End of Term

Time to dust off the cobwebs and post a new entry. We are at the end of the dead rush to Christmas break, all my grades are in and I have to brag about some the wonderful work that my students created this term. My computers in education class was a great group and their ends of term collections were wonderful. We worked with teaching through narrative and in the integration of animation in to illustrate the points in each lesson. The concept is to develop a story and to work the lesson objectives around that story. My students developed media narratives such as one that featured an alien who needed more oxygen on his planet (a lesson in photosynthesis), one where a young girl who met her brain which then explained the functions of her other organs, and another about a young girl who needed to budget to buy snacks (learning to count money) and so many other really wonderful ideas. A full collection creative approaches that were on target and anything but boring. I think Santa came early this year.