Design Document:
1. Target audience:
My target audience is my group of science students, who (next year) will range in age from 6th grade (middle school) through 12th grade. I plan to do a blog, which has announcements, homework, related useful articles, reminders, stories, videos, and discussions among students. Also, it is targeted to the parents’ students as communication tools which tell them more about their kids and the content of course, such activities, important events, resources, due dates, and content being covered, assignments, and calendar of class.
2. Context:
This educational project is for private school, which called The Alkifah School that located in my hometown Saudi Arabia. This school decided to integrate using technology with education for the first time to develop students’ using technology and motivate them to learn with enthusiasm. Notice, the students attended a course which describes in detailed how to use computers, social media programs, and Google services in the classrooms. I am excited to apply my knowledge that I learned through this class for my students.
3. Learning objectives:
In the end of the semester, the students will:
1) Have improved students’ writing skills because they will post weekly in the blog of the science classroom.
2) Have ownership of their learning by doing their assignments on time and be ready for the exams and did not forget the due day or exams’ day.
3) Be more engaged with their classmates and teacher.
4) Have value information from other scientific resources instead reading the only textbook.
5) Be active collaborators with each other and work like one team.
6) Responsible for their own learning.
7) Effective participant in the learning process.
8) Have positive and enthusiasm feelings in the classroom environment instead of stress and difficulty.
9) Parents observed all students’ activities and know everything related about science classroom.
4. Detailed Description of lesson/intervention:
My blog involves several online tools, which develop students’ understanding of scientific topics and invite them to be more participant in the learning environment. First, I will use a podcast online tool, which is to share scientific ideas, tell stories, create newscasts, or hold debates. Actually, I can use a podcast for many things, however, I will post a scientific podcast then ask students to write comments and engage them to reply to each other. Second, I will use a tutorial (educational video) by Jing website to teach students how they can create an account for Google Drive, which they will work on it for their final project. Third, I will use a Google map to clarify the location of a farm that we will visit it as educational trip during the semester. Fourth, I will use a concept map for a lesson, which helps students to memorize information before the exam.
5. Justification:
I believe that Blog is a great educational tool for various reasons. First, current generation loves using technology particularly social media programs which blog considers as a communication tool for the students, parents, and teacher. I notice that students love seeing their work on the Internet and adore getting comments from people. It motivates them to write as it gives them an audience that is real. The blog opens up a whole new world of people who can offer encouragement and feedback. Further, the blogging experience forces the students to do more reflection on their learning and allows them to showcase products they have produced with online tools. Second, the blog is a good choice for 6th-grade students because it is unofficial like a website. The Blog is easy to use, free, and has the ability to post different media such as video, image, and map. Third, the blog provides for students a space of freedom because they have a chance to post anything they want, reply to the teacher or ask her in anytime. That is a great advantage because the teacher will be closer for students by checking the blog constantly, update the content, and answer students’ questions. Fourth, the blog makes students more responsible particular students in this age they need to be an independent person (can decide, state opinion, and suggest activity). Fifth, blog has a great advantage, which organizes the posts serially based on the date of publishing, which make students know where they are, what they were done, and reminds them what they have in next classes. Also, blog stores students’ work forever instead of lost it after finishing the semester. By using the blog, we work as a teacher to develop a learning network. Exercise books need not be pushed and crumpled in school lockers only to be placed in the rubbish bins at the end of the school year, but students' works are out there for their school lives. The most important feature of blog is safety and non-adjustable by anyone (it can editing by just the owner who is the teacher, in contrast, wiki has less security to change the content.
6. Artifact:
I created a blog for my students by using a Blogger site, which is a tool that makes it easy to instantly publish weblogs or blogs. The blog is a simple web page, I made up for short, informal, and frequently updated posts. Blogger helps me to make it easy for me as a teacher to create post text and pictures, and start generating feedback in minutes.
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