"According to Marzano's original meta-analysis (l998), using graphic representations had one of the highest impacts on student achievement." Inspiration, Microsoft Word Drawing toolbar, and SmartTools with SmartBoards are mentioned as excellent resources for non-linguistic representation. It is encouraging that these tools are at our fingertips and technology can be incorporated into existing lessons. I especially like the sound of Inspiration's Template folder that can be used for vocabulary. This would be a meaningful and engaging method to introduce and/or review vocabulary. The cause and effect graphic organizer in Word would deepen understanding.
"Research indicates that multimedia has the most effect on student learning when the student is the creator (Siegle & Foster, 2000). Once again, I feel lucky that we have items in place to help with this. Flip video cameras, the digital camera and movie maker are all tools we can use to enhance student learning.
Note-taking and summarizing are skills students need to perfect since they will be using these throughout their educational career. Once again, many of these tools are items we already have. I like the idea of AutoSummarize in Word and using pictographs and Blogs.
I'm excited about the technology that is being used in all our classes! I know change is not always easy but this is what is best for kids. As Frederick Wilcox said, "Progress involves risk. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first."
I'm using a blog in the classroom with reading. Students are posting a brief summary and then recommending or not, the book to others. I'm amazed at how much they are vested in this. I don't believe I'd of gotten the quality if I'd asked them to complete this using paper and pencil.
ReplyDeleteWe are exploring 2 new stroy maker web sites. These sites prompt with visuals to help students create meaningful stories. I'm excited to see what the results will be.
Students are also very excited at the prospect of creating their SMART board game. This won't be till next quarter but they are already thinking about it as we explore the options on SMART. Veronica
I am getting mixed results from the creation of my Blog. I had hoped to hear from more parents on it regarding the homework notes, availability of in depth explanations of projects, and explanations of classroom procedures. As a matter of course, I am finding that the students use the Blog more than the parents for the very same reasons as stated above.
ReplyDeleteI am hoping to expand the Blog into one which is a venue for finished projects; an electronic bulletin board, if you will. I need a better understanding of the technology in order to do this. I'll have to tap into the expertise of a faculty member or two to get this up and running.
Matt
Looking at Chps. 5,6,nonlinguistic representation and notetaking and summarizing are critical in the classroom. They are to elaborate on knowledge presented in the classroom. I will use the ideas of graphic organizers in Word and Inspiration. The examples of Cause and Effect would work in math and in Rooster Reading. Doing Christmas Carol, it would do well to create a cause and effect graphic to explain how Scrooge became the old miser he was.
ReplyDeleteI will also move ahead to the digital world and fine a frame of a time lapse movie. It would work better in Science, but I think I could do prime and composite numbers.
Using animations in power point would create excited learners to present multi step process of story problems.
Summarizing and Notetaking would serve itself well in Microsoft Word. The students would much prefer to summarize a literature piece in word than having to write by hand. Putting mathematical vocabulary in a graphic in inspirtation would help with pnemonics for kids to remember their vocabulary.
I loved the problem/solution frame on page 127
1)What is the problem?
2)What is a possible solution
3)What is another possible solution?
4)What is another possible solution?
5)Which solution has the best chance of succeeding?
There is not a lot of notetaking in math, but it ceratinly could apply to story problems and vocabulary. Thanks for exposing us to Blogs. Joy Lucht
Chapt 5 was of particular interest to me, because it was reinforcing the value of visual learning. I liked the idea of the Sequence pattern organizer. I think that having an ongoing time line to add to would be nice. I already have a timeline in place in my room, but reinforcing the concepts that we go over in class would be good. It would also be a great way to review, by having students place artwork, artist, style periods, and events in the correct time period.
ReplyDeleteI do think that some, but not all, of the ideas about animation are cool but time consuming. This time to teach how to do it and then have the students complete an assignment may take several days. This would probably be best utalized if saved for large concepts or final projects. Or, perhaps some of the ideas could be set up ahead of time in presentations by the teacher. Simple animation such video clips would probably be better used for quick assignments.
