Artifact # 9
Competencies:
Competency 10.5 "The NC Computer Skills Assessment."
Competency 11.1- "Use technology in the discipline/subject for learning and as a medium for communications"
Alignment with INTASC Standards:
This artifact aligns with INTASC Standard
2 because allowing students to complete web page similar to this one
will allow the teacher to evaluate student performance socially through
peer interaction and cognitively through their creativity. It provides
opportunities for students to assume responsibility for the product and
image of their work and allows the teacher to assess prior computer knowledge
through their use of Netscape Composer. It also aligns with INTASC
Standard 4 because it encourages students to assume different roles
in the instructional process by allowing them to become creator for a day.
It introduces multiple teaching strategies to get students engaged in the
assignment at hand.
Context:
This web page was composed on Netscape Composer and serves as a tool
for
teaching students how to use the internet to demonstrate their knowledge
in the classroom. After choosing an object and coming up with a creative
way to use this object, I created a web page to demonstrate the use of
the object. I also created a link to a page that will assist other
teachers on ways of constructing a similar lesson and a link to a page
that will assist students in creating their own web pages to advertise
their modern inventions. The purpose of this activity is to give
students hands on experience with working digital cameras and creating
web pages. The web page serves as a model to demonstrate to students
how to use a particular item to form a new invention and using their creation
to create a web page to share you item with others.
Impact:
Students will be encouraged to use their imagination to the fullest
when constructing a web page similar to onw I have created. Students
can work with partners to discussion the items and the inventions that
they are creating. Allowing students to create an advertisement for
their invention and placing this on the web will give students the computer
skills to create web pages and use digital cameras to demonstrate their
understanding and work on class material. The web page can serve
as a fun activity for students and an easy assessment tool for teachers
to use to gain an understanding of students' computer skills. Students
can also be encouraged to create links to help others navigate around their
invention page. Doing this activity will give students a feeling
of accomplishment in sharing their creations with others through the web.
It meets competency 11.1 because it allows
students to use technology as a means of communicating what they are learning
in the classroom. It meets competency 10.5
because it allows the teacher to test students' computer skills through
the use of Netscape Navigator.