Week 3 - Harris & Hofer Activity Types

Instructional Planning Activity Types Chart

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Make sure you have read the article for this week by Harris and Hofer! For this assignment you will think about an activity that you do in your class and consider some technologies that may support that activity in a different way based on your TPACK understanding. Some examples are provided below in different styles, you can decide how you will enter your contribution to the knowledge being constructed in the chart!

Participant Name	Activity Type	Brief Description	Possible Technologies
Sample Participant	Listen to Audio	Students listen to recordings of speeches, music, radio broadcasts, oral histories, and lectures; digital or non-digital	Podcasts (“Great Speeches in History,” etc.), Audacity, Garageband, Odeo, Evoca, Podcast People
Sample Participant	Peer Feedback	In my class students give each other peer feedback on a writing project, but it would be great to do this electronically.	I may consider a wiki where they would post their writing and then others could comment sort of non private? Could use Google Docs and peers could comment using the comment option and it would be more private.
Sample Participant	Math Game	Students would create a math review game on a particular unit including math concepts and vocabulary	Students could use smart powerpoint templates, puzzlemaker to design their game, as well as, Google Docs and/or Wiki to communicate with their group members sharing ideas and editing their work
Sample Participant	View Presentation	Parents (my audience) view a presentation designed to educate them about the set up of the school, procedures and the type of experience they can expect for their child in an orientation style gathering.	iMovie, Voice Thread to incorporate student perspectives, Power Point, Digital Imaging
Sample Participant	Research Report/Science Fair Project	Students have to ask a testable question, research their topic, then go through the steps of the scientific method to test that question. Finally, students must present their findings at a science fair using poster/display boards.	Instead of presenting their findings using a display board, students could use movie maker, imovie, photostory, or some other video/photo editing software to present their findings in video format. It would be more meaningful for the audience because the students could record some of their experiment and actually show video clips of what they did as well as their results... so the audience can see "first-hand" what happened in the experiment rather than simply reading the procedures on a display board. Also, the presentation could then be shared through various online mediums like YouTube.com, motionbox.com, TeacherTube.com and others. Presentations could even be embedded on blogs and in wikis to share the information learned with the larger world.
Sample Participant	Field Trip	Students develop a better understanding of the American Revolution during a historical fiction unit. By "visiting" the sites and events mentioned in the book, students can see what the characters would have went through during that time in history and develop a basis for visualizing the story. Students could also "travel" the same route as characters in the book to better understand the intensity of the journey.	Google Earth, locations offering electronic field trips for a fee such as http://www.history.org/history/teaching/eft/ through Colonial Williamsburg, websites offering free electronic field trips such as ushistory.org
Sample Participant	Research	Students study important figures from the Revolutionary War.	Students create social networking profiles on a Google Doc portraying a key figure from the Revolutionary War. They share these profiles in order to "invite" each other to events and comment on "friends" pages.
Sample Participant	Research & presentation	Students will identify and then compare and contrast the top two environmental oil spills in the world. This would be a joint project between the History, Science, Language Arts and Math departments.	Students will learn how to create a power point presentation and Exel spreadsheet supported by research using multimedia (video clips, TV documentaries, etc) to identify & collect information and finally compare and contrast top two oil spills in the world -financially, economically and environmentally. Final project presented and video recorded on DVD. (Technology: Excel, PowerPoint, Digital Video recorder, google documents)
Sample Participant	Creating podcasts	Students will take a math concept and and record it. they will take a concept, show how to do the concept. Post it to a webpage for students use who are having trouble with this concept	Students can use podcasting to do their math concept for you. they will record it and then upload it to the teacher webpage. It will be used as a resources for other students
Sample Participant	Answer Question, Group Discussion	Students will post response to weekly Essential Question and reply to others responses.	Students would use a class wiki to post responses and replies. Sharing their thoughts with others would expand their knowledge and point of view.
Sample Participant	Create a Timeline	We did a project that included a timeline of a famous entrepreneur's life. Students used websites to gather the information, and created a timeline on paper or using Word.	I'd like to add emphasis to the main points gathered from the research (rather than just copy/paste) and have students use a tool such as timeliner, photostory, bubbleshare--rather than only using Word or Paper. Encourage more specific content knowledge, while giving options with technologic knowledge.