Week 4 Blog response

I did a great deal of brainstorming for this blog response. I was not sure exactly how advanced 4th graders could be when it comes to technology. After talking with a few people who are around 4th graders most of the time, I came to the conclusion that these children are a lot more advanced than I had thought. I have decided to use Wikis for this learning experience. I feel that Wikis are not that complicated to navigate and with enough instruction and parental guidance with researching, I feel that the students could grasp this concept of wikis pretty easily.

The use of technology will be used through out the assignment with the students as well as the teacher. I will use technology in my description to show the students what to do. I will also provided screen shots that I will print out so they can bring them home to help them work on this assignment.  
In this lesson, I will have each student research an artist. They will be given specific guidelines that will not be very complicated but must do their best to fallow. In class I will give an explanation of a wiki over a projected screen. I will show them a wiki that I have created, and then I will show them that I have already added a page for each student with their names and artists next to them. I will show them a wiki that I have created to give them an example of what theirs should look like.  The students will be expected to include the Artists name, with ONE video relating to the artist. Which they will have to look up on youtube.com with the parents supervision. As well as, up to three images, one image of the artist, and two of the artists work. They will also be required to add a short paragraph explaining a few points about the artist. This typed section should only be a few sentences but should at least include when the artist was born, as well as when they died. Also it must include something about the style of the art as well as why the students like the artwork.

Here is an example of what I am looking to see.  The students will have already viewed my example and have also been walked through a description of how to begin. Along with screen shots and print outs this should be fairly easy for the students to catch on to.

Lastly, once each wiki page is completed, the students will present their artist and digital wiki page to the class. Where we will all get the chance to watch their video and learn about each others artists.