I enjoyed creating the GAME plan for my Video Broadcast Journalism class. The ideas and tips provided over the past several weeks have brought new ideas and concepts I can implement to keep my students engaged in the lessons and use the technology to enhance their learning. I found new websites that I can use for my classes that address social concerns and issues that my students will be working on. With the start of the new school year, I am fortunate to have received new computers, including iMacs, along with new high definition cameras. With the new technology, my students should be able to produce quality videos.
Having the new technology, my students will be able to create numerous instructional and informative videos that can be shared with other classes and the community. Revisions to my GAME plan will be made when necessary. The research part of the GAME plan will most likely change as I implement this lesson in the future. Many web sites change and the content of the sites change. I will have to stay on top of my own research before assigning the lesson to students.
Many of the videos that my classes will produce will be student driven; therefore, their creativity and ideas will need to be addresses. Having an open dialog with my students and collaborating with them will probably make modifications to the original GAME plan. I have already taken steps to change some habits of mine with regards to technology integration in my course. I am going to have students save all work to the external hard drives and create DVD’s that show all their work. They will keep all their work organized and at the end of the semester, they will have an opportunity to create a portfolio of all work that is burned to a DVD.
Integrating technology as well as problem-based learning, social networking, collaboration, and digital storytelling with my curriculum is already taking place. I have a class Intranet web site being designed and built so that my students can collaborate and share ideas and work during school. Outside of school, many of my students collaborate through a facebook page for class that a student created so that they can share and inform. I feel fortunate to teach what I do because it will allow me the opportunity to create many digital stories that can address cross curricular courses, create “how to” instructional guides, address concerns, and allow the students to be creative with their own technology skills.
