of “school” or even the virtual world. This is one of the things I’ve enjoyed about this course: the way it makes me think differently about technology and the various, practical uses of technology.
In spite of having taught this lesson before, the advice and observations made by my course adviser, Kim Cofino, were extraordinarily helpful and enlightening. Kim is able to see the giant tech picture much more clearly than I am and she sees how to take this project to the next level. She had some really great suggestions for making this project more “real” for the students and some ideas about showing their work to a larger audience. Some of her ideas included sharing their stress movies with other people by posting their movies to their blogs or YouTube. For a school wide audience, she suggested sharing their movies with all of the synergy teachers or presenting them in a middle school assembly. As a future imovie project, she thought students might enjoy “teaching” sixth and seventh graders about stress and using the younger students as the target audience.
As a classroom teacher, new to technology, I usually think of “audience” as our class, our peers, our parents…I am not use to thinking about the larger community of “school” or even the virtual world. This is one of the things I’ve enjoyed about this course: the way it makes me think differently about technology and the various, practical uses of technology.
Thanks Laura! So glad you found my feedback useful. Your students are doing such great work on a subject readily applicable to pretty much any other student that it would be great for them to have a wider audience. I love the idea of doing something in Synergy - it would even be cool to think about all the other fantastic things that all of our middle school teachers do and a special Synergy month to show different work to different groups of students. (Of course, that's a bigger project than what we are taking about here) :)
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