Jeremy and I created a puppet show on one of Piaget's four stages of development, concrete operational. We were able to teach this stage any way we wanted to, but felt that a puppet show would be the most entertaining. Performing the show was nerve wrecking, and fun at the same time. The last time I performed a puppet show was probably early elementary school. Click here for video.
The hardest part for me was uploading the video. It took me several attempts to upload it online. I finally decided that maybe my internet was too slow. I went to work the next day and attempted to upload the video on Vimeo. It worked instantly. Now I know to upload all my videos at work :)
Overall it was a stressful but fun experience. I think it was worth it and plan on creating future short videos, maybe puppet shows. This would be a great idea to do with the students, when they are presenting projects, especially with the various privacy options.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Analyzing Student Data in a Spreadsheet
I surprisingly enjoyed doing the spreadsheet on Google. I love the fact that I could calculate the average, sum, median of rows/columns of numbers instantly. I've had some experience using Microsoft Excel, but never on Google Spreadsheets. I started by watching the video tutorials, it was pretty straight forward. It was super easy and fast using Google spreadsheet. I feel like it's lot more user friendly then Excel.
Click here to access the spreadsheet.
Looking at the graph we could see that the majority of the class that scored below average performed better as the class progressed. All but one student improved on the last test, Queen. Queen, was slowly improving but she scored 5 points lower on test 10. Most of the students had steady improvements. Approximately half of the students had significant improvements and did better then the class average on the last test. For example Dan received a 170 on test 6, and improved on several of the following tests. He scored 215 on the last test. It also looks like a couple of students like Katherine, had on and off days. Where they improved significantly on one test and did worse on the next.
As a teacher, I think I would follow up with the students that are performing poorly and see how they are understanding the subjects. Also, I think it would be a good idea to stay after school to have a help session for the students that need the extra assistance. I would probably check up on what's going on with the personal lives of the students that have had unstable test scores.
Click here to access the spreadsheet.
Looking at the graph we could see that the majority of the class that scored below average performed better as the class progressed. All but one student improved on the last test, Queen. Queen, was slowly improving but she scored 5 points lower on test 10. Most of the students had steady improvements. Approximately half of the students had significant improvements and did better then the class average on the last test. For example Dan received a 170 on test 6, and improved on several of the following tests. He scored 215 on the last test. It also looks like a couple of students like Katherine, had on and off days. Where they improved significantly on one test and did worse on the next.
As a teacher, I think I would follow up with the students that are performing poorly and see how they are understanding the subjects. Also, I think it would be a good idea to stay after school to have a help session for the students that need the extra assistance. I would probably check up on what's going on with the personal lives of the students that have had unstable test scores.
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