Assignment #4-Technology Project

Welcome to Biology Intro Video:


Delicious Page

List of Features:
-Delicious Website
-Storing and Organizing websites that I want to come back to
-Flip Video
-Record Videos
-Upload to Computer
-Edit Clip -Use Magic Moviemaker to create video
-Set song to background

Issues:

-Delicious: Fairly straightforward and easy to use, didn't know how to bundle categories

-Flip Video: Initially I had trouble charging the flip video, but after I finally got it to once, there wasn't an issue after that. The battery life is fairly good, but still dies relatively quickly, and ONLY charges via USB port. Downloading the Flip Video program was fine and straight forward, but for some reason, the program always closes when I try to add a title to my video, so I forfeited adding a title, which isn't a huge deal, but is a nice touch. I also wish that there was a way to record audio with the program to add to the video. There is probably a way around this such as recording your audio bit and uploading it to itunes, and then playing the audio bit as your music background, but this would likely be pretty difficult to get the timing right, and you wouldn't be able to use music at all, unless you recorded it in your audio at the same time.

Importance of Project:
This project was very beneficial in learning how to use the flip video. If given the opportunity in the future, I would definitely incorporate flip videos into my curriculum, helping to bring the real outside world into the classroom, to make lessons more relevant and engaging to students. How I would specifically use this project is to use the Delicious account to help me stay organized in all of my teacher resources and research. I would use the flip video that I made to open up the first day of school, as an introductory attention getter. This video and Delicious combination would also be an example of a project that I would assign to my students later in the semester (if applicable, depending on availability of flip videos). Students would use Delicious accounts to collect and organize research on various topics of biology. They would then choose one area and use the research in order to aid them in making a flip video on the topic to share with the class.

NETS Standards:
This project touches on many of the NETS Standards for both teachers and students (because this project will serve as an example of a project that I will assign my studets during the semester). For the Teachers standards, this project hits on:

1) Facilitate and Inspire Student Creativity
2)Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
3)Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
4)Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

On the Students' side, this project would meet the following NETS Standards:

1) Creativity and Innovation
2) Communication and Collaboration
3) Research and Information Fluency
4) Critical Thinking, Problem Soving, and Decision Making
5) Digital Citizenship
6) Technology Operations and Concepts

Students will work together in groups for this project (NETS standard #2). They will each create a Delicious account where they will store links to information that they research on the group topic online (NETS Standards #3 and #6). Students will use the research that they have conducted to make a video to present the information in an interesting and engaging way (NETS Standards #1, #4, #5, and #6) which they will then present to the class.