Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Project #3: Option #2- Tutorial for Students
OUTBREAK AT THE WATERS EDGE TUTORIAL
Part 1: Outbreak at the Water's Edge is an interactive online game developed by the University of Minnesota that helps people to better understand the principles of Epidemiology and how is works. This game depicts the scenario of a disease outbreak. The game takes you through the process of identifying the location of the disease, possible causes of the disease, and the factors that have contributed to the disease. This game is great because it makes an otherwise boring and difficult to understand principle- Epidemiology- fun for students. This game is an active learning activity that will help the students to internalize the concepts of disease spread. The game takes about 30 minutes. There are several instructions along the way that make the game very easy to follow.
Part 2: Tutorial
Part 3: Reflection
For my project, I created a tutorial explaining how to play the "Outbreak at the Water's Edge" game. The tutorial is a video of myself explaining how to play the game and showing the students how to do it on the computer screen. While recording this video tutorial for my students, I actually learned the technology for creating this type of video myself. I went through a good portion of the game and explained the steps of starting up the game, tips for playing the game effectively, and what the full assignment they were supposed to turn in involved. I learned a lot making this tutorial and actually had fun with it. I think the students will have fun too!
Part 1: Outbreak at the Water's Edge is an interactive online game developed by the University of Minnesota that helps people to better understand the principles of Epidemiology and how is works. This game depicts the scenario of a disease outbreak. The game takes you through the process of identifying the location of the disease, possible causes of the disease, and the factors that have contributed to the disease. This game is great because it makes an otherwise boring and difficult to understand principle- Epidemiology- fun for students. This game is an active learning activity that will help the students to internalize the concepts of disease spread. The game takes about 30 minutes. There are several instructions along the way that make the game very easy to follow.
Part 2: Tutorial
Part 3: Reflection
For my project, I created a tutorial explaining how to play the "Outbreak at the Water's Edge" game. The tutorial is a video of myself explaining how to play the game and showing the students how to do it on the computer screen. While recording this video tutorial for my students, I actually learned the technology for creating this type of video myself. I went through a good portion of the game and explained the steps of starting up the game, tips for playing the game effectively, and what the full assignment they were supposed to turn in involved. I learned a lot making this tutorial and actually had fun with it. I think the students will have fun too!
Blog Post #10: Reflection
I have learned a great deal of very useful things in the class. For most of my life, I have considered myself pretty "technology impaired". After this course, however, I have learned how to make blogs, record and upload videos, make websites, make videos, and all sorts of useful things. I think that knowing how to use all of these technologies will definately make me a better teacher. I will be better able to use technologies to enhance my teaching and help my students to learn and grow. I think I will definatley have a class blog that I will require students to use and comment on. I also think that a video assignment might be very beneficial. I have all sorts of ideas flowing at this point! I think the lesson that confused me the most was the one on all of the copyright laws. I am still pretty confused about some of those. For instance, am I allowed to use songs and other things to make videos to show in my classroom? Would that be okay because it is for educational purposes or would I still only be able to use 10% of each song? I guess my biggest question would have to be, Why are copyright laws so stinking ridiculous? Haha, but I guess that question may never be answered and,if it is, it probably won't help me out any :)
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Blog Post #9: Project 3 Proposal
Target Audience: 10th Grade Health Students
Technology: Outbreak at the Water's Edge
Learning Activities: Outbreak at the Water's Edge is an interactive game made by the University of Minnesota that teaches some how the basics of epidemiology. I will make a tutorial of how to play the game and then require my students to play the game at home and bring me a list of things they learned, what the cause of the disease was, where the cause was coming from, and what contributed to it.
Technology: Outbreak at the Water's Edge
Learning Activities: Outbreak at the Water's Edge is an interactive game made by the University of Minnesota that teaches some how the basics of epidemiology. I will make a tutorial of how to play the game and then require my students to play the game at home and bring me a list of things they learned, what the cause of the disease was, where the cause was coming from, and what contributed to it.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Blog Post #7: Synchronous Chat/Video
For my synchronous video experience I used Google Talk/Video and Video chatted with my husband who is on an internship in Colorado right now. We have actually been familiar with "web-caming" as we call it for quite some time. My husband, Jon, bought me a web cam when we first started long distance dating between Provo and Rexburg. We used it to help us not miss each other quite as much with the distance for a year while we were dating long distance. That is one of my favorite features of the video chatting experience. Being able to see the face of the person you are talking to helps to make it feel like they are closer than they really are. You also have a visual picture which makes things a lot nicer. The difficulties we have experienced are that, depending on internet speed, there are sometimes disruptions in the chat stream or echos in the background. Also sometimes the microphone part won't work unless we hook everything up in a certain order.
I think there are plenty of ways that video chat can be used in education. For instance, in highschool I actually took 3 different college courses from Utah State that were through Synchronous Video. The Professor broadcasted from Utah State and we could watch him on a video in our school in Idaho and respond to him through microphones- kind of like it was a normal class. Also, it could be a way to get in touch with students or to have home visits with their parents without having to actually drive to everyone's houses.
I think there are plenty of ways that video chat can be used in education. For instance, in highschool I actually took 3 different college courses from Utah State that were through Synchronous Video. The Professor broadcasted from Utah State and we could watch him on a video in our school in Idaho and respond to him through microphones- kind of like it was a normal class. Also, it could be a way to get in touch with students or to have home visits with their parents without having to actually drive to everyone's houses.
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