Outcome

Victoria did very well on her research. I feel the process would have been better if we would have had more time to work on the research portion of the service project the end result would have been better. Time constraints are not good.

Creating the Movie

Victoria and I worked on the storyboard on paper and had to put it on the web because she was getting a little tired. I wrote down everything she said and helped her input the pics, sound, and transitions. Since the music sites I went to last time did not work for me, we decided not to use music. Again, if we would have had more time I would have had her do the project on her own, with a little bit of scaffolding. I uploaded the video onto teacher tube to get the embedding code. I demonstrated and explained to her what I was doing. She was a bit confused because I was going a little too fast for her. All in all she did learn somethings about her topic she was researching. I asked her what she learned and she was able to explain to me about her topic. I even learned something about her topic.

Victoria's Research

I started her on research today. She has a link to her KWL chart with her questions she wants to answer. We are using two different laptops. I had to rent a laptop for the week so we would be able to do this project in such a short period of time. If I had more time to show her how to research and use the internet tools I would have just demonstrated and then have her do it. For now she is going to shadow me. She started with her first question "when did they make games?" She could not find any information. I had her go to www.askkids.com to search for her question and she couldn't come up with anything. Next, I had her go to www.dogpile.com since I found out today two of my fellow classmates received a virus after using the links that were provided on webct. She still couldn't find anything. I advised her to narrow her question a little more. She revised her question to ask: "When did they make video game?" After doing this she found some results and was able to answer her question. I then had her go onto a word processor and type up her information. Once she was done I emailed it to her mom to post onto her blog. I only had her research this question because of time constraints and technology problems. We then made a movie on her findings. I started the project for her on my laptop and we did the project together because, for me, this was a little difficult and she is an eleven year old who has been put under a little pressure. All of the research she did on her own. I did have to scaffold a little every now and then but that was to be expected.

My Service Project

I started the project by creating a blog for my student. The essential question: How do we communicate? The unit question: How does gaming impact the way we communicate? She then filled out the KWL chart posted on my google docs. Victoria is a bright young girl who has agreed to do this project . We started very late because of technical difficulties. I have provided an inquiry based approach. Because of time constraints I am unable to show her everything that I have been taught about educational technology. With the inquiry based approach I am able to guide her using the questions she wants to answer.