Blog Post #2 Week 2 Communities

MultiMedia Project

The purpose of incorporating a Multimedia Project is to allow disciplinary curriculum that transforms learning for adolescent students. Multimedia projects give an opportunity to make information highly accessible for learners. Multimedia design can be accessible for students in several forms and allow them have access to multiple ways of learning. Multiple intelligences have the ability to foster growth in mixed media. After much consideration the purpose of my project is to guide students in using multimedia to support their writing skills perhaps using helpful sites such as Glogster. This project will serve as crucial for students to successfully implement because it creates an atmosphere in which students are comfortable interacting and prevents isolation in classrooms.

My rationale for a multimedia project allows for students to reflect on creative ways to process and share their thinking and most importantly convert their thinking to academic writing suitable for college. If students can engage in multimedia project such as Glogster or prezi; they are not only able to collaborate with students and are also communicating literacy and expanding their writing skills.

The first community I joined was “Google Classroom”because I would hope that will it will allow me to understand how to successfully implement student collaboration in order to create a larger project that requires much attention. I am familiar with Google Docs and it offers collaboration between documents. I would like to learn how these documents can be used in the classroom in conjunction with traditional text. I hope that the Google Classrooms community will aid in helping me create mini lessons and teach skills using technology. Mixed media  requires students to be accountable for work in a much more intricate manner.

In my classroom when students don't complete their work it usually results in a zero; however when implementing mixed media projects in the classroom students need each opportunity to successfully complete a portion of their project to ensure a greater outcome since every day builds towards a final creation. This will aid my struggling writers and motivate those who dread writing.

Multimedia will help support  writing and literacy in my class by engaging students in cognitive thinking. I would like for Students to make Web to world connections that are relevant and useful to their task of writing. The student centered approach motivates students to pursue their own interests in learning. Although I would prefer to make the Multimedia project conducive to the unit being taught. I would like for the common core English standards to be exemplified in the media project students engage in; this way skills they are important to learn in the classroom can also be exhibited in technology students use for integrating classroom material and media.

Goal: I would like for students to implement a multimedia project and use it to enhance their cognitive skills when teaching students new concepts. Currently I am teaching a unit on the American Dream and often notice that students struggle reading the novel The Great Gatsby and writing about the text. It is often difficult for students to engage themselves in text when isolated or at home. They also struggle thinking critically and using text to support their writing. By combining digital media and writing, I might be able to draw students into writing who do not normally participate  in the writing process. By joining the Classroom Community “Educational technology and mobile Learning” I can learn about ways to incorporate technology and even perhaps go to the lengths of having a paperless classroom. This community has very helpful and informative ways to engage in voice based activities and I would like to implement some strategies with the ELA Standards.  Multimedia projects are a way for students to achieve high self-esteem, and  my goal is to increase their ability to function as self-directed learners so they can teach each other.

By joining the community “English Language Teaching and Learning” I can learn how to specifically incorporate technology into English lessons and create literacy lessons that help students master the skills that would be needed to pass their standardized exams.

Joining these communities would assist me with my goals of using media to improve student literacy and using technology to exceed ELA standards because the communities provides methods and ways to engage student in active writing. Because student writing is a struggle and often needs to be excessively scaffold-ed I hope to implement a design that will improve writing skill while effectively meeting my learning objective.