Where The Sun Shines

2nd Lesson Plan Outline

2004-11-22T15:08:00.000-07:00

iMovie Civil Rights History Project
I will create a lesson on the Civil Rights Movement with an English teacher, (Hailey Broadhead) mainly focusing on key people and events involved. The students will read a novel about the Movement (Mississippi Trial, 1955) and use the perspectives they gained from it to create an iMovie presentation on what they learned. The iMovie will have a brief discussion of the book and an outline of the key people and events involved during the Civil Rights Movement. This will be for an 11th grade History class. This lesson will satisfy the Utah Curriculum US History Standard:
Standard 9 "The students will understand the emergence and development of the human rights and culture in the modern era."

Objective 1 "Analyze how the civil rights movement affected United States society."
Some ethical issues I will need to consider will be whether all students can have easy access to iMovie, and whether the information, pictures, and video clips they use are copyrighted. I can accommodate by allowing classtime for students to go to the computer lab to work on their projects. I will also need to give a brief lesson on what pictures and information on the internet is usable.

Ethics in Teaching History

2004-11-12T11:41:00.000-07:00

Sounds like there's a lot to know about copyrights. I was hoping I could have my students read some historical novels in class, but I'll have to double check that it's legal. My history teachers did when I was in high school but who knows if they knew anything about copyrights. Same thing with movies. I suppose I'll need to be more careful with having students look things up on the internet as well. There's a lot of stuff out there that can get them in trouble. Kinda krazy that I'll have to teach ethics and proper internet usage in a history class when all I want to do is teach history. Such is life!

Lesson Plan Overview

2004-10-18T13:49:00.000-06:00

I will create a lesson on the American Revolution, mainly discussing pros and cons for the colonists' decision to declare independence. This will be for an 8th grade U.S. History class. With this lesson I will be addressing the Utah Core Standard 5 for 8th grade Social Studies/U.S. History which states "Students will understand the significance of the American Revolution in the development of the United States." Students will use Inspiration to create a concept map detailing the pros and cons for the colonists' decision to declare independence. For an example, I will create a concept map with pictures and basic details of pros pulling the colonists to war on the left side and cons holding them back from war on the right side.

Technology in History?

2004-10-15T13:50:00.000-06:00

I wrote about this once before, but I'll get on my soapbox one more time. It seems to me that most new technologies I hear and learn about are great for science, math, and even language classes. There are a lot out there that a history teacher could use to supplement a lesson but are mostly one-time use kind of activities. The only new sort of technology I can think of that could be used on a regular basis is Power Point Presentation and possibly Inspiration. Anyone know of any others that I am just missing? Perhaps a great site with virtual tours of many different historical sites. Just anything to make history more interesting for today's over-stimulated children who don't get a thrill without blood guts and gore. Anyone? Ideas?

IP&T digital video reflection

2004-10-11T15:47:00.000-06:00

Amy Eddy and Savanna Williamson watched the “Bookends of War” video on using technology in a lesson on Pearl Harbor and also “Why things are where they are” from the NETS Digital Video Library.

In the “Bookends of War” video, we observed that Gail VanDeVerg the teacher is having her Language Arts class create web pages with what they learn about Pearl Harbor from a field trip and guest speakers. They use digital cameras and some sort of web publisher to post pictures of their field trip on a web page. The students are excited about their work because their web pages will be entered in a contest that many people will see. Ms. VanDeVerg teaches the students how to use the technology but doesn't seem to really use it herself in the lesson. They did learn a lot and it was very interactive. They also used group work and other readings to help learn more. There may be a problem in other schools with using digital cameras and letting students use them on their own. The teacher may have to take the pictures and let the students put them on the web page.

In the “Why things are where they are” video, we observed that the students and the teacher were all using technology to learn about Geography. Nancy Haas, the teacher is teaching the students about different ways to teach Geography. She asks them to make a presentation about a particular country and to pay special attention to the people, culture, and environment. They think of questions they would want answered and then present their work to answer those questions. They use Power Point Presentations and laptops to create their projects. The students are all adults and work together in groups a lot. One barrier might be if there are not enough computers for each student. In that case, a teacher could do the project on a classroom level. Teachers could use other technologies such as wiki pages for the students to create web pages or Microsoft Publisher or Quark XPress to make pamphlets about the country.

What to do?

2004-10-06T21:15:00.000-06:00

Hey Brother West, I've tried several ways of getting in touch with my group member for this week's assignment and can't seem to reach her. I'm still waiting on it but I'm leaving for California tomorrow. If all else fails, would it be possible to do the videos on my own and just miss out on the points for group work? Or do you have a suggestion? Just thought I'd let you know.

