Artifact #1
Artifact 1
Story
Pictures Assignment - This is a picture-sequencing lesson in
language arts using computer skills for third graders.
Context
This lesson was created as a part of the media and technology course
that I took during my Block Experience at ASU in the spring of 2001.
Each member of the class completed a Story Pictures assignment, although
we collaborated on the images in small groups of three. It was designed
with several curricular goals in mind, in both language arts and computer/technology
skills.
Impact
The Story Pictures assignment is targeted for students at the third
grade level. It is used as an activity for exploring the elements
of a story in a computer lab setting. It allows students to sequence
images and write creative text that corresponds to them while developing
word processing and computer skills. It is a useful teaching tool, in that
less time is wasted with actual cutting and pasting by hand, and students
enjoy looking at their language arts work in a new format. The goals of
the lesson are aligned with the North
Carolina Standard Course of Study.
Alignment
In developing this assignment, I showed my ability to communicate using
media and technology by designing a web page and using a digital camera
to record images. One reason that I chose a web page as my format, is so
that the activity would be accessible not only to my own students, but
students around the world, via the World Wide Web (Tech.
Competency 11.1 ) The site combines text and pictures with instructions
so that learners with visual and linguistic intelligence will find it comprehensible
(Tech. Competency 11.2) The activity meets
at least two goals in the computer skills curriculum outlined by the North
Carolina Standard Course of study, and that document is linked to this
page (Tech. Competency 10.1 and Tech.
Competency 10.4). I would ask students to do this activity and
others like it throughout the year in order to prepare them for the Computer
Skills Assessment (Tech. Competency 10.5).
The activity is also specific to the language arts curriculum, as it asks
students to work with the elements of a story by sequencing pictures as
they relate to plot (Tech. Competency 11.3).
Students and teachers will be accessing this assignment through the Internet
to experience a language arts activity in a nontraditional format. It therefore
demonstrates my ability to use a variety of instructional strategies in
order to encourage my students’ development (INTASC
#4- see also Artifact 4). Because it
is a nontraditional strategy, students with visual learning styles will
benefit from this approach through the use of images, while more traditional
learning styles will also work well with the written text.