FINAL PRESENTATION Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Beowulf Project Jack Walsh Anderson High School

FINAL PRESENTATION Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology My name is Jack Walsh and I teach 12th grade English at Anderson Union High School. My web site is My is This 12th Grade English lesson (standard 2.5) on World Culture allows students creation of power point slides related to Beowulf or Hamlet.

FINAL PRESENTATION Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Expectations Use of Dreamweaver for designing a web site To work with gifted professionals Create a lesson I could use in the classroom Practice Excel & Power Point

FINAL PRESENTATION Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Outcomes I learned the following: Web page creation in Netscape Composer How to FTP until I got all tingly inside Downloading and Uploading techniques Use of the Master in Power Point.

FINAL PRESENTATION Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Successes Students Very Enthusiastic Students Very Productive and Creative I was able to provide instruction and feed- back as students built their projects

FINAL PRESENTATION Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Successes Continued Meets Language-Arts Standards. Meets more than one standard. Use project for next WASC Other 12th Grade teacher able to use project

FINAL PRESENTATION Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Shortcomings Fifty-three minute period not long enough to work Lack of student knowledge of Power Point Students research skills limited Time for students to work on projects Lab not always available

FINAL PRESENTATION Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Student Data Students improved after I reworked the web site to include crucial information about vocabulary. Some students did not improve because they might possess low self-esteem. Grades Students

FINAL PRESENTATION Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology After adding “think sheets” link, scores improved.

FINAL PRESENTATION Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Improvement by Post Test

FINAL PRESENTATION Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

FINAL PRESENTATION Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Revisions After reviewing data I realized that the students did not do as well as I thought they would. I decided to revise the rubric and that helped a lot, but students did not achieve at mastery level as I had expected. I reworked the rubric and added some vocabulary definitions. Then I rewrote the pre and post tests.

FINAL PRESENTATION Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Summary This project helped me see how students might process information as they gather it from the web. We are becoming information gatherers and web projects are a good start opening the Internet to our students. I would further like to explore the use of streaming video on a web site, placing min-lessons for students who are sick or otherwise unable to attend the lesson in class that day.

FINAL PRESENTATION Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Student Presentation Enjoy two screen grabs from student-made Beowulf video.

FINAL PRESENTATION Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Student Work Beowulf Meets Star Wars

FINAL PRESENTATION Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Student Work

FINAL PRESENTATION Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology Thank You