Course Reflection

I am excited to start using the projects that we created in this class with my own students!

The digital story was one of my favorite projects that I have done so far with the MET program. It was a long process, but the end product was worth it.  I am planning on creating digital stories as a second quarter project with my students’ narrative essays.  They will be doing the same writing process that we used with this class to help develop their ideas and stories.

The infographic was a challenge for me. I wasn’t sure where to create it and I wanted to use something that my students would also have access to.  I felt like I needed more time, but it may have just been that I wasn’t familiar with it and wasn’t sure how or where to create it. My students started on their own infographics this week on Native Americas, so I am excited to walk them through the process and see how they turn out. I am having them do a rough draft of their infographic before they go to the computer to create it. (Here are the guidelines that I gave my 5^th graders. I will link the rubric if I get it done this week.)

Infographic

Wow, this project was a challenge for me! I often tell my students they are "thinking too hard" and this was a perfect example of that. I was not familiar with this type of information graph and had a hard time figuring out where to create it. In the end I decided to go with MS Word since I was familiar with the program. After I got started, it really wasn't as hard as I was making it. I chose to do my infographic on Native People of North America because that is what we are studying in social studies. I think this would be a great end of unit project for them to complete on a tribe or to have them use the infographic to compare two tribe.