The capstone was a challenge, but not too intimidating. I enjoyed putting it together in a way that leads the viewer through the site. I really wanted to combine my marketing understanding to the site, and not just allow it to be a landing place of a bunch of thoughts. I hope that the site is helpful to at least a few teachers, and inspires some to look further.
I use iMovie for the final presentation, and enjoyed using it through the past 3 semesters. My big take away from the program was around transliteracy and how that pertains to all forms of media not just technology. I think about this is relation to sense-making. Looking at the gap of understanding, and methodically building knowledge base. I used this skill when planning each step of my capstone. Being able to truly see the audience, student or otherwise, was a great filter to build up and strengthen. I apologize for this brief entry, I typed the entire post and lost it, so I tried to speak to different aspect of my learning. Thanks for all the help everyone!
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My audience encompasses other teachers, encouraging them to adopt social emotional learning informed tools to support the whole child. I plan to start by creating an engaging tag line that asks how we can become more responsible for our students' social emotional learning and growth. On my learn more page, I plan to include a survey that educators and administrators can complete in order to see their SEL competence, followed by an email that will provide their results and suggestions for growth. I feel that this will also validate to teachers that this is a part of their duties. In Loco Parentis is an important creed for me, I hope to pass that excitement on to teachers. I plan to put a flipped lesson plan on the learn more page, the model is effective to reduce anxiety, giving an example of what teachers can do within instruction to promote social emotional learning. I also plan to promote the use of trauma-informed approaches, restorative practices, and other effective tools. Part of the importance for this awareness is also discovered by covering the ACE study, which shows how adverse childhood experiences lead to negative health outcomes as adults. As educators we're in the unique position to influence and dissuade this negative digression.
The video is going quite well. I've decided to simplify it a bit, instead of using animations, I'm going to use images and panning. I found that using Pixlr online editor made it easy to make multiple frames to create a flip book effect. This should do the trick.
The only other thought that comes up is whether the video should introduce the site. I've decided to utilize it in this way, to the video will introduce the concept of SEL, and also share about the tools on the site. I'm approaching this project from a marketing approach. I understand that many of these sites will not be used after the program concludes, but it seems like a good practice to try and compel visitors to engage with the site. A good critical friend, offers both positive and constructive feedback. It's so easy to patronize our peers when asked for feedback; being a critical friend means stepping back from that pressure to actually be helpful. This involves stepping back from the ego, and protection of our own ideas. There are some great models out there to support CF, one is the sandwich model, giving one positive, then constructive, and finishing with a positive. Also, with this, using affective statements, "I noticed", "I felt", "I heard"; also using "I wonder" when verbalizing constructive feedback is helpful to make the information approachable.
I'll be away this week most days, so I do not plan on meeting with peers. I understand my process pretty well, I'm fine working independently, this project seems very straight forward. I enjoyed the great introduction to storyboarding, video production and the worth of using video media in the classroom. I've done some similar planning using storyboards to create presentations. I was lucky to take a course with the Duarte Institute, the presentation designers who created the Ted format. I found it very enriching. The training was 5 hours; at the end of the session, the presenter had us guess how many slides he had used. Most guessed 150ish, but he had used 500+. Amazing how the images just painted a story that made the content much more relatable.
I plan to use iMovie, mainly because I'm familiar with it, and have done many projects quickly. I may also use garageband, or another DAW to edit sound, but iMovie has a pretty good audio editor as well. I plan to intermix freesource video with Prezi segments. I don't plan to be on video, but will do voice overs through the presentation. The hardest part will be timing everything. I was thinking about mimicing 90 second segments on news tv shows I enjoy, I'm thinking about the short segments on Vice News, I like how they intermix, content and pictures. I plan to do a lot with my use of forms in my capstone project. The survey will be completed in Gforms. From here I plan to use Flubaroo to auto grade the survey responses. This will export the data into an excel sheet for easy access. From here I want to be able to send the responses and "correct answers" (suggestions) via email, I chose to explore autoCrat for this function. Finally, I will use formLimiter to turn the survey off at a certain time. This will allow me to update the form at set times, keeping the data collection coherent.
