Salvatore Viola Portfolio
My name is Melissa Boucher I graduated from Buffalo State with a degree in Technology Education. I currently work at Troy Middle school while pursuing my masters degree at UAlbany. I'm 25 years old and live Latham, NY. Over the summer I work at a camp that is technology driven and helps develop skills of excelling students. In my free time I enjoy watching football, playing guitar and reading.
My Topic/Purpose
The intention of this course is to instruct how to enhance project based learning with Google applications. However the course will begin with instruction on how to create a Project that can be considered project based learning. Then the course will begin to instruct on how to make a project better using google applications.
Needs Assessment
This needs assessment will be based off of a survey completed by ten middle school teachers. All teachers involved are currently employed in a urban school district. The school provides a significant amount of technology that is intended to be implemented within each teachers class. The survey was provided to teachers that have a wide range of technology experience and therefore skill.
Results of Assessment:
After completing the survey linked above participants showed a need to learn about the following areas:
- How to design a Project that can be used for Project Based Learning
- What is Google Sketchup and how it can help Project Based Learning
- How Google Docs can facilitate meaningful collaboration within a project.
- How to Assess a project using Google Sites.
Analysis of the Learner and Context
This course is intended for teachers that have employment with a school district that has access to computers either desktops or chromebooks. Also students of this course need to have an interest in attempting a way of teaching that is not lecture prominent and leaves the instructor taking on a facilitation role.
Performance Objectives
By the end of this course students will be able to:
- Create a Project that is designed to guide the class in its learning process throughout a unit.
- Set up a google doc to facilitate collaboration.
- Instruct on how Sketchup is beneficial for modeling.
- Assess a project by having students use Google Sites.
Task Analysis
Prerequisites Necessary to participate in this course:
- Must have a Google account
- Basic skills in Google Docs ( Ex. Sharing a doc)
- Basic skills in Google Sites
Unit 1 - How to Create a Project - Students will be able to identify the systematic steps involved with creating a project for a project based learning assignment. - Students will be able to explain and demonstrate all steps by creating their own project.
Unit 2 - Google Docs and Collaboration
-Students will be able to create a Google Doc format that will be conducive for collaboration. -Students will be able to prepare for Google doc issues and create a doc that will remove a portion of the issues.
Unit 3 - Google Sites and Project Assessment
-Students will be able to create an assessment for their projects that are not testing based.
-Students will be able to use Google sites as a way for to assess student knowledge and skill level, that was clarified in the objectives.