Quick recap of my GAME plan:
Students are going to create commercials to demonstrate a number of components including their ability to target an audience, skill in choosing and employing rhetorical appeals, scripting, storyboarding, filming and editing. Once all of this is complete, the students will be competing for best commercial.
Students are going to create commercials to demonstrate a number of components including their ability to target an audience, skill in choosing and employing rhetorical appeals, scripting, storyboarding, filming and editing. Once all of this is complete, the students will be competing for best commercial.
We are still working in class on some of the persuasion (in
this unit it is tied to the colonial American writers), and the students are
getting really good at picking up examples of ethos, pathos, and logos in
texts, commercials, and movies. (Guilty secret, today they had their choice of
movies since it was the day before break and many of their classmates were
gone. Once the movie started, they had to identify an argument presented in the
film, and defend the claim with examples of ethos, pathos, and logos. They
thought they were getting off easy!)
I have done all of the parts of this commercial project
before, but am looking to raise the standard for the commercial, which leads me
to the competition. This is where I am a little stuck. If they vote live and in
class, peer pressure says a lot. If we present to a third party, that is
skewing the vote. I want to do the voting electronically or online, but have
yet to find a site that I really like. Suggestions?
The rest of the work is going well.
And my fall show is done, so I actually have free time. I ran a couple of miles every day this week! Of course, the informational meeting about the musical was today, so that break is short-lived. I am really glad it is holiday!
And my fall show is done, so I actually have free time. I ran a couple of miles every day this week! Of course, the informational meeting about the musical was today, so that break is short-lived. I am really glad it is holiday!
Happy Thanksgiving, friends!
Daniel,
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, congratulations on surviving the fall show season! Have you ever used surveymonkey.com? It is a free online site which allows you to create a variety of surreys and then administer them. They can be of any length, multiple choices, or multiple choices with comments. The site also collects and organizes the data for you. It is a great example of technology aiding teachers in the gathering and evaluation of multiple data points (Laureate, 2009). It is pretty friendly on both ends too, set up and utilization. My school uses the site quite a bit for both teacher and student surveys. Just a thought!
Liza
Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2008). Assessing student learning. [Webcast]. Baltimore, MD: Author
Daniel,
ReplyDeleteI see Liza suggested surveymonkey.com but do you have access to classroom response systems? “These allow individual students to beam responses anonymously, or at least confidentially, to questions posed to an entire class” (Cennamo et. al., 2009, p. 144). If you don’t have access to that and if you do not object to using cell phones as a learning toll (or you can use a computer for the students that don’t have cell phones) you could use http://www.polleverywhere.com to anonymously have the students vote on the commercials in class. Good job running again!
Daniel,
ReplyDeleteIf you have a system like the SMART Response clickers available to you in your class that might be the best way that you can have your students vote on the commercials because they "allow individual students to "beam" responses anonymously, or at least confidentially, to questions posted to an entire class", in your case the vote (Cennamo, Ross & Ertmer, 2009. p.144). However, if you do not have that available then a great free resource would be surveymokey.com as mentioned by Liza. Although there are several software systems available online most of them must be purchased, like www.eduballot.com, www.voting4schools.com and www.balloteer.com might all serve the purpose if you can get your district to purchase these. Happy voting! I hope to find out how this lesson turns out for you.
References
Cennamo, K., Ross, J. & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach. (Laureate Education, Inc., Custom ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
Aneta
Hi Dan,
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like your project is off to a great start! You have incorporated a great number of critical-thinking skills into an alternative assessment that is sure to garner more student engagement and interest than a traditional assessment. I like that you also model for them all the steps of the overall process, as well as integrating the project with teachers from other content areas. According to Cennamo, Ross, and Ertmer (2009), “Whether an intended consequence or not, the assessment activities you select will indicate to your students which skills and knowledge you feel are more important or worthwhile” (p. 142). This project demonstrates to your students that you are taking their interests into account and providing them with authentic, creative experiences.
I understand your concern about having the competition turn into a popularity contest. Maybe you can have two different voting experiences, one for the students to choose and another for community members or advertising students from a local university to judge. Perhaps you could have community members vote on the winning commercial by posting each one on the school’s website, then creating a survey at surveymonkey.com. That way, students might have a broader audience for their work and get feedback at the same time. Maybe you can even post the top five here on your blog and have us evaluate them and give feedback?
Regan
Cennamo, K., Ross, J. & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach. (Laureate Education, Inc., Custom ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.