Digital Stories

What? - Today we worked on our Digital Story all day. Our digital story is about distracted driving and the effect it has on the students we will be teaching.

So What? - Digital stories are a great tool for me right now to learn and connect to the things that I am learning. The stories that are presented to me are usually relate to me more when it is presented in a story format and I really like that a great deal. It is very realistic and relatable to me.

Now What? - This is something that I can use to get my students to truly relate to what I am teaching them. If i present it to them in this meaningful way, they might get even more out of the lesson because it hits closer to home. Not only is it more relatable, but it is also more entertaining for the students. It gives them a change of pace and a new way of learning the same type of information.

Copyrights

What? - Today we learned about the several different laws that there are regarding copyrights and protection of information on the internet. We learned about how to copyright our information through the creative commons website as well.

So What? - To me now this makes me realize that there is a way to copyright some of my information that I want to share with others without them having to ask me for my permission everytime they would like to use it. Today I also learned another resource that I can go to when i would like to access other peoples work. I won't have to worry about breaking any rules because I will know how to access their work without infringing upon their rights.

Now What? - I can help to protect my student from cyber ethic issues by presenting the website to them about how to copyright the items that they produce. I will also help me students by grading them harshly based on copyright standards. I will go over with them how they need to properly site sources and what is available to be used by them.

Vidcast Reflection

Karlie Jensen Mitchell

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10/06/10

Vidcast Reflection

The podcast Patrick and I created is called “Introduction to Muscle Tissue.” This is a topic in both his content, which is Biology, as well as my content, which is health. In my content, which is health, this topic goes a little bit deeper into the body systems than is normally covered, but it is what our biology teacher we are working with wanted specifically.

We thought that this would be an interesting topic for he students in our cooperating teachers class because it shows some real live pictures of the tissues that they are learning about in their class. This is not only just drawings of the histology that they are learning about, but it is provides the students with a realistic image and description of what the students are really doing.

This might be a potential drawback for my health classes because it goes a little bit too in depth. The students might feel a little bit overloaded with information, and they might feel as though it is tedious knowledge that is being presented to them. Although it might be a little bit too in depth, I still think that the students will enjoy and find interest in the information that is being presented to them.

My future plans for this series would be for my students to watch it just as a brief intro to what they would learn about in future classes that go more in depth with the tissues and histology. The students could get excited and have a firm background knowledge that other students might not have when entering those advanced classes. I also intend to use this presentation to show to my students what the muscles that they use everyday actually look like. They will have a hands on view of what happens when they are lifting weights, pumping blood through their heart, and digesting food after a large meal. I think the students will find this information very interesting.