FRIT 7430: UbD Stage 1 Assignment

Shannon Morris FRIT 7738: Practicum Stage 1, Understanding by Design Spring 2013 Staff Development

FRIT 7430: UbD Stage 1 Assignment

UbD Stage 1 Template

Title of Prezi Presentations Unit Curriculum English/Language Arts Area Grade Teachers Level Time 1 hour Frame

Stage 1 Identify Desired Results

Content Standards: NETS-T 2. Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETSS. a. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity b. Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress c. Customize and personalize learning activities to address students diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources d. Provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching

Understandings
Participants will understand that: Incorporating technology in the classroom is important for students Including technology can mean branching out to new technological advances. There are technology standards. The Web 2.0 tool, Prezi, is a useful, fun, and simple way to incorporate technology into lessons.

Related Misconceptions: Integrating technology into lesson plans is too time consuming. Integrating technology into lesson plans is not worth the effort.

Essential Questions

FRIT 7430: UbD Stage 1 Assignment Overarching Questions: Topical Questions: How can Prezi help me in my How can a teacher incorporate classroom? technology into a lesson? How can I effectively and simply What does incorporating technology use Prezi in the classroom? into a lesson mean? How can students use Prezi?

Knowledge and Skills Knowledge

Participants will know: Prezi is a valuable instrument that teachers and students can effectively use to fashion lectures or demonstrations. There are technology standards that must be met along with academic standards.

Skills
Participants will be able to: Create a useful Prezi presentation.

FRIT 7430: UbD Stage 1 Assignment

Stage 2 Evidence Performance Task(s)

Goal: To instruct teachers in designing an aesthetically pleasing and academically effective prezi presentation and for those teachers to be able to do this independently Role: The instructor of this class will facilitate the use and engagement of the Prezi program Audience: administrators and teachers of various levels and subject areas from the Bleckley County School System Situation: Teachers need a new and innovative way to engage students in the classroom Product Performance and Purpose: Teachers and administrators will be able to use Prezi to replace current products of instruction to bring fresh perspective to their students Standards and Criteria for Success: Teachers must create a useful Prezi presentation for use in their respective classrooms.

Students Self-reflection and Assessment

After creating a Prezi presentation based on an appropriate standard according to what she teaches, participants will reflect on the process and whether it will be useful in their respective classes. The participant will then revise as needed to ensure that the presentation will be beneficial to the best of their knowledge. Later, after using the Prezi in class, the participant will reflect again on the ease of use and usefulness of the Prezi during an actual lesson.

FRIT 7430: UbD Stage 1 Assignment

Stage 3: Learning Experiences

1. Ask: How can we incorporate technology effectively in the classroom? 2. Discuss the Prezi software and how it can be used. 3. Introduce the Prezi software presentation and then show examples that could be used in a classroom. http://prezi.com/onqvs4i38w0o/what-is-prezi/?kw=viewonqvs4i38w0o&rc=ref-1935983 (example prezi) http://prezi.com/f0-rr8gr6j0i/simple-machine-prezi/?kw=view-f0rr8gr6j0i&rc=ref-1935983 (prezi for a classroom lesson)
4. Instruct participants in signing up for an account 5. Go to prezi.com 6. Click on sign up 7. Click Public sign up now 8. Type in personal info (name, email) 9. Click sign up 10. Instruct participants in creating a Prezi that can be used in their own classroom 11. Participants will reflect on/discuss whether they think the Prezi will be a useful tool in the classroom Questions to promote discussion: How will you use what you have learned? What was the most useful part of this staff development? Why? What was the least useful part of this staff development? Why? What additional training/support do you need? 12. After presenting the Prezi in their own classrooms, participants will reflect again on the experience Questions to promote reflection:

How have you used the Prezi program? What was the most useful part of the Prezi program? Will you use Prezi in your classroom again? What additional training/support do you need?