Note taking and summerizing is something that many students struggle with. Organizing thoughts and summing up what was said by the teacher, powerpoint or text always seems to be difficult. I think that any form of reinforcement is always a good thing. Thinking back to when I taught high school, so many struggled with notetaking, and I always wondered what they would do when they got to college. Giving the students multiple tools for notetaking at a younger age would hopefully show greater results. I thought the auto summarize was a neat concept, I would like to try it out to see how effective it is in picking up the key points.
I liked chapter five because it talks about involving the students in the creative process. I looked at one of the websites at iKnowthat.com...Veronica had mentioned it to me prior to reading about it. The website allows students to compose music, play it back on all different kinds of instruments, and save their work. This might be an alternative to my smartnotebook project since it expands the creation process to include instruments and looks appealing.
ReplyDeleteAs far as video making/animation goes, I am planning an animoto project in the library next semester. The kids will research a musician of their choice and create an animoto project with images, text, and sound recordings to display their knowledge of their musician. I'm interested to see what how the students react to the project and to see the final products.
In chapter 6, I like the idea of using Inspiration to summarize the texts of our concert repertoire. The topic-restriction-illustration frame questions on pg. 127 would be an easy way to help students focus on the main idea of the texts and to really understand what they are singing about.
In my last walk through in the reflection it asked about the Word Wall and how to make it more effective in the classroom and I thought about the idea of inspiration and making the students come up with the connections between the words. As I was reading this, I thought wow I thought about this idea.
ReplyDeleteI would like to be able to be creative enough and find a way to implement the videoing in class. If anyone has any good ideas please share with me!
I do like the idea about using blogs for the reading groups. I had read an article about this before and was very interested. I think the kids would be more willing to do the summaries and note-taking if they were able to use the technology. I am excited about the email accounts and the access to the blogging for rooster reading and implementing this into my math classes also!!
Inspiration is one of my favorites as for setting up notes and outlines. I like to put things in the web and then organize my thoughts with the outlines. I use this for my own personal use as well as in the classroom.
Nonlinguistic representation does effect the achievement of students. Reflecting back on my high school days, projects that required something to be generatedhasn't been forgotten. I remember producing a computer program game but don't recall the discussion prior to that. The conceptual/descriptive pattern organizers would be a good way to work with vocabulary in all content areas. The generalization/principle pattern organizers could be used for math in describing the order of operations and other multi-step problems. Students would really enjoy creating movies/videos that would demonstrate their knowledge on a subject...the drawback in doing this would be the time involved.
ReplyDeleteThe Inspiration templates are very good ways to implement note taking within the classroom. I agree that using a variety of note taking strategies would increase student achievement. We currently have a note taking book that we use in math class where the kids fill in vocabulary and do examples of the problems. If I were to use electronic note taking, I would probably start with an area that we didn't do well on the MAP testing. I like how Vereonica mentioned that her students do blogs when summarizing stories they have read. Blogs are great for posting and questions and answers and could be easily used by students. Again, I love the web resources posted in each chapter.
I agree that Nonlinguistic Representation has a dramatic impact on the students' ability to reflect and recall knowledge. I have hand signals that I use with them for certain things I want them to remember and they draw pictures to go with their vocabulary nearly every week. Having access to different applications and software to increase NR is very interesting to me and something I would like to attempt in my classroom, as I see the benefit from the "ancient" things I am already doing. Some of the ideas mentioned in Ch.5 seem a little overwhelming and time consuming, but I'm sure there are ways to adapt them to my needs, I just have to look a little futher into them.
