I ended up revising my web quest a lot! Click here to view my finished product ready for grading. :0)

Today we learned how to make a survey in google documents. Here is a link to my survey that I created to go along with my webquest.
I also embedded my survey into the conclusion page of my webquest.

Today in class we signed up for a new account on www.Rubistar.org Rubi star offers a hassle free way for creating rubrics for lesson and units. A rubric sets certain standards and point values so that you can assess student products.

Today we learned about a new website where we can create our own polls. Go to http://www.polleverywhere.com/ and sign up for an account.
We also uploaded some of our information that we are going to use for our webquest onto our google site.

Today we leaned how to use a new presentation tool called Prezi. The tool is designed to be used within the education setting by teachers and students. The program is free and you can get your own account if you are current student or educator. Just go to http://www.prezi.com/ and sign up. To give students some information about our upcoming project we pasted information about our web quest into a prezi design. I like this new tool and plan to use it in years to come in my classroom. Click here to see my prezi in progress.

Photo Story 3

1. What is Photo Story 3 for Windows and how do I get a copy? Photo story 3 is a newer program and a way for students to create a multimedia presentation with animated pictures, music, and narration. You can download a free copy from the Internet.
2. What is the file type for a MPS project? wmv
3. What is the file type for an exported MPS movie?
4. Where do MPS projects open? Windows Media Player
5. Where do exported MSP movies open? Youtube
6. Can you do transitions between images in MPS project? yes
7. Describe the image editing options in MPS. You can add effects, change color, and chage how the image appears and exits the screen.
8. Describe the image viewing options in MPS (include motion/duration). You can change the motion of your pictures and also apply different time durations to the slides according to your needs.
9. How do you turn a PowerPoint presentation into images? Save the images of your powerpoint to JPEG press ctrl A, upload images on photo story hit ctrl A again. Your images will appear in photo story.

Webquest questions

What is your essential question?
What makes up Art?
What is your web quest title?
Elements in History
What is your role #1?
Critic
What is the highest order thinking skills question you have for this role?
Analyzing and judging
What level of the revised Bloom's Taxonomy is this question asked?
What is the artifact being produced by this role?
A critic of different genres of art
What program will you they use to create the artifact?
Some type of online written artifact criticing the works made by different generes of art

• We went over the SURE project and some possible topics for our action research projects.
• We investigated 5 webquest lessons within groups of 4. Webquest is an online tool to create web based lesson. Too see the webquest site where we viewed the lessons click here.

My Curriculum-Framing Questions

Essential Questions
What makes up Art?
Unit Questions
In what ways do the elements and principles make up and effect a work of art?
Content Questions
What are the elements and principles of design?
How can i use the elements and principles to create my own work of art?

Feb 25th

In todays class we created a web page for the unit we are building. We learned how to link content standards and teaching standards to our home page.

ISTE NET S standards covered:
Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.

Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.

Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.

Information for My Intel Unit

Subject: Art
Topic: Elements of Design (6th Grade)
Learning Outcomes:
Students will
1. Learn about the elements of design
2. Apply what they have learned by creating a project
3. Participate in an online assessment

ISTE NETS standards I hope to cover in my unit:

• Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
• Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
• Customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.
• Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
• promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.

Visual Ranking Project

My visual ranking activity is:

Ranking 5 Different Areas of Art

Description:
Student groups will rank 5 disciplines of art. Their decisions should represent the ideas of the whole group. The group should also be able to debate and defend their ranking with the other class groups.

Teacher ID: JessicaFerrell88@gmail.com
Team Names: Red Team (pw. red)
Blue Team (pw. blue)
Yellow Team (pw. yellow)

(Click here to sign in as one of the teams and start ranking now!)


ISTE NETS This Activity Applies To:

• Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
• Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
• Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

Feb. 9th

Our homework was to create a slide presentation on our taxonomy of learning. We uploaded our power points into Google docs so they could be viewed from our blogs.

Click here to view my Habits of Learning Taxonomy PowerPoint.

ISTE NETS Standards Covered:

• Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
• Evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning.

Feb 4th

Today we created a 30 second video in animoto about ourselves. Click here to see my video.

Our Homework is to create a short power point on habits of learning.

ISTE NETS covered

• Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
• Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
• Model Digital-Age Work and Learning

Feb. 2nd's Class

Today we got into groups and worked on two projects that used intel teaching tools. We also signed up for a teacher account in on Animoto.com. We will use the Animoto site next class to create a short video about ourselves.

NETS T Standards covered in today's class:

• Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
• Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
• Model Digital-Age Work and Learning

Today we learned how to create a test in MS Word and upload a document using google docs. Click here to see my trial run.

4 places to save a document

You can save a document on a jump drive.
pro: You are able to save documents and view them on multiple computers.
con: If your jump drive is lost so are all of you documents

You can save a document on google docs
pro: you can bring the document up on any computer with Internet access and also have the option of publishing it as a web page.
con: If the computer you are using doesn't have Internet access you cannot view or print you document.

You can save a document to your desktop of your computer
pro: It is easy to access and located conviently on your desktop.
con: The document will only be located on the desktop you saved it on. You will not be able to view the document on multiple desktops.

You can save the document on your network drive.
pro: You can access that document on any computer located within that particular network.
con: You can not access the document outside of the Fairmont State or other networks.

ISTE NETS standards covered:

• Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
• Demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations.

Electronics Documents Jan. 26th

Today we learned how to chat with Professor Pierce and our classmates within our gmail accounts. We also watched a youtube video on the benefits of delicious.com, and video on using google spreadsheets. We used google documents to create a resume. Click here to view my resume in progress.

iSTE NETS standards covered:

• Collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation
• Communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital-age media and formats.
• Model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning.

Jan. 21st's Class

I was only 2 minutes early for class today and I still didn't get a computer. It looks like I will be waking up earlier to make a run for a desktop come Tuesday morning. Today the class learned how to create our own blog and place links on our posts and pages. The class also took the an atomic survey (which i took after class). The last thing the class did was take a blog address survey, which I am about to take myself.

ISTE NETS Standards covered:

• Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

First Day of Class

In Education 2201 on January 19th 2010 we:

• Went over the introduction to the class
• Created a Gmail account
• Created a Yahoo/Delicious account
• Tagged course page and teachers blog to Delicious account
• Reviewed the final exam questions
• Took ITC survey

Click Here to view my Education 2201 homepage.

I think this class will be pretty fun and be very helpful in my future teaching career.

ISTE NETS Standards

• Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
• Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
• Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.