Digital Story
Creating new media is a useful tool to design interesting ways to encourage student engagement and understanding with new material. Here is an example of new media tying together lessons learned teaching Astronomy and Geology.
Story Map
To begin the process of designing new Media first you must put out your story design on paper.
To begin the process of designing new Media first you must put out your story design on paper.
Script
Next, the story itself must be laid out completely and all dialogue planned out.
Next, the story itself must be laid out completely and all dialogue planned out.
Reflection
After creating new media is always important to review and evaluate what was done well, and what could be improved upon.
After creating new media is always important to review and evaluate what was done well, and what could be improved upon.
Student Scoring Rubric
Encouraging students to create new media as part of their curriculum is a useful formative assessment tool for them to evaluate learning as they create a new product. However, the standards that student should be shooting for need to be clear.
Encouraging students to create new media as part of their curriculum is a useful formative assessment tool for them to evaluate learning as they create a new product. However, the standards that student should be shooting for need to be clear.
Independent Learning Project
An educator should always strive to gain new insight to technology, searching for tools to improve instruction. Here I explored useful tool from the University of Colorado: PhET Lab.
Online Community
Participating in online communities gives educators many resources to improve and evaluate their instruction with. I enjoy participating within reddit.com and sharing ideas, research, experiments, and videos with other educators.