Wednesday, September 30, 2009
What did customize on your layout?
What changes did you make to your blog layout? Leave a comment on this post and let me know one or two changes you made to your blog layout.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Revising Your Project Idea
How can I revise my project idea according to the rubric?
Based on your project reflection worksheets, go back into your project idea and make sure you are addressing all of the worksheet questions in your project statement. Also, look over the project rubric again and try and address the standards in your project statement. Does your project reflect perspective, analysis, connections, imagination, and commitment?
When you have finished updating your project idea, please read over your feedback partner's project idea by visiting their blog and posting a comment. Please try and help your partner clarify their idea with ideas, questions, or suggestions.
If you have not signed up for an academic gmail address yet, do so now at gmail.com and then visit blogger.com and sign up for a digital portfolio blog.
Based on your project reflection worksheets, go back into your project idea and make sure you are addressing all of the worksheet questions in your project statement. Also, look over the project rubric again and try and address the standards in your project statement. Does your project reflect perspective, analysis, connections, imagination, and commitment?
When you have finished updating your project idea, please read over your feedback partner's project idea by visiting their blog and posting a comment. Please try and help your partner clarify their idea with ideas, questions, or suggestions.
If you have not signed up for an academic gmail address yet, do so now at gmail.com and then visit blogger.com and sign up for a digital portfolio blog.
Monday, September 21, 2009
First Blog Posts
Today we are going to add our first blog posts. Your first post will be your personal introduction. The introduction is saved in your sent mail in Gmail or I can email it back to you at your new Gmail address. Before you post your introduction, forward the email to your new feedback partner, who will review the introduction for grammar and spelling errors and then send it back to you with any corrections or changes.
- Copy the introduction and paste it into the body of your first blog post.
- Title the post "Introduction" and click Publish Post beneath the editing window.
After you post your introduction, your second blog post will be your initial project idea. Please make sure you type your project idea in the form of a statement and not just a list. For example,
In digital portfolio I would like to create a short video about crime in the community. I am very interested in pursuing a career in criminal justice or forensic science like on CSI. I would like to interview a police officer, a college admissions counselor, a student at John Jay on video. I will conduct research about crime in Brooklyn and present the facts and the opinions of people I interview in the video. The project connects to science and government, as well as my own career interest in being a police detective or crime scene investigator. I also hope to learn more about shooting video and editing it on the computer.
In digital portfolio I would like to create a short video about crime in the community. I am very interested in pursuing a career in criminal justice or forensic science like on CSI. I would like to interview a police officer, a college admissions counselor, a student at John Jay on video. I will conduct research about crime in Brooklyn and present the facts and the opinions of people I interview in the video. The project connects to science and government, as well as my own career interest in being a police detective or crime scene investigator. I also hope to learn more about shooting video and editing it on the computer.
- Type up your project ideas from yesterday and post them under the title "Initial Project Idea".
- When you have finished your post, send the link to your feedback partner's email address.
- Visit your feedback partner's blog and leave a comment with your thoughts and ideas about their initial project ideas. Do the projects seem realistic? Do you think it's appropriate for a portfolio? Does it seem important?
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Project Reflection
One of the final steps to completing Digital Portfolio is to write a reflection essay to accompany your independent project. In the essay you should reflect not only on the growth of your project but your own growth as a self-regulated learner. The reflection essay is also an opportunity for those of you who have struggled with the independent project to explain the difficulties and obstacles you have faced.
The reflection essay should cover the project rubric items that we looked at near the end of last marking period. Additionally, you want to make sure you reflect on your growth as an independent learner; setting goals, conducting research, gathering evidence, experimenting, creating, planning, and reflecting on your task. The reflection essay should cover the following points:
The reflection essay should cover the project rubric items that we looked at near the end of last marking period. Additionally, you want to make sure you reflect on your growth as an independent learner; setting goals, conducting research, gathering evidence, experimenting, creating, planning, and reflecting on your task. The reflection essay should cover the following points:
- Introduce and explain your project idea. What problem does the project address? What task, phenomena, stimulus, question, or discrepancy does your project attempt to solve? You should refer to and include any relavant planning information from your blog.
- Analyze your efforts to solve the problem, answer the question, or complete the task through your project. Describe what research, experimentation, and/or action you have taken to complete the project. What new knowledge did you acquire through the project? What if any new knowledge did you create through the project? What have been your strengths and weaknesses working on the project?
- Explain your personal and academic connections to the project. What attracted you to the problem, question, or idea for the project? Explain why the project is important to you and also why it is important to the community and/or the world? How could the project help others?
- Explain how your project synthesized your idea, planning, research, and actions into a new creative form. What ways did you create, image, or innovate to produce your project? Remember, synthesis is the form of thinking where you create your own solution to a problem. How did your imagination help you think flexibly or take a risk?
- Evaluate your overall commitment to the project. Predict whether your final project will meet all your goals and offer a solution to the problem you have addressed. This is an opportunity to appraise your performance honestly and address how your project could be improved, revised, or finished.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Goal # 8 Reflection and Goal Setting #9
Good morning, today you will assess your progress on your last goal #8 by leaving a comment on your previous post. Please explain how you met your goal and describe your progress including any evidence that you produced last week. When you are finished commenting, post your new SMART goal #9 and begin working on meeting your goal during class today.
