Kevin Norris
Reading and Thinking Notes, Week 8
Professor Rodrigo
October 12, 2014

     Cheryl E Ball’s Article, “Reassessing MultiModal and New media Rubrics for Use in Writing Studies,” discussed the limitation of rubrics. The author argues that rubric are often not evaluated themselves and that instructors use them to make them easier to grade. I personally use rubrics for every major assignment. Yes, it does make the assignments easier to grade, but it also makes the grading more objective as opposed to subjective, and it lets the students know what they are being graded on.
    The author mentions six modes of communication. These are the following: linguistic, audio, spatial, gestural, visual, and multimodal, which are all ways to produce meaning in a multimedia product. 

    Furthermore, to help teachers analyze multimodal four stata were developed. The author argues that the reader is unable to make meaning of the four strata; however, it does show how.



(Dalton)
Though the above rubric mentions Visual design, it’s explanations are vague.

    The author discusses Ingrid Ankerson’s “While Chopping Red Peppers.” It is brilliant use as a symbol to represent cutting her life off from her father.
 



     

    The author mentions Manovich’s five principles of analysis for new media.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA8x4BZdwVo

  The above video discusses Manovich’s ideas.

   The author emphasizes that the principles involved with traditional writing as compared to new media is quite different, and it is important the reader and writer are able to disginqish between the two
Works Cited
Dalton, Bridget. ” Remembering when we were young: A book memories project.” March 29, 2012. Web. 10 October 2014.


    Chanon Adsanatham article “ Integrating Assessment and Instruction: Using Student-Generated Grading Criteria to Evaluate Mulitmodal Digital Projects “ discussed having the student come up with the criteria for evaluating a document/project. The author was concerned with how he or she would grade a students project and pondered on the idea of having students come up with the citeria. The rational is that it helps student learn how to evaluate their own work. This reminds me of when I taught elementary school. The students and I came up with the rules for the class.

    This was supposed to give ownership to the students. It also helps develop reading and writing skills. The article gives ways to assess student’s presentation. The method was developed by Lee Odwell and Susan Katz which included evaluating students’ ability to integrate information using multimedia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwmYWBIRRBA

Youtube presentation on creating Rubrics.

    The author had their students view video clips, which served as a scaffolding device. This reminds me of the STEM program that I’m piloting. We use videos as one the ways to teach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33IjFmUoAPs
A video on teaching with video.

    Overall, the article emphasizes the importance of having students participate in creating the grading rubric. The author feels that it empowers student to understand that they will be graded, students are able to give feedback, and it helps motivate students. I personally don’t know if I could do this. I’ve tried to do this with my clientele before, but they don’t take it seriously.




3D Game Lab
    This evening on my quest in the “3D Game Lab” I read through the journals. On the left of the journals, there were a plethora of videos. I looked through some of the video. Flacju’s video gave directions on how to use 3D Game Lab. I’m still wondering how I get points.
    The second video I watched was “Second Life” video. It spoke about all the application again. When I went to look at it again, a commercial came on discussing STEM. It spoke about why it was developed, which was to put the United States on the global map with regards to science, technology, engineering and math. Each time I clicked on the video, a new video came on. This one spoke about technology and how it is being utilized in school.


Notetaking Challenge-Prezi
    Prezi is an online presentation device. There are several programs. Each program offers a free month’s trial offer.
After signing up, you create a “New Prezi.” From there, it asks you to choose from a multitude of templates. From there, it allows you insert text, images, videos, etc…The good news is that it allows you directly search the internet for information. The cool thing is that when you insert a video from Youtube, you don’t get just a link.
I have never used Prezi before, but when I taught seniors, several of my students used it. These were seniors. I don’t know if it would work with freshmen since it requires a credit card.




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