Futuring

Assessment:

Fox Becomes a Better Person

This performance showed a tremendous amount of work from Hannah. It is obvious that she worked hard to memorize the story about Fox. She drew pictures to illustrate her story and learned some Tlingit words. I would, of course, need a rubric before giving Hannah a grade.

Hannah gets a four in creativity. The story was a bit confusing as Fox transitioned into a better person. She could also work on having better eye contact. However, are these items on the rubric? I think that overall it is a wonderful piece.

School Train

In contrast, School Train was annoying at best. Was it necessary for the students to make faces at the camera? What was the point of using whispered Spanish phrases? Again, I would need a rubric to grade this project. The music did not enhance the idea behind the metaphor, and I do not see that every child has proven their understanding of the metaphor from this clip.
In the Classroom:

epic2015

The introduction to this clip almost gave me a migraine. In fact, working on the computer too much makes me dizzy. As far as Podcasting and its impacts on my classroom, I do not think much of technology so it is hard for me to get into that mindset. I still do not really understand what exactly a podcast is. Even so, I would feel good about getting news specifically from the francophone world by podcasts to use in my classroom. However, I feel that the clip epic2015 told us that, overall, we would be getting a lot of half-truths and fake news from future internet sources. I might stick with more reliable, primary news sources.