After reading chapter four I feel that I would most likely use concept maps in my classroom to help students organize their thoughts when analyzing a script or play. Concept maps can be used to breakdown a character's profile as well. Teaching theatre, I will most likely not be in a regular classroom but instead a theatre so the use of computers will be minimal; however for homework assignments, the computer concept maps will be great.
PowerPoints can be very helpful in the classroom but they can be a distraction as well. I think that if you watch how many sound effects you use as well as what type of slide transitions, fonts, colors, and the amount of information on each slide you should be fine. Students get interested in the " bells and whistles" of your presentation and forget that they need to be paying attention. Streamlining your PowerPoint to being interesting but direct and not overly long will allow more students to stay interested in the presentation material instead of the fancy details.
To conclude chapter four I am excited to incorporate concept maps into my lessons as a study tool and organizing instrument for the students. I also now know to be careful when creating PowerPoints so that I do not lose the interest of my students.
Elizabeth Linkous
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Week Six Assignment
Personal Digital Assistants are sometimes called handheld computers. Students can use them in the classroom to graph data, work math problems, as well as keep multiple files at hand full of information that might be useful to the student.
We use online survey tools to assess knowledge and gather data. The online survey tools help in the classroom by showing teachers if their students retained the information they taught them. Teachers can test their teaching methods by using these surveys. By reading the results a teacher can tell if students responded well or poorly to a certain lesson or method. I think that two good rules for writing good surveys are, number one, make the questions clear. In making sure that the question is clear there is little room for a student to not understand a question which could potentially mess up the results. The second rule in making good surveys in my opinion is to make sure that the questions cover exactly the material you want tested and only that information. If there are more than one topic in a survey and the results showed that students had trouble, you would not know with which topic they had trouble with.
In conclusion I think that online surveys tools are very helpful to the teacher and have many uses. I also believe that we will be seeing more and more schools using Personal Digital Assistants in the classroom, which will help the students with assignments and classwork.
We use online survey tools to assess knowledge and gather data. The online survey tools help in the classroom by showing teachers if their students retained the information they taught them. Teachers can test their teaching methods by using these surveys. By reading the results a teacher can tell if students responded well or poorly to a certain lesson or method. I think that two good rules for writing good surveys are, number one, make the questions clear. In making sure that the question is clear there is little room for a student to not understand a question which could potentially mess up the results. The second rule in making good surveys in my opinion is to make sure that the questions cover exactly the material you want tested and only that information. If there are more than one topic in a survey and the results showed that students had trouble, you would not know with which topic they had trouble with.
In conclusion I think that online surveys tools are very helpful to the teacher and have many uses. I also believe that we will be seeing more and more schools using Personal Digital Assistants in the classroom, which will help the students with assignments and classwork.
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