My final project "Let's Tell Their Stories: Famous Vermonters" is about providing students with another way to show their learning, through digital storytelling using WeVideo. Initially I started developing my final project on a Google Doc, but then decided that I wanted to present it in a Google Site. Here is the Site.
I have been working with a fourth grade class who is studying Vermont, and their culminating project in the spring is to do biographies, so I decided to do a project that I would be able to implement later in the year. I wanted to make sure the teacher I am currently working with would be able teach the project comfortably. I wanted to make sure the video project didn't limit student creativity, I think it's important we give them choice on what they wanted to create, as long as it met the exceptions of showing their learning about the person. I had fun developing this project and I am exciting to work with students in the spring on it.
It was good to create a project from start to finish. Perhaps because my position is usually just working with others on creating projects, I don't usually see the whole thing through, so it really made me step back and think about every step. I initially tried a couple different ways to develop my introduction video, because I didn't want to be on camera, but in the end decided I would just "get over it" and record myself. Of course it took many "takes", but in the end I was satisfied with what I produced.
I decided to put it all together in a Google Site, because I like the way you can visually structure things. I tried to keep in mind who my audience would be, and I knew that simpler would be better.
It's great that I have something I will be able to use later on this year!
It was good to create a project from start to finish. Perhaps because my position is usually just working with others on creating projects, I don't usually see the whole thing through, so it really made me step back and think about every step. I initially tried a couple different ways to develop my introduction video, because I didn't want to be on camera, but in the end decided I would just "get over it" and record myself. Of course it took many "takes", but in the end I was satisfied with what I produced.
I decided to put it all together in a Google Site, because I like the way you can visually structure things. I tried to keep in mind who my audience would be, and I knew that simpler would be better.
It's great that I have something I will be able to use later on this year!
