Two Grandmas

Once there were two grandmas who came together to enjoy their new granddaughter. What brings together these two ladies? A beautiful baby girl. She was born on August 29, 2003. When she entered this world, little did she know the love that would be hers.

One grandma, Donia Collins, traveled from Maryland. A mother of five children and retired teacher. She traveled 5,000 miles for this one moment, to hold her grandbaby.

Another grandma, lived close by, but couldn’t get enough. She was kind enough to share holding time with the other. She, a mother of four and retired DMV lady. Grandma Bonnie came to visit often.

Two grandmas joined by the common bond, Meagan Brianna Johnson.

Futuring

a. How would you “grade” or assess Fox Becomes a Better Person, and School Train?

I would assess Fox Becomes a Better Person and School train using a rubric. With so many different aspects of a media project you have to have a lot of criteria identified for assessment. When you assess you need to address content, technology, and performance. I would use something similar to the Ididamovie Rubric/scoring guide but tailored for my classroom. You can find this rubric here:www.aste.org or you can create your own rubric at this website: http://rubistar.4teachers.org.

b. What impacts could the developments portrayed in epic2015 have on your classroom, particularly with respect to things like pod casting?

The impacts are exciting and provide a lot of new opportunity to engage children. I have been contemplating using pod casts to have children give book talks. Storing the book talks and when students are choosing books, they could listen to pod casts to help them make choices. The interactive pod casting and map at the end of epic2015 still has mind reeling with what this means.

c. How might you use SabrinaJourney as a model for something you would do with your own students?

I think SabrinaJourney is a great model for having students make biographies of themselves and eventually biographies of historical figures. SabrinaJourney was written more like a poem and the story telling was beautiful.

This could also be used as a community service or career research motivator.