ReplyDeleteSummarizing and Note Taking are definitely things our 5th graders continue to need help with, and I like that this chapter gave different ways to present both things in ways that kids could see immediate results from trying. Having done the Inspiration mind mapping templates before, I can attest to the effectivenss of that method. I also liked the problem/solution frame given on pg.127 to help students think out what they are being asked to find. Actually all of the resources presented in Ch.6 were great and I would like to find ways to incorporate them into my classroom in some form or another. There just seems to be so much information out there, so it becomes just a matter of finding what will fit my students' needs.
There are many different learning styles but it has been my personal experience that nonlinguistic representations certainly cements knowledge in the long term memory. My students seem to comprehend and remember concepts where they draw a symbol or use a mnemonic device. I would hope with practice using a word processor to duplicate what has in the past been done by hand would have the same impact on learning. My math students have always had difficulty with graphs and charts. I think that it would help them if they were able to create using the computer so that it would be modeled the correct way. I still feel that it is important that they would follow through with constructing graphs/charts by hand and compare the two. There was some interesting ways to use the technology for notetaking. These ideas would be a great tool to use in Rooster Reading. Chapter 5 had more of an impact on me because I am truly consumed with what I can do to help my math students.
ReplyDeleteI really like using the graphic organizers for notetaking. Notetaking is such a hard skill for my students. Most of our notetaking is done in science and social studies. The graphic helps students to choose important information for their notes rather than just copying from the book. I want to try the multimedia summaries for a book report. I think that would be very motivating to students.
ReplyDeleteThe ProScope Digital Microscope looks awesome. I also liked the time-lapse movie for plant growth.
I wish I could find more time to just experiment with things.
One idea I took from reading these chapters involves the website that helps students create timelines about people. When we do our reports about famous Black Americans, I'm going to have them also create a timeline of the person's significant life events/achievements. I think this will be a helpful way to have them visualize the impact these Americans have had on our society.
ReplyDeleteI try to use a lot of visual learning in my classroom to help my CWC students at least get a visual understanding of what we are going over. I like the idea of using the note-taking templates and fitting them to my needs. I have my students make foldables when we take notes, but to switch it up I could try one of the templates and map out the notes and I can then show the students how the information we are discussing is related. I would also like to start showing more video clips in my classroom. I feel lucky that I have the technology to be able to do things like show video clips. That is one concept I would like to do more of in my classroom. Talking about a subject and then showing them a short media clip will just reinforce what you are trying to get across to them. This will also open up discussion among your students about what you talked about during notes and comparing it to what they watched.
ReplyDeleteI think that both chapters offered many great ideas and I wish that I had more time to explore some of the websites that they suggested. My favorite was the chapter on non-linquistic representation and I like the idea of using some of the pattern organizers which I feel would work well with my curriculum.
ReplyDeleteI liked the timeline idea, and anything to help with learning vocabulary. I am finding the students enjoy working with the computer, as I am having them comment on current events using the blog. Getting them to really write much is what I am running into. I think the more we use the computers, the better.
ReplyDeleteI feel with vocaublary the visual pictures they find would be better than what they are able to draw. Not that they aren't good at drawing, I just don't think they always grasp what the word really means.
We do a time line event over the Civil War, I am anxious to try this idea mentioned in the book to help with this activity.
There were so many ideas in Chapter 5 & 6 that it was hard to keep up. I know I will be looking back at these chapters a lot.
ReplyDeleteThe vocabulary ideas and using movies and video clips were of great interest to me. I try to pull up Google images at times to help my students. I have found that there are MANY vocabulary terms that they just don't know. Just last week, we were discussing skiiing. Most didn't know what snow skiing and water skiing were. We had to find pictures to illustrate what skiing was.
In chapter 6, I loved the rules for summarizing. I plan to use them - even post them - for the students. Summarizing is one of the MOST difficult things for my kids. The variety of note taking ideas was great. I also loved the idea on p124 - with the upside down T chart.
I really liked these two chapters. I need to involve my classes with inspiration. I really liked the template that could be used with concept maps or mind maps. Next time we do one together I intend to try it. I also liked all the web sites that are available. I need to explore them while they are still around and free.
