Week 7

Assessment Number One:

Preparing students for the 21st century... what are you preparing your students for?

"Oh my, Stacey, how dramatic!" you say? I hope so. That one-liner is what pops into my head when I think 'video presentation'. 

So this is what we have so far:

We have a KLA: SOSE, 

A year level: 5, 

A content area: The First Fleet, 

A teaching approach: Marsh's (2008) 8 steps approach, and

A technology: Google earth

Put it all together and you've got yourself a highly professional, possibly money-making PD video! I wish it was that easy. After two WEEKEND group meetings and four frustrated and sleepless nights trying to piece this together, I've at least come to one conclusion: Movie maker - makes my life difficult. iMovie - makes it worse. One isn't compatible with the other and it's impossible to get access to both in the same place. Luckily my fellow group members - The Googlies, are better at problem solving than I am. This is how we've split the work:

Me: I'm taking care of the introduction, and the content knowledge involved in our project. I've decided to take somewhat of an inspirational approach. If I'm going to make people watch this video than I'll make sure it does something for them, keeping in mind that our group now has 2 teachers who want to see the finishing product. The first impression has to contain the message we want to get across, and it needs to be powerful in a sense. And then we have the First Fleet as a year 5 SOSE unit... pretty self explanatory. QSA essential learnings, knowledge and understanding and ways of working, data, first-hand and secondary evidence, and the all important vocabulary. 

Renee: Renaynay is taking care of the pedagogy. She's loving Marsh's 8 steps, and the fact that she gets a second run at the SOSE textbook. She's also lucky enough to score the conclusion to our video, which will summarize our message and all the main points. I must say, her mind works in ways that I just can't decode. 

Scott: Mr. Hovey is looking into the technological knowledge in our TPACK model. I won't lie, he is the driving force behind putting our video together. Although Renee and I have some expertise (and by some, I mean none at all) in making movies, Scott's approach is more professional... which is what we're going for. 

Yes, I did spend four hours putting my part together... and no I didn't save it properly. Someone should have taught me how to save properly in primary school. Yay. Back to the drawing board...

Queensland Studies Authority. (2008). SOSE Essential Learnings - by the end of year 5. Department of Education and training. QLD.