Standard 3.2
As a teacher there are many resources available to assist in teaching students in your classroom. Technology is nothing new, but it continues to get better and allows teachers to step aside some and allow students to discover on their own. As a teacher, managing these resources is key. For this standard I am using my Multimedia web quest. This assignment was created by myself for the purpose of getting students to research the people who settled the original 13 colonies. The assignment had students break up into groups and then choose a region that the thirteen colonies had been broken down into. Each group was given a region and was tasked with researching four questions. Why people migrated there? What religions were they? What were there main industries? Were there any people of importance who lived there? These questions were to give students a better look at the original European settlers to the new world. From the research, groups were to create Power Point presentations detailing the information they found. This would end up making the students the teachers for the class. Once groups were created students would then work through the web quest that I created on Weebly.
For this artifact I had to simply create a technological resource to use in my classroom. I had to be able to use the resource effectively to assess student learning in the short term. By creating this artifact through Weebly, I can manage this tool and go back and change things when needed. I can always add or take away things from the web quest. Using Weebly allows me to add a good amount of content and different tools to help students learn the content at hand. This is a public web quest so students can continue to go back and use it throughout the duration of the assignment. Being able to manage this content is important I will be able to use this in the future for other US history classes. On the web quest I placed videos that would help give students information about the regions that they have been assigned. Included with the videos are educational sites to help students research the topics. The resource is easy to maintain, which will help to continue updating for future use.
This artifact took a good deal of time and effort. I had to align the resource with state standards as well as ISTE standards. I learned that it takes a lot of background work to get a web quest up and going. I also learned that within the web quest you must give specific details and directions. Along with these details and directions should be examples that you have created or from past classes. Having all of this will help ensure that the final product will be of good quality. Creating avenues for research is also a good lesson to learn. Not all high school age students know how to research properly. Because of this I put together educational sites filled with information to help model appropriate research. If I were going to do it again, I would add Google documents to this so that students could share their presentations with one another as well as myself. I would also like to have students create outlines to go along with their presentations so students would be able to take some notes while the groups are teaching.
I think allowing students to discover the information on their own will increase student achievement at our school. Student achievement is the key focus to full school improvement. In a project based atmosphere students are asked to expand their minds and create a product. This will increase student achievement greatly. This can be assessed through the quality of student presentations and through formative assessment scores.
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