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Scenario

Lesson Plan
Idea: Film the students putting on a play of nursery rhymes
Grade: Kindergarten
Content Area: Reading

Prior:
Read the nursery rhymes that will be reenacted
Show a video of the nursery rhymes if they are available to give the students an example
Break students up into groups
Assign roles to play
Bring in costumes and props

During:
During center work, one of the centers will be the "Performance Center"
Each group will get a chance over a couple of days to practice and have their video recorded
I will then add sound effects and music to the videos and edit any film not needed.
At the end of the week all of the videos will be shown in class.


Challenges:
Having the students memorize their lines

Video Group Project

I really enjoyed working with the video camera project. I think that working with the video camera was really easy and uploaded well. The hard part was definitely editing it. It wasn't that it was too hard but it was most definitely tedious work, especially since we filmed out of order therefore we had to do alot of cutting out of the middle. I think that we did a great job on our video and worked together well. It was quite embarassing filming myself eating in the cafeteria but it turned out really well. I don't know if I would change anything about our final project, I was very pleased with the way it turned out. It was comical but got the intended point across. I think that video editing is something that could be used in the classroom setting. Although it is time consuming and I don't see myself being able to do one very often but I think it would be interesting to do one every so often to change something up.

Freshman 15 Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A5BrtaX39I

Smartboard

I feel as though through the interactive smartboard activities students are more engaged than just sitting and looking at a chalk board or listening to the teacher lecture. Its a way to get the students out of their seats and actually work with the lesson at hand. At first the technology was difficult to get used to. There is so much that you have to remember while putting the lesson together that can get somewhat frustrating. But as I began to work with the software more and more, I began to get a  better grasp on the small things that needed to be done to be sure the way in which I wanted to execute my lesson worked effectively. At times I could see through the use of the smartboard to cause children to get somewhat out of control and overly excited with the use of the smartboard. Also techological difficulties occur all the time, even when you are well educated and used to using the specific type of technology that your entire lesson could be thrown off. When incorporating any type of technology in a lesson, a back up plan is always necessary which can cause teachers to want to advert from the use of technology because it can in the end cause much more work than necessary. I think smartboard can be incorporated into so many different types of lessons its hard to be specific as to which lesson I would use it for. I wish that I learned to work with the smartboard software before many of my education classes because I think I could have used it effectively in all of them in some way.

Software Skills

I really enjoyed doing the Software Productivity Project. Once I began working with it a little bit it became so easy to me, and actually fun to work with. I really love the newsletter. I think the newsletter would be something that I will most definately use and be the most beneficial. I think its a very organized and appealing way for both parents and students. I did a section for the student of the month and I know students would love to see themselves on there whenever it is sent out. And for those students who dont, I made a section for birthdays. I think they were all beneficial tools to learn how to use in the classroom. I could think of multiple ways to use the Inspiration software, especially since I find I have difficulty being organized. When I used Inspiration the first time last year, I absolutely hated it, but once I was taught the shortcuts and ways in which I could make it more interesting I could see myself wanting to use it again. I think each of the software skills can be used in very effective ways. They were definately tools that make things easier and do not take much time at all.