Discussion Assignment Two - B
Please review the table on the Week Two web page that presents a synthesis of the Week One Discussion Assignment responses. Note that although it is still very early in the semester, several suggestions made by students could lead to part or all of the final semester project for the course. Please feel free to post a follow-up comment on the Course Discussion Blog in which you continue the discussion on any of these topics or post a comment on your personal blog in which you discuss how any of these topics (or other related ones) might be of interest to you as part or all of the final semester project you will be proposing later in the semester.
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Dr. Robin,
Please correctthis sentence under Links > Other DS sites:
"This site wants to eliminate barriers that so everyone's story can to be told in an interesting way."
Please also edit for the consistent use of "this site," "site," or "this web site" throughout the list.
Dr. Robin and classmates.
I just ran through the examples on the DS site. The graphics on each page that connected with the theme was a nice touch. I was suprised to see so little under Language Arts. I thought that would be a fairly large category.
It is interesting how different stories connect with you. I liked Time and Efficiency and the Vietnam story. How many have been to Washington DC to see the Vietnam Memorial Wall. Pictures never do that wall justice. The names on that wall and the size and length of that wall really bring home how many young men lost their lives in that unpopular war. How many of us had a POW bracelet? The name on my bracelet was Roscoe Fobair and sadly, though I never knew him, I still remember his name after all these years and even found his name on the wall when I was in Washington DC.
Okay, I digress but back to my point. Somehow more examples need to be posted to these example pages. Are DS created in other courses on campus automatically submitted to you for review and posting on the site. Seems to me that other courses could include this as a final project.
Dr. Robin, in the examples of Engines of Our Ingenuity, the story about Pompeii did not stream well. All the others did. Maybe it could be looked into.
Dr. Robin and Classmates,
Another thing I noticed and thought of came under Rubrics section of Evaluation. The rubrics there are good for college and high school but way too wordy and detailed for elementary students. Maybe we need an example of a rubric for elementary level students. If we want people to come to U of H's site as a premier site on the topic of Digital Storytelling then perhaps we need to include that.
Also for your information on the hits the site receives, couldn't a counter be easily incorporated?
I agree about the site needing a good rubric for elementary school, but also for middle school. I teach 6th grade and can adapt the rubrics, which are good, for my students, but it would be nice to have a resource to go to so that I could pull different rubrics for different kinds of projects at my grade level.
I would like to help expand the section under the Health/Medical page.
While browsing our web site, I had some ideas on DS in teaching ESL/EFL and Language Arts. I agree with L Kieler that we have so little under this section. Should we think of expanding it? Will write more on this in my personal blog.
As of now, there isn't a place for DS relating to international studies including foreign language. This would be an area of interest for me if we decide to include it.
After skimming through the examples of DS, here are my comments.
Under health/medical, how about changing it "Medical/Dental"? The have subtopics such as patient education, student/residency information, and etc...
I feel the term health could be synonomous with medical. What do our medical classmates think?
Maybe change Language Arts to Fine/Liberal Arts. ESL, Foreign languages, and Pop culture could fall under this category.
You have an example of Mathematics, what about all the other course subjects? Maybe have Education, then list the course subjects as subtopics-just a thought.
I think we could also have a Culture category with stories about other cultures, lifestyle, customs, food, history etc. This would be particularly useful for middle and high-school children since they learn about other nations and their diverse cultures. Its a really comprehensive topic and there could be a hundred stories about different cultures. This is really my area of interest for a final project since I am from India which has a rich cultural heritage of its own. This category could be an eye-opener to diversity and understand how to differentiate education to suit those diverse learners in our educational set-up.
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