WEEK TWO
I have begun my second week of classes both in my classes at Missouri Baptist University and at Kaskaskia College, when I work. This is usually the time where all chaos begins for me and my mind begins to wander as I am commuting back and forth from my home in Nashville to Centralia. I love to work on crafty projects. So this week, I have been thinking about how we can step-up our New Student Orientation presentation with what I am learning in my MoBap class.
In the Pearson's text, we are reading the 2nd chapter, focused on things "Technology Tools to Support Literacy". I am always trying to shake up the presentation because we have a basic power-point that we have added different tools to, over the last couple of semesters, to make it more engaging. This last semester, I added a Prezi for the Library portion, as well as a new video from the music department that utilized multi-media for attention.
Kaskaskia College was started in 1940 and presently has extension campuses and sites in East St. Louis, Greenville, Nashville, Salem, Trenton, Vandalia, and two additional locations within the city of Centralia. We also offer classes at two prisons and at various businesses in the region. Because we have a "one College concept", our new student orientation needs to be educationally equal for any site and all participants no matter when or where they attend.
While our reading assignment was focused on grade school, I found "A Podcast Tour of Washington, D.C." (Anderson, p. 49-50) a create idea for me and my Student Ambassador staff to adapt into our presentation. We usually find that describing each of our sites to be cumbersome and unfortunately a little boring. I believe this idea is just the ticket that I have been looking for! I also think that it will be fun for us to learn more about the towns and areas that we are working within. After all, these are the places where are students live and are proud to call home. I am sure they will be happy to see that we are excited that our institution is a part of their history, also.
Reference
Anderson, R.S., Grant, M.M., Speck, B.W. (2001). Technology to teach literacy: A resource for K-8 teachers. Upper Saddle River, NJ. Pearson.
Hello Christin,
ReplyDeleteI began to create a Google Site for my physics class but it was turning into a static and boring repository of information and lacked interaction. My school (Fox C-6) recently switched to a new gradebook system but did not provide a website location that was worth using so I, like other teachers, began a blog (wordpress). Without much added to it yet students seem to take a greater interest when commenting is possible. As far as literacy I have found that many students lack the skills to interpret simple statements into mathematical expressions. In other words, students cannot really solve real-world math problems well were they have to create the equation based on written or spoken information. I ran across a great book "Literacy Strategies for Improving Mathematics Instruction" by Joan Kenney et al. I am going to improve their math literacy.
Thanks for your post.
Matt Selinger