Final Posting- Project is almost done!

Hi Everyone! The only thing left to do on my project is finish up typing my report. It was been a rewarding experience not only for me to learn about the different types of social media uses and the cool things they can do, but also to share that knowledge with others. That is what I hope to do in the future, so I was glad that I was able to jumpstart this goal through this course. I hope everyone has a great holiday break and rest the semester!

And so it goes!

Hello Everyone! So I had my presentation on Wednesday, and while I enticed with free food, only two particpants showed up. However, I wasn't going to let that rain on my parade- we had a good time! The students there were actually really interested in using the technology in the classroom, and found the activities really fun, and I enjoyed doing them along with them! Here's a picture of our word wall we made as an introductory activity:

Now to work on the analysis part and finish up this project!

Tomorrow's the Big Day!

Hi Everyone! So tomorrow is the big day- I present to my participants tomorrow! I hope that I have a great group of people. Today, I'm putting the finishing touches on my Prezi Presentation and make sure I have all my components together to make sure that my presentation goes smoothly. I'll be back later this week with comments on how it went!

Spread the Word!

Hey Everyone!

Since I was able to make this awesome flyer with Piktochart, I thought I would share it with you as well! I have a couple projects I'm using the flyer for besides my IDT 516 one. Hope you like it!

Update #2

Hi Everyone!

I hope everyone has had a great week! While I have been busy, I did take some time to refine some parts of my lesson plan- Thanks for your input! I've also been working on creating my post lesson survey. I'm using my favorite new tool Google Forms to create it, as I love how all the responses fall into one place. I hope to have more updates in the next couple days as well. It's all starting to take shape!

Rough Draft!

Hi Everyone!

I know it's almost Thanksgiving Break, and I am feeling ready for a break, but I wanted to put this out here for everyone to give feedback. Here is a link to my rough draft of my lesson- let me know what you think!

My Rough Draft!

Update #1

Hi Everyone!

So now that I've got the ball rolling on my project, these past couple of days I have secured locations, dates, and times to complete my lessons. Now I must work on marketing to my student population so that they will attend! Do you have any suggestions on how to market/advertise to get people to attend presentations? I am going entice with free food and bright posters all over the music department, but any other suggestions would be gladly welcomed!

Also, I'm beginning to work on my lesson plans, and determining the best fit for how to tie in music educator standards and teacher technology standards into the curriculum- this way it is beneficial for the students.

Finally, I'm working on developing the actual activities. I'm so glad that we have done some research on my topics in this class, so I already have a great foundation to work on.

Hope Everyone has a great week!

Final Project- IDT 516

Hey Everyone!

So I've been stewing somewhat over this final project, trying to think of a topic that I would enjoy, could use in the future, and fits in my time frame- lots of variables! My situation is unique in that I have a large population of participants accessible to me in that I am a graduate assistant on campus, and so I interact with students everyday. However, since I work in the music office, most of the students I encounter are music education students. Therein lies my question- what can I bring to them that they would find useful in their future classrooms?

One of the most influential forces in our current student's lives is driven through social media. Therefore, I feel we should find ways to embrace it in our classroom. My initial thought for my final project is to do an overview of how to use social media in your classroom, with an emphasis on practice uses for music education and speciality courses. I plan on focusing on three social media tools that I feel could be most useful and most easily implemented in their classrooms: Twitter, Pinterest, and Wikis (through Pbworks or Google Drive).

My hope for this lesson is not just for future educators to get training on how to use these technologies, but actually use them during the lesson, and get practice on using these tools before they must teach and advise students on how to use them. While I feel that these future educators have a pretty good grasp on using technology, I want to make sure that they have ideas and strategies to focus that knowledge into having a more efficient, engaging classroom.

Objectives: Students will be able to.....
1. Explain the purpose of social media in their classroom
2. Demonstrate and Implement Twitter into their classroom.
3. Demonstrate and Implement Pinterest into their classroom.
4. Demonstrate and Implement Wikis into their classroom.

My setup of my lesson would be something similar to this:

1. Introduction and Why Social Media?

2. Social Media Tool #1- Twitter
2a. How to use Twitter
2b. Using Twitter Activity

3.  Social Medial Tool #2- Pinterest
2a. How to use Pinterest
2b. Using Pinterest Activity

4. Social Media Tool #3- Wikis
4a. How to use Wikis
4b. Using wikis activity

5. Wrap-Up and Q&A

I think for this lesson I would like to use a survey to see what students liked, didn't like, and how effective they felt my presentation was, so that I can reflect on that and make it more engaging in the future.

What do you think? Feel free to comment and give suggestions- Thanks!