So, I discovered something that I am going to incorporate into my personal teaching practice as well I will incorporate somehow into my action research. So, I am a real fan of those whiteboard videos and I always wanted to create one. I think it appeals to the artistic side of me. I was happy when I discovered how to make them on sites like Powtoon or Animoto. But, that was not enough. Many, of you probably did not know that in one of my former lives I was actually going to come out of school an artist. I started my college career in art school and somewhere along the way I decided to change into (what I thought at the time was more practical) an English major. So, those drawings are something I know I can do with my creativity. The other day, I was thinking about what platform I have not used to make a project in and I came across a video that was much like the one’s in Powtoon. It had an ad at the end that talked about ordering my own set of cutout’s to make videos like that one. And it hit me this is how I am going to make my videos for my Capstone audience.
I can also use this in my personal teaching in a very wonderful and what I feel cool way. I am the technology liaison at my school. With that comes great responsibility of showing and helping all staff realize that the reason their printer is not working has nothing to do with their computer but more with the fact that it is not plugged in. It is also an opportunity to show staff/parents how to make a document in Google docs (or what have you). But, this gives me the freedom to make cool artistic videos that I can save and it saves me time on the backend by instead of me just showing them I can give them the video. Plus, this will work for my students that don’t get it after the 1,000,000,000,000,000th time I taught them how to make a new folder in their Google Drive. So, yeah I look forward to that. For my capstone I have thought about a couple of things but I don’t know if or how these things will work. I have thought about somehow incorporating a video game into teaching my audience about the benefits of a Flipped classroom. I have been fascinated with these super cheap, super small computers that have kept my attention for now a little over a year. I am talking about the Raspberry Pi. I have thought about somehow incorporating one of those things into my project or something/ somehow.
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Joseph Hall
3/17/2017 08:10:51 pm
Adam,
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Zack
3/21/2017 08:46:32 pm
Adam, wondering how you want to incorporate Raspberry Pi? I also did my research on flipped learning, and wondering how you would incorporate it? I think there are plenty of need to knows around that, I have some, and would especially like to know how the tech can be used. I think some videos on how these cpu's function would be engaging to adults. What's your DQ for your capstone so far?
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