Week
4: Creating a video
Part
1
I
chose to evaluate this video. This instructional video teaches students how
to count to 100 by 5’s. This is
appropriate for my kindergarten classroom because it combines learning with
movement. I find this technique to be
the most beneficial for students of this age group. This video would be used for our daily review
of counting by 5’s.
I
applied the Ten Factors to Consider When Evaluating a Podcast to this video:
1. Is the
content appropriate for your current area of study?
-Yes, counting by 5’s is a Common Core State Standard. We review counting by 5’s on a daily basis in
order to meet this standard.
2. Does the video add to or enhance your current lesson
plan?
-I believe
this video adds to our typical counting by 5’s by adding movement and song.
3. Does the content and production of the video meet
school and community standards for acceptable use in your school?
-Yes, this
video meets the CCSS for kindergarten and is appropriate for kindergarten
students to view.
4. Is the content of the video well organized and easy
to follow?
-Yes, the
video is in order and concise without too much information.
5. Is the content of the video compelling enough to hold
the attention of your audience?
-Yes, the
song and dance keeps the attention of kindergarten students and allows them to
retain the information in a kinesthetic fashion.
6. Is the video in a digital format that works in your
classroom?
-Yes,
it available on YouTube and passes the restrictions placed on certain YouTube
content.
7. Was the video produced by a source you consider
credible?
-Yes, Jack
Hartmann owns a business that produces numerous educational songs.
8. Is listening to the video the best method of learning
about this topic for your students?
-No, the
best learning for the video would be with movement and singing of the students
as well.
9. Is the video supported by additional online content(
a website with further resources or archives, for example)?
-Yes,
https://www.jackhartmann.com/
1. Does the video include any usage rights that limit
the broadcast or distribution of content?
-There are no
restrictions in the classroom for viewing.
I also compared this video
to the Instructional Media Design Principles from week 1. The main principle that I noticed it applied
to was the Temporal Contiguity Principle.
This principle discusses that graphics and narration are presented
together. In the video, numbers are
presented at the same time the narration/song addresses it. The Embodiment Principle is also
apparent. The man in the video has
human-like gestures with song and dance that children can copy.
Part 3
Lesson: This
video was created as a daily reminder of our letters, letter sounds, and
letter-sound-word connection. When
students enter kindergarten, they do not all know the letter names or
sounds. This video would be used as a
daily review of these prior to our ELA lessons.
I believe it is important to teach students letters and sounds of the
alphabet comprehensively, rather than independently.
Learning Objective: After this lesson, students will be able to
identify and apply the letters and letter sounds to their reading and writing.
Creativity: I believe creativity is becoming less
important in schools. After leaving my
job as a Pre-K teacher and now a kindergarten teacher, this has become more
apparent to me. As the academics become
a more important piece, creativity and the arts dwindles. With that being said, I try to incorporate
creativity through art activities in my classroom. These typically connect with a science unit
about animals and the seasons. As for my
own teaching, I am always trying to be creative in my delivery of lessons, I attempt
to never deliver lessons in the same exact way each day. Consistency is important at the young age I
teach, but my students and myself get extremely bored with the same thing
everyday. Therefore, I develop new and
different ELA activities each week. When
thinking about different multimedia materials, I always think to myself, ‘Would
I want to watch this if I was in kindergarten?’
If the answer is no, then I continue to work until I can answer yes to
this question. This is where my
creativity comes into play. Kindergarten
age students want to see color and sound together and through creative and
different processes, I believe that can be reached. For pieces of multimedia I discover, I
typically ask myself the same question.
Children of this age need stimulation and I select videos to reach this.
Application: This
week, I designed my instructional video with the Spacial Contiguity Principle
in mind. This principle’s idea is that
printed words and graphics are near each other.
My video has graphics and letters that are close to each other and at
times overlap. My idea behind this is
that students will keep a mental picture of this in their mind when they are
applying the concept to their ELA activities.
I do not believe my video explicitly allows for creativity. However, I believe it will lead to creativity
in their connection of letter-sounds and words.
My hope is that by introducing students to letter-sound-word
connections, they will eventually develop their own words to connect the sounds
and letters to.
Reflection: I had seen the TED Talk by Sir Ken Robinson prior to this week, but it was a nice refresher on the idea of creativity. I taught GSRP (Pre-K) for two years before
becoming a kindergarten teacher. I
believe the most important concept we had to have in our daily activities was
creativity. All of our activities were
required to be open-ended. This was
implemented in order to allow children to be creative in their thought
processes and work. I was able to
witness eye-opening work from my students with these open-ended
activities. However, when I went to
kindergarten, everything changed. I feel
it is expected that everyone do the same ‘cookie cutter’ projects. I do my best to keep this ‘open-ended’
concept, but when it comes to the academic portions, it is not always
available. While creating this
instructional media, I noticed I was very focused on using images that were
Public Domain. Prior to this course, I
would say I didn’t really pay attention to copyright laws. However, I am happy I have become more aware
as I believe it could have had negative consequences eventually.
Hello Ellen,
ReplyDeleteI must say that I love the idea of doing a video that demonstrates the letter sounds for the students. I feel that a video like this could have many uses. When I taught kindergarten, I would often work with students on pronouncing words and letter sounds. I feel like this would have been a great addition to the phonics groups I met with. I could have used something like this by playing the sections of letters that my phonics groups struggled with. You could also expand upon this video and incorporate pictures or videos of mouth position for pronouncing these letters too.
Additionally, I have to agree with you about the video that you evaluated. Songs and dances do indeed tend to be more engaging for the students. The students enjoy these activities more; therefore, they focus more attention.
Hello,
ReplyDeleteMaking a video that shows the letters, how to pronounce them, and a picture of something that starts with that letter was a great idea. Powtoons seemed to work well for you. My 8th grade science students try to use Powtoons to create much more complex videos and they tend to be less engaging and effective. Your video is a great example of how to properly use Powtoons. I always enjoy seeing how teachers of young students complete our weekly assignments. We seem to have a different perspective and it is inspirational. In the future, I will likely encourage students to use Powtoons for basic videos because your video turned out perfectly. Thank you for sharing!
Hey Ellen,
ReplyDeleteI love your video. I think it looks very professional and well put together. I have 4 Kindergartners on my caseload this year- each one of them had IEP goals related to letter-sounds. I can see myself using your video to support letter sound recall, as well as use it for expansion. As soon as I saw you gave an example of an object that begun with the letter sound I thought of a way I could use it as a quick game: I would pause it on a letter with your picture support and say, "lets see if we can list 10 other things with the same beginning sound before the timer runs out!" One suggestion I have would be including all of the phonemes for each letter, example: A = A, Ah, AA. I only suggest this because it is required in our schools! :) Great job again.