create newsletters, hall passes, business cards, etc. You have
also used PowerPoint to create a seating chart and Excel to create
a pictograph and an attendance/grade book record.Your remaining
tasks for the Productivity Tools Project are create a worksheet and
write a reflection on using productivity tools in teaching and learning.
PART ONE: FINDING A WORKSHEET
To find a worksheet to customize, there are two useful websites:
Discovery School Teaching Tools and Education World. Another
interesting place to find a "worksheet" is at Vicki Blackwell's website.
Just make sure that you select a worksheet that can be used for your
subject area/grade level. Don't just print out a worksheet that you
find - make sure to customize it.
PART TWO: WRITING YOUR REFLECTION
The final portion of your assignment (worth 30% of your grade) is the
reflection. Here's an example of what your reflection/webpage should
look like. Here's how you go about doing it:
Go to GooglePage. Open the page you created for productivity tools.
On this page, include links to each of your productivity tools objects
(saved as pdf files - I'll show you how to do this in class today). Give
an explanation for each of your artifacts, what you learned in the
development of the artifact, and how it could be used in a classroom.
You'll also need to include at least 3 screenshots of your different
objects (I'll show you how to do this today).Then, on the same
webpage, find 3 or 4 lesson plans and explain in detail the types of
activities students can do using productivity tools. Your discussion
and specific descriptions should focus on activities at a LoTi level
of 2 or greater. Make sure to publish the page when you are
finished.
The easiest way to go about completing this portion of the
assignment is to first talk in general about the products you
created - what you learned while creating them and how they could
be used by a teacher in your subject area. Then, locate 3 or 4 lesson
plans that use the productivity tools and discuss them in detail.
The focus of this portion of the reflection is on the ways students can
use the tools at a LoTi level of 2 or higher. There are two good places
to go to find sample lessons that use productivity tools:
1. Georgia Learning Connections
select your grade level, select "technology integration" for the subject.
Click the "Search QCC button". Then click the "Productivity" link
2. Microsoft Lesson Plans
Remember that lower grade levels may use tools like Graph Club
(for spreadsheets/graphing) and KidPix (for multimedia presentations)
instead of Excel and PowerPoint - but you can use these as examples
for your reflection. Don't forget that all of this goes onto the
Productivity Tool page with links to the objects you created.
3. iWork in the classroom
This website provides the lesson plan ideas for using keynote and
pages in Macintosh computer
FOR TUESDAY (Sep. 19):
- All portions of your productivity tools project are due at the
beginning of class on Tuesday. You will publish a web page
with links to pdf versions of all 9 objects and at least 3 screen
shots, and with a written reflection before the beginning of
class. You will email me your Productivity Tool URL to my email
at yichunhong@gmail.com
(SUBJECT of the email: Productivity Tool_your name) - Hand in the evaluation form with your name printed, this
form will be returned to you after grading. - Preparation for iMovie project
1. Reserve mini-DV camera
We are starting our iMovie project next week. You need to go
ahead and reserve cameras for the project. Please form groups
of 3 or 4 and reserve cameras for your group by the end of the
week. The reservation can be made in rm 232. When you check
out the mini DV camera, please make sure that you have your
student ID with you. You have 5 business days to keep the
item that you check out. So, if you check out the DV on next
Wednesday, you will need to return the camera back to OIT
at 8am on Thursday the latest.
2. Brainstorm your topic for iMovie project
Please discuss with your group members of what grade level/
subject area that you want to focus on for your target
audience in the iMovie project.
See some sample projects and another good sample here to get
your brain chruning about your own ideas.
