Friday was crazy trying to get the podcasts together. The first student would get one in good shape, then you help someone else. Then you preview the first student again and it's a mess. As a result, the "about the reviewer" pages didn't get done. Also, I thought the podcast pages were supposed to be blank. We spent all day today redoing those.
Any suggestions on how to get kids to 1. focus and not spend hours fiddling with design 2. listen and apply ideas of good design?
As a result, I did not have time to work on logos in Word, as I had said to Ms. Moran. Dumped the revised podcast pages in dropbox today @ 4:24. Dropbox does not really work on the laptop I have, so I have to use another computer for that. It's annoying.
FYI Gael is sending me away Tuesday. I really don't want a snow day; let's pray for blue skies!
If you haven't already done peer review, you may want to try that. Put students into groups (I would have 3-4 per group to elicit the best responses.) Each student will present his/her work (pages doc, podcast, etc) to their group. Each other member of the group gives feedback. I usually structure it by having each student say one or two things they liked best and one or two specific things they think need improvement. You may need to model this so that students don't give generic feedback. For example, it isn't helpful to say "It isn't very interesting." Rather, give specific advice like, "You could attract people's interest by adding more color and more pictures to your page."
ReplyDeleteIf you have already done something like this, you may need to go outside your classroom. Ask Mrs. Heinz if her students could be peer reviewers for yours. They have been mentoring the other 5th grade class and have gotten very good at it.
A second thing is, do you have a specific rubric for what you want from students? I know we didn't develop one together, but it would really help students to see what you are looking for. I'm attaching a rubric I did for a podcast. It isn't exactly what you need, but it could give you some ideas. I would have one rubric for the podcast and one for the pages doc and go over them with the students.
Here is a link to the podcast rubric: http://tinyurl.com/4sg3go5
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