Meeting this Week

2004-10-05T11:34:00.000-06:00

Hey Amy, for this week's assignment we have to get together and watch some movies online. When could you meet? I could meet Wednesday after 3 or Thursday before 10:30. Let me know which works for you and we can meet in the McKay Computer Lab. Good job on the wikis! See ya later!

Good Plan

2004-09-27T13:10:00.000-06:00

Hey again Crazy A! I guess I'll go ahead and do some quick research on one of those newspaper programs and claim a wiki page for it. If you could figure out what Rick was talking about that sounds great and you could claim and outline a wiki page for that one before class if possible. Then we'll work together to actually finish the wiki pages. Thanks for the ideas Rick and Amy!

New Ideas?

2004-09-24T11:22:00.000-06:00

Hey Crazy A! Have you read Rick's blog about being creative with our wiki technologies? And I guess we need to do two separate ones. I say power point is good if we can't think of anything else. It's pretty well known but I really have no idea of other ideas. Maybe some sort of newspaper program? (I like the idea of creating newspapers in History class). Anybody else out there have any ideas for using technology in history classes? Then we'll claim some wiki pages.

Hey Crazy A!

2004-09-21T13:12:00.000-06:00

I checked out the wiki page and I think for this assignment, we just need to come up with some sort of technology to use in history classes and post everything on the wiki site. I think I read that you like Power Point Presentations. Would you like to do something on that? I guess we need two pages so we can either do one on PPP and one on something else, or we could do one explaining what PPP is and another on how to use it in the classroom effectively. Or of course we could come up with something totally different. Any ideas?

In response to Crazy A

2004-09-20T11:28:00.000-06:00

Yes I know Jeremy Hunter! Not real personally because he's quite a bit older than me. But I was real close with his little sister Julie and I'm still good friends with his other younger sister Janene. Great family! By the way, Bennington is so small that I know pretty much everyone by name, except for the little kids now. I've been gone too long. That's cool that you knew him!

History left in the dust?

2004-09-17T13:26:00.000-06:00

By the way, do any other History teaching majors feel like all this great information about using technology in the classroom is sort of geared to the sciences and languages? I do have a few ideas of how to use technology in History classes, but they're all kind of one-time things. Any ideas about technology I could use every day? Continuously or otherwise?

Bennington

2004-09-17T13:16:00.000-06:00

In response to Rick's question, I am from Bennington. It's a small farm town just north of Montpelier, which is about a half hour north of Bear Lake in the County of Bear Lake in the great state of Idaho! Yeah for small towns!

Reading & New Rules of Thumb

2004-09-13T13:19:00.000-06:00

I read the Roschelle artical and skimmed the other. I've come up with some final rules of thumb for me thanks to blogs from classmates ( http://leeleeap.blogspot.com and http://emd26.blogspot.com )
1- Technology should enhance teacher performance and learning not replace them.
2- Technology should be used to better facilitate higher thinking skills and critical analysis.
3- Technology should understand that some students won't respond to technology and computers and should provide a variety of learning activities at all times.

Rules of Thumb for Technology use in the Classroom

2004-09-11T22:40:00.000-06:00

Use of technology in my classroom must:

~Better facilitate higher order thinking and critical analysis
~Provide information or services that could not otherwise be given through the teacher

Technology in my Education?

2004-09-11T21:37:00.000-06:00

Technology in my elementary and high school career could be defined by the lack of it. I came from a very small high school where there wasn't a lot of money in the system. We did have computers but they were for the sole purpose of the computer classes. Since I'm going to be a history teacher I tried really hard to come up with a time when technology was used in my history classes. The most I could think of was either using overhead projectors or looking up current events on line before class when I forgot to look in the newspaper the night before. I do remember though in my government class during the 2000 elections we went to the computer lab during an open period and used the internet to look up the platforms of each candidate. In this instance, it was a nice tool to get information and pass it along to others, though I don't feel like I learned much more about how to critically analyze the platforms. Maybe if we talked more about what opposing positions on different issues really meant. I'm not even sure I could come up with really great ways to use technology in history classes. Any suggestions?

School Has Started

2004-09-08T13:10:00.000-06:00

And my life has ended. Anyone else feel that way? I'm a Senior now and I'm getting a little burned out and just want to be done. That's not such a good thing considering I want to be a teacher and will be in school until I retire. I guess I'm just sad Summer has ended. I'll miss the late night movies and eating pizza at a park. Life goes on I guess.

Hi! I'm Savanna Sue!

2004-08-25T16:20:00.000-06:00

Hi World! I've just created my blog so I'm still new at this. But for starters... Hi I'm Savanna! I'm currently attending Brigham Young University and majoring in History teaching. I grew up on a farm in Idaho and still think Provo is a big city. I've been married for two wonderful years to a wonderful cityboy from North Carolina. Well, that's good for now. I still need to figure out this whole weblogging thing. Hope you all have a deliciously wonderful day!