UMNH Observation Module
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as little reading as possible, using video, draw attention
We were talking about the learning theories should be associated with our capstone project, Schema: Modeling and Scaffolding are the three main theories we currently can see from our project, and I will further clarify them later.
After today's meeting and discussion, we all feel that we get a better idea and clearer mind on our project. Firstly, while trying to balance our client's requirements, we really should stick to our project and designs based on the learning and instructional theories; Secondly, instead of all of the six people (Yes, we have the biggest group ever!) working together on every stage and detail, we divided our main responsibilities. Just contribute more on whichever part you are interested and capable of. With this, we divided as below:
Website: Josh will start building the layout of our Classification module, Kathy will meet Aron next Monday for suggestions and possible technical help. The website need MySQL and PHP skills, Kathy is MySQL teacher, so she will do more job on the coding things (which I don't know). Claire is willing to do some graphic works, but this is my main job for now.
Classification Activity Materials: Matt is doing research and picking 15-20 birds out of the 50 birds Heather provided to us. The qualified ones should share one or more similar characteristics with 3 or 4 other birds. This is not an easy job, more like doing a pretty complicated puzzle and memory game among the 50 pictures.
Video: Cathy and Claire will take on this part. Instead of doing a simple introduction video for our learning module, we decided to go further and deeper. So in this way, before doing the classification activity, the students should be prepared and get a clearer idea on how to complete the task. Since we are mainly working on the videos, I will further expand this part in the next journal.
Assessment and Testing: Denice will be in main charge of the testing and assessment since her husband is 4th grade teacher and he also has a lab of 15 laptops for students working together. We are so blessed to have such a great resource!
Other: All other design parts like building the characteristic table, revising, completing the portfolio, etc will be ongoing works that everybody will share a portion.
We now feel much much more comfort and much much much much more confident about our project.
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