Story Board Part A

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It looks like this week, we each have two papers to write as well as do our reading reflections. In addition, we have our collaborative story board (part A) due on FRIDAY. We should start collaborating about this as soon as possible. What times work best for everyone to communicate? I am available in the mornings until about noon/one o'clock and again in the afternoon and evening. I am pretty flexible! Would you be interested in working on a google document to complete this assignment? Then, when it comes time to submit it, one group member can download the google document as a word document, save it to their computer, and then submit it. I can do this if you guys would like? I will start a google document and send it / share it with you shortly.

Digital Stories

Good morning!

For this week, we each have to create a digital story. Post your idea or theme/concept below so that we can make sure not to overlap one another in terms of what our stories are about.

Taylor - Types of Sources to use when gathering data on their historical figure

Bethany - A Visit to a Museum

Amanda - Identifying artifacts from the historical figures lifetime and their material of origin.

Revised Concept Map (Assignment II, Part B)

To see an enlarged version of the revised concept map, please click on the image.

Above is the image of our revised concept map for Assignment II, Part B. In this concept map, we organized the different components of the project from teacher planning to implementation of the project (student planning, student research, and product creation), to formative assessment during the project and technology implementation. Additionally, we added on various pieces of the project that we did not have included in our original concept map within each category.

Draft: Revised Concept Map

Hello!
I have re-worked our concept map, included the suggested additions, categorized the stages of the project, and reorganized it. Let me know what you think of this draft! I will gladly make any changes (additions, deletions, etc.) as you see fit.
*One thing I was unsure of was how many days we were providing for students to do each component. I know we decided on four days of research, but beyond that I wasn't sure. For student planning of the event, prop/artifact creation, and costume creation, how much time should we permit?
*Did we want to include a piece on summative assessment?

March 5th - March 19th

Hello!

Are either of you going anywhere for Spring Break? If not, are either of you interested in possibly working ahead this week on the following week's assignments? It looks like we will have a reading reflection, a revised concept map, and each a lesson plan to do that week. I don't mind remaking the final revised concept map since I am familiar with the program. Ideas for what we should revise from our original concept map? For the lesson plan, write below what it is you will be doing and a small description so we each know who is doing what exactly so as not to repeat anything.

Concept Blog Ideas:
To Remove:

I noticed that there are kind of two separate things for the prop/artifacts segment. Should we combine these somehow?

To Add: Technology (what are students doing their project/research on? - e.g. Google Drive); Formative assessment (ideas for it too);

where it says types of sources, I think we should add the types of sources. Right now it just says biography vs autobiography. Maybe we should add things like, newspapers (microfilm), vital records, census records, books about an event or the town, etc.

--I agree. When I said biography vs. autobiography, I was thinking just so students would discern they are different and to determine which they were writing for their projects. I think those sources should definitely be added on.
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Please review this list of items to ADD to the revised concept map and/or move to different categories. Please make suggestions/corrections.

• Technology
• Google Drive
• Cloud Storage
• Online Project Space
• Integrate Podcasts - idea: each student will be interviewed as their historical figure for a podcast?

• Formative Assessment
• Exit slips
• Milestones
• Ongoing observation
• Participation
• Engagement

• Artifacts
• Realistic
• Painting, model, paper mache, sketch, etc.

• Props
• Fake facial hair/wigs/makeup
• Clothing
• Furniture

• Allotted work time - for each component?

**What do you think of organizing the concept map around the different stages of the project? Planning, implementation, assessment, etc. so there is a more organized flow?

Lesson Plan 2:
Taylor: Data collection on how old each student's historical figure was when they were most active / significantly contributing to Kalamazoo's history (in brackets of 10 - e.g. 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s etc.)

Bethany: Data collection on where each student's historical figure was from PRIOR to settling in Kalamazoo - to see how far and wide people came to be a part of Kalamazoo's community?

Amanda:

Artifacts from the lifetime of each student's historical figure. What were the artifacts? What materials were used in the creation of the original artifact? (This will help the students with the creation of their own artifact replicas, in making them realistic and relevant.)