I am going to set up a voicethread project with Djaisi for the grade 7 students. We did a version last year and it seemed to have potential, so it would be great to make this work in the program.
The task is:
To take photos from a heart dissection to show important things about the heart, then put these into a voicethread, use comments to illustrate the science, then post to personal blogs and peer assess
It will involve:
- Setting up accounts for voicethread (ICT will do)
- Order hearts and lab material
- Find enough cameras and ways of downloading photos
- Prepare task sheet with instruction and assessment information
- Check schedule fit
- How to’s for some of the unfamiliar tasks – voicethread, embeding, blog use…
How will we know if we have been successful?
From before it was apparent that it is possible to get a good amount of enthusiasm going. This is a good indicator. The problem last time was to make sure there was enough complexity in the product and the associated learning. Hopefully the learning will be apparent in the product. It should also be possible to include an assignment like this without a massive investment of time. If it overruns a lot or requires a lot of additional teacher time, this isn’t good
Moving Forward 