Infographic

Assignment Title: Creating an Infographic


Uses in the Classroom: To use this technology, students could be given lists of data and be asked to create an infographic to display the information. Each student could have a different subject to cover.  It could be very specific, for example, each student could cover a different organ in the body for a biology class, a different disease for health class, or various concepts in math or language.  Many infographics contain statistics and figuring out percentages, ratios, and various ways to display them would require mathematical skills.  Another approach would be to have all students display the same data in different ways on their infographic.  Infographics could be created as a summary of the information in the chapters or sections of a textbook with each student assigned to a different one.  Sharing their infographic with the class could serve as a summary and review.  Skills utilized in this activity would be locating and retrieving for collecting the data. Interpreting, summarizing and comparing would be required to translate the data into a form to be displayed.  Students would be required to organize and create structure for the display.   Designing, planning and producing skills would be used to bring the assignment to completion.

Issues to Consider: Basic computer skills would be required as well as an application to create the graphic display.


Copyright: The infographic example was created by the blog owner using Easelly @ www.easel.ly. The following sources were used for the data displayed:

U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics,Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2000, Fall 2005, and Fall 2010, Completions component. Retrieved from:http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d11/figures/fig_16.asp?referrer=figures

U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics.(2012) Digest of Education Statistics, 2011 (NCES 2012-001), Chapter 3. Retrieved from: http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=37

Instructional Video

Assignment Title: Instructional Video




Uses in the Classroom:  This activity could be for any grade level.  Kindergartners could be recorded showing how to complete a simple task such as, drawing a simple picture, showing how to tie shoes, describing and showing how to swing on a swing or how to clean up after an activity.  This would promote the skills of describing, identifying, naming, summarizing and explaining. The younger grade levels would not experience the part of editing the video on the computer, but would gain some insight on how videos are made and would allow them to experience of explaining or demonstrating how something is done.  Older students could work alone or in groups and instruct more complicated activities using advanced technology appropriate to the level of experience.  Older students would utilize the same skills as the younger students and also the skills of designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing, devising and making.

Issues to Consider: Video recording technology would be needed for simple projects.  More complicated projects would require editing software.


Copyright: All images and video were taken by and are property of the blog owner.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxyIGApkJuk

Screencasting

Assignment Title: Business Card Assignment




Uses in the Classroom: This activity could be for 7^th or 8^th graders in an introductory business class as part of a lesson on business promotion.  It could also be utilized as a single assignment for 4-6 grades as a Language or Computer Skills lesson.  Skills that will be developed by completing this assignment include recognizing, identifying, naming, (when deciding what category of business card designs would best depict their business type) comparing and outlining (when deciding between several chosen designs and deciding what information should be included on the card), and designing, planning, and producing as they take the project from start to finish.

Issues to Consider: This assignment requires basic computer skills.  Internet access is needed.


Copyright: This presentation was created by the blog owner using Snapz Pro X at vistaprint.com (Vistaprint 2001-2013).  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6PaSGDIYDY

Digital Storytelling

Assignment Title: Digital Short Story




Uses in the Classroom:  As part of a mentoring program, fourth grade students will create a digital story using Animoto or (a similar program) that they will share with first grade students. The older students will select photos from home or choose from pictures the teacher has provided or preselected to use in their story. Next they will invent a short story based on their pictures and then design, construct and produce a photo essay to go along with the story. The stories will be viewed by the younger students who will then be asked which stories they liked and why.  This will allow the younger students to identify, retrieve and describe the stories they have viewed. Interpreting, summarizing and comparing are additional skills the younger students may utilize in this exercise.

Issues to Consider: The use of Animoto requires a subscription which may be purchased by the school or teacher.  Other similar programs may be available at no cost. The students creating the stories would need to be competent in basic computer skills.


Copyright: The presentation was created by the blog owner.  All photos were taken by and belong to the blog owner.  Animoto.com (2013 Animoto, Inc.) was used to create presentation. All music was provided by Animoto.  

http://youtu.be/CHkwJD4wYzM