Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - Technology Across the Curriculum Presentation Proposal
I would like to do a presentation on the use of Comic Composer, one the Student Materials found in the ReadWriteThink website. Specifically I would like to show how it could be used by students in a middle school science class to produce a lab report.
The benefit would be that for the students whose work is usually so messy that the content is lost, or severly diminished for the reader, Comic Composer could be a useful tool to improve how their work is received. The students who already can produce legible attractive reports, will discover another potential media tool.
I intend to base the lab report on a middle school science lab lesson that I presented for an Ed 538 Science Methods MicroTeaching assignment earlier this term. The lab involved setting up a scale model of the recent lunar eclipse using various sizes of styrofoam balls, a light source, and some solar system distance information. My idea is that students could use Comic Composer to produce the lab report illustrating how they set up their model, and what they learned from the experiment. In my Technology Across the Curriculum presentation, I intend to demonstrate how Comic Composer could be used for this purpose.
The benefit would be that for the students whose work is usually so messy that the content is lost, or severly diminished for the reader, Comic Composer could be a useful tool to improve how their work is received. The students who already can produce legible attractive reports, will discover another potential media tool.
I intend to base the lab report on a middle school science lab lesson that I presented for an Ed 538 Science Methods MicroTeaching assignment earlier this term. The lab involved setting up a scale model of the recent lunar eclipse using various sizes of styrofoam balls, a light source, and some solar system distance information. My idea is that students could use Comic Composer to produce the lab report illustrating how they set up their model, and what they learned from the experiment. In my Technology Across the Curriculum presentation, I intend to demonstrate how Comic Composer could be used for this purpose.
# posted by BillZ @ 1:47 PM 
