Curriculum Page Launched

http://pointofinstruction.pbworks.com/w/page/38238654/Course:-Computer-Applications-in-Business-2

AR7 It's Never Too Late for a Good Rubric Lesson

Rubrics are not my cup of tea. I started a project similar to my digital storytelling book on a webquest website called, www.zunal.com almost a year ago, but STOPPED in my tracks trying to create a good assessment tool. I have many resources whether on the web or from previous classes like a curriculum and assessments class I took last year, but still STOPPED in my track. I even hold onto simple rubrics from my kids’ projects that I like or that could be useful for business education projects. I like anything Kathy Schrock, looked through her links for collaboration, web rubrics, ed tech, there is so much. So I had to do some research, more or less, let it all soak in to work with knowledge I already have about assessments. I looked at my Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy, which charts key terms in the cognitive domain and references them to verb or doing terms.

http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom's+Digital+Taxonomy#Synopsis:-Bloom's Digital Taxonomy - Quick Sheets.

I wrote down all the standards for the project and tried my best to connect them with the cognitive domain. I also wrote down SWBAT, which means Students Will Be Able To… and referenced the curriculum framework for Computer Applications in Business 2, for what the students will be able to do, called the benchmarks or outcome. I created a rubric for the group and individual projects.
This was not only a reflection for a project, but my reflection to post my rubric to my Zunal page before it is too late. When I do I will post the link here on 21st Century technology Talk.

AR 6 Digital Storytelling Project

Involving students in projects is a student-centered learning activity and a great return on our investment as educators. Whether called a webquest or a digital storytelling project, it uses guided resources on the World Wide Web for an organized scavenger hunt. Dr. K. said it; if tomorrow’s workers will be evaluated on actual performance, then why are today’s students continually evaluated with tests? I am a graduate from UCF in the Technical Education and Industry Training program and I have been taught that we learn by doing. I do not want to quote what material is chosen for the FCAT exam and why, but to say what I think I know is the FCAT bases its material on critical thinking skills pulled from career development. Watching Dr. Gunter ‘s video was awesome. Thinking out-of-the- box and having her students interact with the environment , solve problems, and then follow the trash had a huge impact on the students. As stated in the textbook for this graduate course curriculum pages used well will provide valuable information that is relevant to your lesson. Creating a student example is a very comprehensive way to see how structured the curriculum page activity was. Completing our curriculum page and student example of a digital storytelling project was a long journey. Proudly, I say this at 11:10 PM, Friday night.

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AR 5 Curriculum Pages

Now let’s see, in the last 10 months I have created a webquest at the end of my internship in July 2010-still to be published. I created a webpage for my Adult Education Computer Lab students. This page has resources for basic education in mathematics, and language. I created an “About Me” page using a Google Profile and revised my technology blog that I wasn’t keeping up with until now.

These activities have worn out my fingers and brain.

Now it’s time for me to create a wiki curriculum page. I am exhausted. Wouldn’t you think the self-paced training I attended last summer for a Learning Management System called “Desire 2 Learn” at Daytona State College would get me ready for this curriculum page. It is all coming back to me. The reason colleges use LMSs is to give teachers a new way to present specific curriculum objectives and relevant material to students in a more visual and immediate way. Both face-to-face and online instructors can use this form multimedia for teaching. We learned that technology integration also called curriculum integration is the combination of all technology parts (Teaching Discovering, Computers: Integrating Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom; Shelly, Cashman, Gunter, Gunter).

My curriculum page is called, “point of instruction”, meaning putting students in the computer lab and technology at the teachers’ and students’ fingertips (Teaching Discovering, Computers: Integrating Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom; Shelly, Cashman, Gunter, Gunter).

Before I creating my curriculum pages I made a sketch of the widgets, listing the categories for Computer Applications of Business. I associate the curriculum page to the LMS I learned and still need to organize the information better. That is what is also great about technology at is at your fingertips. You can edit, edit, edit and tomorrow edit some more. I am looking forward to exercising and stretching for my figures and brain more while working on this activity. And think about how I will develop this into a digital storytelling project.

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