Talk:Integrating Sequential Art into an English Language Arts Curriculum
Instructor Comments on your course -- Jz833665 16:54, 24 November 2009 (EST)
Kurt, nice catch up. You've created a nice flow for this course!
- Your introduction section could be more directly connected to education use/need. Why teachers should care? where it fits?
- Think about moving a classroom example to your unit 1 after you introducing what SA is, as an anchoring whole context.
- For each of the major (long) readings you used, you may provide a two-sentence overview/"organizer" of the reading to highlight what is there, and point the learners to certain sections of the readings they are very long.
- Remind the users to come back after they read outside resources. (you did most of the time)
- Your links in Unit 1 part 3 do not work and need to be fixed.
Sapphires Comments on your course -- Sapphire Gimenez 15:04, 5 December 2009 (EST)]]
Hi Kurt,
Again, you’ve got a real winner in attention catcher. Those graphics are terrific. I sent out an email to our group about this, but admittedly It was a little cumbersome. Here I pull from it the parts I think you might find helpful. They are templates I put together to help me fit in Gagne’s style of writing Objectives and Assessments. All you would have to do is fill in the blanks.
For Target and Performance objectives: [Situation], [LCV] [object] [action] [Tools/Constraints]
For creating an Assessment: [situation ] [type/form of test] [media technology] [role of assessment ] [performance task ] [validity ].
Hope you find this helpful
Sapphire
Sapphires Comments on your course -- [[--Sapphire Gimenez --Sapphire Gimenez 04:53, 30 November 2009 (EST) (EST)]]
Hi Kurt,
First, thank you for sending me information to help me upload my file.
I was looking for an instructional media for my project and came across something I think you can use also. As you can tell, I am not good with the computer so I will copy the URL (the http...thingy on the top) and hope you can reach it. It is http://www.slideshare.net/toolbox/free-educational-technology-tools ...well, this doesn't seem to link (I only say that because it doesn't turn blue) but I think you can copy it and look for it through google. It seems to allow youto upload movies and slide. It also references web 2.0
Hope its helpful to you.
Regards, Sapphire
Sapphires Comments on your course -- [[--Sapphire Gimenez 16:06, 27 November 2009 (EST)]]
Hi Kurt,
Your Course is very attractive. That sounds simplistic, but it is not meant to be. One of the biggest hurdles any teacher can have is arousing interest for the student. And, Friday after thanksgiving, with lots to do, I found your project very interesting to read (Color Choice, Graphics and Titles) So kudos for attracting your audience.
Now, in regards to a few things you might consider improving :
You seem to intermix your target audience. At one point I thought the lesson was for students to incorporate into their learning, then towards the end – Objective 2- 3 is obviously targeted for a teacher.
You might consider qualifying your audience and the prerequisites necessary to most effectively benefit from this course.
I look forward to the additions you will be adding.
Sapphire
-- Ben Blanchard 19:00, 28 November 2009 (EST)
Kurt,
I really like this course so far. The subject matter is well-suited to the medium, since the use of images actually is expected to some degree. Nice choice. I've been a fan of Scott McCloud for a while too, love the innovative web comics he has made.
I found only a few things I might change in your draft unit.
First, the use of the term "vocabulary items" to refer to the things those items denote. It's a bit unclear, for instance, in your assignment in Unit 1, part 3 whether the learners are being asked to look for the words ("panel", "gutter", etc.) or examples of the things the words refer to. A minor quibble.
Second, a navigation issue. The links back to main course page don't look the same everywhere. That can be confusing sometimes. I usually like to have navigation that goes "up a level" to the main page of something set off somehow visually, rather than just another list item in the navigation section.
Third, the links to the resources on comic-art.com are actually broken. They end in .html, but the actual pages have the DOS-style .htm extension. Another minor fix.
In general, I'm impressed and look forward to see the finished product!
-Ben
Barbara's Comments -- Barbara Recchio-Demmin 20:15, 28 November 2009 (EST)
Kurt I really like your course topic. I have just finished using a comic assignment in my 10th grade Spanish class. In my assignment the students were taught a list of special use verbs and they created a comic story using this list. We used makebeliefscomix.com. Although this site only creates a single strip (of 2 - 4 frames) at a time, and does not allow one to store files, they were able to complete a comic book by having the script written out before hand. I found this to be an excellent language exercise for them and the students really enjoyed the project. Your project is relevant and has educational value in any language classroom. I would only add a section under Unit 2: Why use.... and I would include the cultural value of using comics as a language learning tool. Great job so far. I'll be back when you get further along.