Reflection #9

This week we really worked on our digital story a lot. We finished up getting the pictures that we wanted to use. We also made sure that we had pictures available for all of the landforms and regions that we would be teaching the students about. It was fun to see all of the neat pictures of utah. I also worked on the music. I listened to so many songs!! It was really fun to listen to them and then find the songs that would work best with the digital story. I found probably 10 that I haven't decided on yet but that I think would work good together. We also worked on putting the pictures in to photostory and came up with our questions that we wanted to use in the beginning of the digital story.

Reflection #8

This week we met in class and decided to work on a few things for our upcoming field experience. We ended up deciding on our lessons that will be teaching and then decided what would be the best idea for our digital story. We decided that because we will be teaching geography and maps of Utah, we want to do a digital story with lots of different pictures of Utah's geography. We think that it will really get the kids excited to be able to see all of the many different things that Utah has to offer. We also decided what art projects we wanted the students to do. We are going to do a visual art and also teach them a song about Utah. We think the picture that they will draw for one of the art projects will be really fun. The song is one that we did in our arts class, and it really fits perfect with what we are teaching.

Reflection #6

Hue, Value, & Intensity

Standard 2

The student will analyze, reflect on, and apply the structures of art.

Objective 1
Analyze and reflect on works of art by their elements and principles.

a. Describe the three properties of color: hue, value, and intensity.

We chose to pick Visual Arts because we thought creating a vidcast would be a fun way to look at art. We chose the paintings in the vidcast by using a list of painting and artists at the bottom of the 6^th grade visual arts core. The paintings are for that age and are good to teach the things that they learn in their respective grade. I also think the students will have more fun and be more interested in the paintings by watching a vidcast then just showing a painting in front of the class.

This podcast connects to many of the NETS standards but the one that fits it the best is:

1: Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments.

Teachers: promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.

This podcast connects to many of the INTASC standards but the ones that fit the best are:

2. Planning curriculum and designing instruction to enhance student learning

A. Demonstrate knowledge of content.

C. Design and articulate instruction aligned with Utah Core Curriculum standards.

E. Use appropriate resources to facilitate individual student learning.

Potential drawbacks for the series in my future classroom could be that they vidcast is boring to some of the students. They also might not learn well listening to someone on a video where as if the teacher was instructing in front of the classroom, the students could raise their hand when they have a question. Also the vidcasts are more time consuming then just showing a painting to the class, so depending on the time available it might not be realistic to use a vidcast.

My future plans for the series of vidcasts would be to create some more vidcasts and I’m sure with time I would be able to get faster and know what works best on what to say for the students. I think this is a great way to teach many topics though so I definitely plan on continuing to use vidcasts in many ways.