3.2 Managing Digital Tools and Resources
Candidates effectively manage digital tools and resources within the context of student learning experiences. (PSC 3.2/ISTE 3b)
Artifact: Multimedia Webquest
Reflection:
During the summer of 2015, I created a Multimedia WebQuest for my seventh grade life science students as the final assignment for ITEC 7445: Multimedia Web Design course. Weebly was used as the platform for the WebQuest and I embedded audio clips, video clips, images, and text as a way to differentiate the content and present it in multiple ways. The WebQuest focused on the science concept of dichotomous keys and was created in a way that students could work through the WebQuest on their own with minimal assistance. My contribution for this artifact was the design and implementation of the WebQuest using resources from previous years that I had collaborated on with my 7th grade life science department. I selected the appropriate resources and compiled them all together.
The idea of a WebQuest is to provide students with a task or project to complete that involves multiple steps and sources of information. For this particular multimedia WebQuest, I managed multiple digital tools and resources as I included audio clips, video clips, images, and text all within a Weebly site. By providing these various digital tools and resources, the students were able to experience the content in multiple ways and not be overwhelmed or distracted by extraneous information. For example, as the students learned about Dichotomous Keys, they were provided with a YouTube video that explained the information on a middle school level as well as multiples images of dichotomous keys that they could work through and check their understanding. By embedding all of this content in a Weebly, the students were able to manage multiple tools in an effective manner as they explored the content.
As I worked to complete this artifact, I found that the use of a platform, such as Weebly, worked well as I wanted to integrate multiple sources of information and resources for the students to explore on their own. By having this website as a landing page for all of the resources and content, the students were able to use their time more efficiently and in turn, have a stronger understanding in a shorter amount of time. This is something that I would like to share with some of my colleagues who are also interested in integrating technology more smoothly in their classrooms. In the future, I like the idea of creating just one Weebly website for my class and then having multiple pages or tabs based on the assignment or content. That would provide one uniform link that the students are familiar with instead of having to go somewhere new each time I created something.
The impact of this multimedia WebQuest can be seen in the student learning and achievement of my students. The scores of students on their end of unit assessment on the content found in this WebQuest was much higher than their scores on previous assessments. I feel that having multiple digital tools and resources available during this part of the unit increased their performance and I wish to continue this in the future. This impact would be assessed through achievement on student assessments.
During the summer of 2015, I created a Multimedia WebQuest for my seventh grade life science students as the final assignment for ITEC 7445: Multimedia Web Design course. Weebly was used as the platform for the WebQuest and I embedded audio clips, video clips, images, and text as a way to differentiate the content and present it in multiple ways. The WebQuest focused on the science concept of dichotomous keys and was created in a way that students could work through the WebQuest on their own with minimal assistance. My contribution for this artifact was the design and implementation of the WebQuest using resources from previous years that I had collaborated on with my 7th grade life science department. I selected the appropriate resources and compiled them all together.
The idea of a WebQuest is to provide students with a task or project to complete that involves multiple steps and sources of information. For this particular multimedia WebQuest, I managed multiple digital tools and resources as I included audio clips, video clips, images, and text all within a Weebly site. By providing these various digital tools and resources, the students were able to experience the content in multiple ways and not be overwhelmed or distracted by extraneous information. For example, as the students learned about Dichotomous Keys, they were provided with a YouTube video that explained the information on a middle school level as well as multiples images of dichotomous keys that they could work through and check their understanding. By embedding all of this content in a Weebly, the students were able to manage multiple tools in an effective manner as they explored the content.
As I worked to complete this artifact, I found that the use of a platform, such as Weebly, worked well as I wanted to integrate multiple sources of information and resources for the students to explore on their own. By having this website as a landing page for all of the resources and content, the students were able to use their time more efficiently and in turn, have a stronger understanding in a shorter amount of time. This is something that I would like to share with some of my colleagues who are also interested in integrating technology more smoothly in their classrooms. In the future, I like the idea of creating just one Weebly website for my class and then having multiple pages or tabs based on the assignment or content. That would provide one uniform link that the students are familiar with instead of having to go somewhere new each time I created something.
The impact of this multimedia WebQuest can be seen in the student learning and achievement of my students. The scores of students on their end of unit assessment on the content found in this WebQuest was much higher than their scores on previous assessments. I feel that having multiple digital tools and resources available during this part of the unit increased their performance and I wish to continue this in the future. This impact would be assessed through achievement on student assessments.