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Beowulf Project

Beowulf Project. Jack Walsh Anderson High School. My name is Jack Walsh and I teach 12th grade English at Anderson Union High School. My web site is http://ctap295.ctaponline.org/~jwalsh/ My e-mail is jwalsh@anderson.k12.ca.us This 12th Grade English lesson (standard 2.5)

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Beowulf Project

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  1. Beowulf Project Jack Walsh Anderson High School CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

  2. My name is Jack Walsh and I teach 12th grade English at Anderson Union High School. My web site is http://ctap295.ctaponline.org/~jwalsh/ My e-mail is jwalsh@anderson.k12.ca.us This 12th Grade English lesson (standard 2.5) on World Culture allows students creation of power point slides related to Beowulf or Hamlet. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

  3. 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 CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

  4. 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. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

  5. Successes • Students Very Enthusiastic • Students Very Productive and Creative • I was able to provide instruction and feed- • back as students built their projects CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

  6. Successes Continued • Meets Language-Arts Standards. • Meets more than one standard. • Use project for next WASC • Other 12th Grade teacher able to use project CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

  7. 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 CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

  8. Student Data Grades Students 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. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

  9. After adding “think sheets” link, scores improved. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

  10. Improvement by Post Test CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

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  12. 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. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

  13. 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. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

  14. Student Presentation Enjoy two screen grabs from student-made Beowulf video. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

  15. Student Work Beowulf Meets Star Wars CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

  16. Student Work CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

  17. Thank You CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

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