I did a Beta test out of this plan, and found that Flubaroo has the function to auto-correct, AND send an email to recipients. I explored this option, and found that AutoCrat is a better option for auto-sending emails. Autocrat allows for formed emails, allowing me to send more of a standard email, rather than Flubaroo's basic response. I will likely go with AutoCrat. formLimiter was also easy to set up and performed the function I expected. I'd say the hardest part of this assignment had to do with setting up the auto-grading option in Flubaroo. I wanted to have the individuals select all that apply, followed by suggestions on the options that they didn't select. I have to use the program in a different way to accomplish this. Overall, I'm becoming more fluent in the language of Add-ons. Looking forward to seeing it come together for the capstone. I had the goal to keep my logo very simple. I understand that there have been some suggestions to include some impression of technology into the logo, but I do not think that's necessary from a design perspective. The prototype that I'm creating will use all the TPACK guidelines, but the site is not explicitly about technology use. I actually think this is the goal of the over all program, to integrate technology into lessons and presentations seamlessly, with out the need to announce it as something new or different.
The title and function of the site is called: SEL 123. It will serve as a resource for teachers to integrate Social Emotional Learning (SEL) tools and activities seamlessly into their instruction. Draft Logos: I had the goal to keep my logo very simple. I understand that there have been some suggestions to include some impression of technology into the logo, but I do not think that's necessary from a design perspective. The prototype that I'm creating will use all the TPACK guidelines, but the site is not explicitly about technology use. I actually think this is the goal of the over all program, to integrate technology into lessons and presentations seamlessly, with out the need to announce it as something new or different.
The title and function of the site is called: SEL 123. It will serve as a resource for teachers to integrate Social Emotional Learning (SEL) tools and activities seamlessly into their instruction. Draft Logos: I currently do not teach in a school, but chose to assess the goals for technology growth from Sacramento City Unified School District. I've worked alongside this district in the past year through my non-profit work, but have never looked at their technology vision until now. This statement was taken from the SCUSD website:
Over the next three years the District will guide teachers in making a transition from using technology for skill acquisition to one in which the technology provides increased functional improvement in the classroom, allowing the student to use the technology to define and re-define the instructional tasks in the technology-embedded learning environment. The SCUSD goals for growth do appear to have the SAMR model in mind, transitioning from lower level, skills acquisition, to a more integrated, functional improvement in the classroom. This goal is shaped around improving function, which is a key element in the classroom to save time. An example of this is the use of Gforms to administer and auto-correct check for understanding tasks. This provides better function in the classroom, as the teachers energy is used most effectively. The second part of the statement really speaks to the full potential of the SAMR model, even using the term, re-define, denoting the highest goals of the SAMR model to innovate in pace with technology growth. SCUSD's concept of the embedded learning environment, also speaks to adherence to the TPACK model, where technology is embedded and ubiquitous with pedagogy and content knowledge. TPACK also comes up as the district seeks to, guide teachers in making a transition. TPACK requires that the teacher be the center architect of technology integration; without the combination of pedagogy, content knowledge, AND technology, learning is not guaranteed. Simply giving the teachers new programs to pass on to students is not the answer, especially with the technology skill set of some teachers. PD is essential, the district seems to understand this, I believe they are on track to meet their goals. SCUSD meets the same goals as my capstone, though it addresses different content, the integration of technology is done in an informed and tactful manner. I've expanded my use of gforms from the insights from this program. Prior to the program, I would use the forms for simple tasks, mostly surveys. The add-ons and different tools that allow for auto-grading and auto-sending of emails has been a huge advance. I really see how this type of tech streamlines the teaching experience. I'm always looking for ways to reduce my logistical management time, tools like gforms an make this possible. I find the gforms very intuitive, there are also many easily accessed you tube video tutorials available. This is my go to way to learn anything! I've heard of someone actually built a house just from you tube tutorials!!
As mentioned there are you tube videos, but sometimes they are for older versions of gforms. I experienced a challenge when I was trying to connect my gform to my google sheets doc. I was using the directions from the outdated video, which kept me from seeing the google sheets icon at the top for the gform. Once I figured that out it was easy sailing. I really like that google keeps everything online, making it easy to distribute and store all data from gforms. I really like the article about TIFF teaching, putting an auto-graded assessment in between the independent flipped exploration and time with the teacher. I really like how the teacher used this tool to CFU, and modify instruction based on discovered needs. This kind of data driven teaching really appeals to me, and I hope many more teachers can access these tools. |
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