Smore
I chose to use this article because I loved learning about Smore! I found it so incredibly easy to use and technology friendly. I ended up having my Clothing 2 students create a Smore for their Textile Reports instead a traditional PowerPoint, which they loved! It was awesome to see how you can use this not just for it's purpose of a newsletter to send home to parents, like I originally did, but for online reports and flyers. I also used this as a way to promote our International Club Pot luck dinner coming up, and I learned that you could tweet out the link. I put it on my school twitter page, and then tried opening it myself and saw how user friendly it is with your phone! I was even able to see how much traffic the flyer had gotten. I would like to use this when we having baking or cooking competitions at school, and will try to use it for our last Spring Baking Championship my students did yesterday in class. I think it will be a neat way to show pictures and announce winners.
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Tell Me In A Graphic
I chose the Tell Me in A Graphic assignment for this course because of how much I felt this assignment wasn't a good one for me. What I mean is, I felt that this assignment was way to easy and honestly a waste of my time. I am very well versed in creating graphics using Google so to me this took less than 5 minutes it seemed. I could however see how this could be used in teaching my students how to create a graphic, but then again I do not see when I would have my students use this. We struggle as a school to have access to computers since we are not a 1 :1 school yet. I often find it just to be easier having students draw, cut and clue to create projects like this. During this course I found myself creating or doing activities that I could sometimes see using in my classroom on a daily basis. One that sticks out to me was creating a graphic. That assignment took me maybe a total of five minutes, and found myself thinking why was I doing this in a grad class? Perhaps it is because I am very familiar with Google Docs and the ability to create images, but it honestly felt like an assignment that was pointless. However, when I stop to think about how I could use that to teach students who do not know how to make their own graphics, I can see the value in it. I could see myself using that when my students create their own bakery, I could have them make their own logo to share.
Screencasts also changed my life! I am using them like crazy now. I feel like I can finally let my students use that a resource instead of me. I created a screencast on how to print at school, and all I had to do was link the video to Google Classroom and let the students watch and learn. A fellow teacher made one on reformatting recipes that I can not wait to share with my students. I felt the audio recording was not as beneficial to my place as a teacher, just because I couldn't see myself using that in the classroom. It was nice to listen to myself read, so I could get an idea of the speed and fluency of my voice. But to be completely honest, I do not see myself using that in my FACS classroom in the near future. Overall I found this class to be the most useful to me thus far in this program. I found that the assignments were set up very well, and they made sense to me. It was a new idea each week, and one that I could attempt to use in my classroom. Often when I think about using graphic design into my classroom I immediately think of the positive impact any form of graphic has in my CTE classroom. As a FACS teacher, I am always teaching the hands on classes, and students who take these classes, are often visual learners. Students thrive when they can see what the end product is suppose to look like, whether thats a cupcake or a quilt. They also often love seeing the steps to recipes or sewing projects as they work.
As being an elective class, I have classes that consist of various types of students. Students with IEP's, ESL students, and student's with other learning disabilities. With that being said, I see the value in incorporating graphics into my daily lessons. So many of these students need that extra help when I am not there to guide them, they can follow images more than my voice at times. In order to better support learners in my classroom, I need to be more selective when choosing graphics. Choosing a few graphics, rather than five, that best represent one idea or thought is more beneficial. As I begin our Dairy Unit in Foods 1, I am already starting to think of how graphics will enhance my lessons. Most students have no idea where dairy products come from, so using various graphics of the sources of milk, cheese, yogurt, etc will be a start. I also plan on having students create a short children's story where they use images to enhance their stories. I am hoping that this will allow students to become more creative, thus enhance their learning. |
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