During your goal reflection and setting today, I will be coming around to check for evidence of progress. Please be prepared to show and/or explain how you met goal #8. We will look at the number of students who set and met their individual goals today and tomorrow in class. This is the final marking period and meeting our goals is the most important goal for the class.
During your goal reflection and setting today, I will be coming around to check for evidence of progress. Please be prepared to show and/or explain how you met goal #8. We will look at the number of students who set and met their individual goals today and tomorrow in class. This is the final marking period and meeting our goals is the most important goal for the class.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Project Conferences and Finding your expert
Today I will be meeting with each of you to discuss your progress towards completing your project. We are entering the third Marking Period and projects for portfolio will have to be finished and graded by Tuesday May 26th for Juniors and Thursday June 4th for seniors. The rest of our time in Digital Portfolio needs to be used to create, execute, make, image, write, or design your projects. Your final weekly goals should be about making the product.
Today and tomorrow while I conduct conferences, you may work on your project after you spend some time searching for contact information for experts who might be able to answer your questions. Use Google to search for poets, writers, painters, artists, musicians, and/or people working if fields relevant to your own. Many of you have found blogs related to your topics, and you can contact those people with your questions as well.
Try and find contact info for 3 - 5 people you think could answer your expert questions and email me the information at mr.powhida@gmail.com. In your email, include a short 2 -3 introduction that you will send out along with your questions to the experts. Tomorrow, we will try and send out your questions at the beginning of class.
Today and tomorrow while I conduct conferences, you may work on your project after you spend some time searching for contact information for experts who might be able to answer your questions. Use Google to search for poets, writers, painters, artists, musicians, and/or people working if fields relevant to your own. Many of you have found blogs related to your topics, and you can contact those people with your questions as well.
Try and find contact info for 3 - 5 people you think could answer your expert questions and email me the information at mr.powhida@gmail.com. In your email, include a short 2 -3 introduction that you will send out along with your questions to the experts. Tomorrow, we will try and send out your questions at the beginning of class.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Goal Setting and Finding an Expert
Now that the Internet is working, please comment on last week's goal #5(6) regarding your progress and post a NEW smart goal #6(7) on your blog. The marking period ends tomorrow and we will be conducting progress conferences tomorrow and Thursday. You will have time tomorrow and Thursday during those conferences to catch up on any blog posting and goal setting you need to improve your grade, as well as meet this week's goal.
Many of you could use some guidance for your projects, because there is an overwhelming amount of information on the Internet. As you know, information is not valuable unless you are able to comprehend, apply, analyze, synthesize, and/or evaluate it. In order to help find some guidance we will be searching for experts, or people who have already applied the kind of higher order thinking you need to do in their own work.
We happen to live in a city of experts. In terms of your projects, many of you will be able to find help and ideas within the school and others will have to look beyond the school walls. How you do find an expert? You search for people and contact information in the industry you are researching and you reach out to several of them until someone responds. I was contacted by a student at the Young Writer's Academy to talk about my work as a writer in Brooklyn. I sat down for an interview about my writing process. The student found my email on the Internet and contacted me. I responded because I thought it would be good for the community (commitment).
Before you start searching for an expert on your project (or area of interest), you will need to think of several questions to ask your expert. For example, Karisha wants to write a fantasy story. She might ask an expert on writing "Why did you get into writing?", "What are some of the steps you take to write a story?", or "How can I develop my characters?"
Each of you needs to write a series of at least seven questions for an expert about your project. They should not be yes or no questions, but ones that will help guide your work. Email me your questions today at mr.powhida@gmail.com
If you finish your questions early, start searching for people in your field of interest or if you know a faculty member that might be able to help, include them in your email today. So, if you are making a video/film search for "Brooklyn, Film makers, production companies". If you are doing fashion, search for "Brooklyn, fashion designers"
Finding an Expert
Many of you could use some guidance for your projects, because there is an overwhelming amount of information on the Internet. As you know, information is not valuable unless you are able to comprehend, apply, analyze, synthesize, and/or evaluate it. In order to help find some guidance we will be searching for experts, or people who have already applied the kind of higher order thinking you need to do in their own work.
We happen to live in a city of experts. In terms of your projects, many of you will be able to find help and ideas within the school and others will have to look beyond the school walls. How you do find an expert? You search for people and contact information in the industry you are researching and you reach out to several of them until someone responds. I was contacted by a student at the Young Writer's Academy to talk about my work as a writer in Brooklyn. I sat down for an interview about my writing process. The student found my email on the Internet and contacted me. I responded because I thought it would be good for the community (commitment).
Before you start searching for an expert on your project (or area of interest), you will need to think of several questions to ask your expert. For example, Karisha wants to write a fantasy story. She might ask an expert on writing "Why did you get into writing?", "What are some of the steps you take to write a story?", or "How can I develop my characters?"
Each of you needs to write a series of at least seven questions for an expert about your project. They should not be yes or no questions, but ones that will help guide your work. Email me your questions today at mr.powhida@gmail.com
If you finish your questions early, start searching for people in your field of interest or if you know a faculty member that might be able to help, include them in your email today. So, if you are making a video/film search for "Brooklyn, Film makers, production companies". If you are doing fashion, search for "Brooklyn, fashion designers"
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