ReplyDeleteThe chapter on summerizing and note taking was particularily interesting for me as I do a lot of both in my classroom. Just without all the technology. I too thought the autosummarizing would be good to use. I liked their idea of using it to check a students rough draft for main points and to see if what they had written was what they had intended. I thought the use of summary frames would be useful.
Chapters five and six are full of great information. I remember being excited to check out many of the sites within these chapters. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to yet because of lack of time. Now that I'm feeling caught up on my CA work I feel that I can browse the sites. My team and I are planning on spending at least ten minutes during each team plan to research the sites.
ReplyDeleteI think the information on multimedia is very interesting. It would be fun to do a from of readers theater with Rooster Reading. I did use the digital cameras for my book talk this year. The students really enjoyed the lesson.
I like the section on summarizing. I didn't realize Word had this option. I think this would be helpful for students.
OK - This is the third time I have typed this blog...so this will be the condensed version. I enjoyed the section on the power point presentation. I do one in the spring, and this will help me make it more meaningful for the students. I did learn to have the students do all of the research before touching the presentation, because it ends up being more of a great presenation with very little content.
ReplyDeleteI am also going to utilize the time line when doing the scientist and inventors unit. It is important for them to visualize when events happened.
It was also good to learn that Word has the capability of helping students learn to summarize more efficiently.
I think nonlinguistic representation would be good to try for my class. If the students were able to visualize how the game was set up first before instructions, able to see the game played out, able to see how rules to the game are followed I think it would cut out confusion and a lot of questions. Using SmartBoard and its interactions may be the most useful tool for me. Inspiration may help with word wall terms that are common in multiple sports. A term connected to a picture of different sports may remind and reinforce that a word has multiple meanings. (example: passing-football is throwing, passing-soccer is kicking, dribbling in basketball is with hands, dribbling in soccer is with foot.) I think there is a lot of good information in chapter 5, but it seems a little overwhelming at times.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I do not use note taking in my class, I think it is a very important strategy for the students to learn at an early age. I only remember one note taking strategy from high school and I continued to use it through college and found it very effective. If our students are able to learn multiple note taking strategies early on, I think they will be able to find one that suites them best and be successful with it plus have other strategy forms they will be able to pull from if needed.
I have been having students use Nonlinguistic repesentations through the drawing of pictures to represent vocabulary words. I have learned by reading ch. 5 that there are many more applications. Before this chapter, I did not see graphic organizers as "Non-Reps", but simply as "Graphic Organizers."
ReplyDeleteThe use of Video and microscopic pictures on the Smart Board have really enhanced my science lessons.
Summarizing and note taking are both challenging concepts for 5th graders. I intend to use the Google Docs apps to help my students. Today I was inspired by Mr. Harper to start my own blog spot for science class. You can check it out at http://cparsonphis.blogspot.com/
Chapter 5 dealing with Nonlinguistic Learning I liked because it dealt with some of the programs I use in my class. The great thing about Powerpoints, Word Processing, Spreadsheets, etc is you can make things where all learners get it. Our podcasts we've done deal with using powerpoint that the words and pictures appear on as the voice reads them. This allows people who learn well by listening to hear whats going on as well as see it or vice versa.
ReplyDeleteI really liked Chapter 5 because of the visual ideas. We just finished doing a technology survey with students and many of the students expressed a lot of interest in doing more with multi-media. It is so easy to stick to only text in Word and PowerPoint. This chapter provided many ideas for getting beyond text and introduce our students to digital storytelling.
ReplyDeleteSummarizing and notetaking are so hard to teach! In my experience, students have so much more ownership when they are creating a product for the audience. The sixth graders have done video book talks and the feedback from those have shown that students want to do a better job when they know others will see their work. I need to work harder to duplicate into other projects the ownership they feel when they create.