Benefits of Discovery Education GET IT NOW!!
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
BP9_DiscoveryEducation
Have you ever wanted to know what your student’s prior knowledge is in a particular area of content? You can create pre-assessments that have multiple choice or short answer questions. Then you could create post-assessments to measure the content that the students can show that they have learned over the quarter.
You may just want to reinforce one small area that you want to review but there is not time to in class. There are video’s that can be a short little clip or long and comprehensive. You can show them in your classroom or assign them for homework. There are explorations that the students have to match up were things go. For example, what layer of the atmosphere does the space shuttle go. All of the explorations can be replayed until the student can process the information. The explorations are accompanied by a worksheet that the student can fill out. There are assignments that you can custom build to fit your classroom and your student’s abilities or learning styles. There is a quiz builder that you can incorporate video clips into interactive quizzes. Writing prompt builder is also available. An image is shown to the student and then they are provided a prompt, then they can start writing. The assessments come in a couple of different types: standards-based, concept-based, or custom built. If you do, the custom built you just search the topic and possible questions will come up and you can chose which ones you want.
All of that is great; it should convince your school system to purchase the rights to this site for the teachers to use. I believe that I have left the best for last. Each student gets their own account and when they complete an activity online, it immediately is sent to you. From that you are able to tell what that particular concept student knows and what they are struggling. The data can be used to instantly change how and what you are teaching. This tool has become one of my favorites if you cannot tell. It does cost quite a bit but if your county gets a membership, it is worth every penny.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
PE3_iMovie
Here is my finished project. Not a master by a long shot. I took still pictures of my families mini-vacation to Lincoln Caverns and made it into an iMovie. Hope you like it. Could not get it to upload here so I attached a link.
PE2_iMovie
Got all of my photos into a project. Attempting to change pictures in Ken Burns’s style to different zooming. Also I am going to try and add comments, while I still remember what they are. This step was also time consuming. I think it was because you had to go into each picture and modify how I wanted the zoom to go in and out. I maybe too much of a perfectionist for just jumping in, not knowing everything about it right away. Figured out that pictures will not show up in middle window because they are not an event (video clips). Little frustrating. Finally, got everything right and it only took 2 hours for about a 3 minute video.
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