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Burt Turner
08
Project
Summary
Project Description
1. General Overview of the Proposed
Project:
I propose to make for each unit of study at
the Eighth grade level a PowerPoint outline which contains the vital
curriculum.
Each PowerPoint will posses the curriculum
in outline form. Each PowerPoint will posses embedded video clips
to illustrate the concepts.
Each PowerPoint will posses images from the
unit of study. Each PowerPoint will posses relevant primary
documents.
The PowerPoints will be accessible via my
class website.
2. Clear Purpose and Objective:
Students will be able to access vital
curriculum in a concise format via notes, video, images, and primary
documents for each unit of study.
3. Stakeholders: grade level, who will
benefit, who will participate in this project.
Eighth grade Social Studies students will
benefit most, and will submit products for consideration into the
project
4. U.S. History Content Area
All of United States History
5. Outline Describing Content
See New York Core Curriculum Guide for
Eighth Grade
6. Software to be used, internet
materials, contacts, etc.
Microsoft Office PowerPoint,
http://www.thinkbright.org/video/,
http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search,
http://www.teachersdiscoveringhistoryashistorians.com/
7. Level of Student Involvement
Student input will be on an extra credit
basis
8. Evaluation process (include students
when possible)
9. Timeline: how you envision the
project being carried out between start up and conclusion
I envision this project to begin upon
approval, and to be constructed by the end of the 2007-2008 school
year.
TAH Project
Final Reflective Piece
Burt Turner
Alfred-Almond Central School
Grade 8
My project was intended to make my
core curriculum more accessible for students. To do this, I created
a website for my classroom. After the website was produced, PowerPoint
versions of classroom notes were created, and then linked. By doing
this, classroom notes were accessible for home, benefiting students who
were absent, or who wished to revisit them before a test for
review. The aim of creating a website, linked to core curriculum, that students could
get on at anytime, was to increase resources available to my
students.
Creating a website was not as
difficult as I feared. After receiving about an hour’s training
from our computer teacher here at school, I felt comfortable constructing on my own.
After deciding on images, backgrounds, font colors and sizes, I was
ready to link the notes. The notes used were a combination of overhead
notes I had used in the past, and student-produced extra credit
assignments. Student productions were modified as needed. Linking the notes to
my website was not challenging.
What was challenging was finding a
way to include embedded video clips in the notes, without violating
copyright laws. There were few, if any, examples of clips less than thirty
seconds in length that were useful. I eventually came to the
decision that the notes linked to my website would not include the embedded clips that the
notes given in class do.
While I am proud of what has been
produced, it took me only a few days to realize improvements could
be made. Plenty of holes in the curriculum remain open on my website. It is
my desire to fill them in the coming months. Additionally, I
believe more historical images and primary sources would offer life to the
website. I continue to search for ways to involve more than just
the most ambitious students in the site’s production.
The site is far from great, but it is step in
the right direction, the direction being the addition of resources
to the arsenal of my students.
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Please view this website at:
http://www.aacs.wnyric.org/
Go to Jr./Sr. High Web Pages
Click on Mr. Turner
Click on Social Studies 8
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