lois mclean, ed.d. & rick tessman, co-pis mclean media, grass valley, ca nsdl annual meeting -...

Lois McLean, Ed.D. & Rick Tessman, Co-PIs

McLean Media, Grass Valley, CA

NSDL Annual Meeting - Nov 7, 2007

OBJECT LESSONSContent Clips in the Classroom

Copyright 2007, McLean Media

All Rights Reserved

presentation overview

1. Content Clips overview

2. Evaluation Summary

3. Activity Examples

4. Other Applications

5. Questions

research project focus

Enhancing the educational impact of digital libraries

Standards-based science content, Grades 3 - 5

Feasibility of a Flash-based template system that helps teachers assemble online presentations and activities with multimedia clips from digital libraries

Learning Activity Templates for Digital Libraries

Targeted Research NSF DUE-0435464

research project goals

broader long-term goals

Public service and site for teachers and students

Services and applications for NSDL community

Applications for other audiences and subject areas

Build a digital collection of life science clips (3-5)

Develop a prototype template system

Evaluate with elementary teachers and children

Explore ways to apply the results to the NSDL

How can we design a dynamic online system to help teachers use clips from distributed digital collections in classroom activities and presentations?

How can we design a dynamic online system to help teachers use clips from distributed digital collections in classroom activities and presentations?

research challengeresearch challenge

• As granularity increases, so does reusability.

• As granularity decreases, context increases.

ActivityAsset(jpg, aiff, mov)

UnitLesson Curriculum

Digital Learning Objects Granularity Continuum

Reusability

Context

More granular

Less granular

learning objects granularity

Adapted from Wagner, E. (2002)

Steps to Creating a Content Strategy for Your Organization. eLearning Developers’ Journal. eLearning Guild. Oct 29, 2002. download PDF version (1/31/05) (Learnativity Content Model)

http://www.elearningguild.com/pdf/2/102902MGT-H.pdf

teaching with objects is not new

• from …• Children's pictures to amuse and instruct, 1825

• http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/etexts/darton/images/pe1449-c536_00001.shtml

assign tab - album

Assigning items to Class Clip Zone


assign tab - large image



elements of the Content Clips system

Clip Collection - 400+ life science “published” clips

Content Kit for teachers - to build and assign activities

Flash Templates (shells) - to combine clipswith backgrounds to create activities

Presenters - to launch individual clips such as images

Tools - to manipulate or modify clips within activities

Class Clip Zone - presentation view for classroom use

Student Accounts - separate class loginfor evaluation sites

home page (www.contentclips.com)

SoniaSonia4th-gradeteacher

4th-gradeteacher

assign tab - clip info - image clip

Searchingfor clipsto assign

Searchingfor clipsto assign

Clip Zone

Sonia’s loginredirects her to the Content Kit

Sonia’s loginredirects her to the Content Kit

create tab

CreatingactivitiesCreatingactivities

choose a background

match activity



add your own clip link

Fall 2007 evaluation study

19 Teachers - California (3 sites) and Hawaii (1 site)

400+ Students Grades 3-6 - classroom and lab Training - in-person workshops, phone,

print guide Assignment - create 2 activities and try

with students Online Survey - 27 questions on

surveymonkey.com Observation - 6 classes in Grass Valley and

Yuba City

1. Fits standards and curriculum2. Grade-level appropriate3. Easy to use and find4. Kid-friendly5. Functions properly6. User or teacher-friendly

what do teachers want in an online resource?

Rank criteria from 1 to 6 according to their importance when choosing a web resource. Most important = 1Least important=6

Rank criteria from 1 to 6 according to their importance when choosing a web resource. Most important = 1Least important=6

how often do teachers use web resources?

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

Never Rarely Monthly Weekly Daily

Frequency

how do they use web resources?

0 20 40 60 80 100

Projector

ElectronicWhiteboard

Whole Class

SmallGroups

Independent

How used

published versus personal clip use

• 1/3 used no personal clip links• 1/3 used only personal clip links• 1/3 used from 10 - 40% personal clip

links(self-reported estimate, 18 responses)

Photosynthesis Cycle

No bones about it

Volcanoes

Camouflage

Mtn Food Chain

Prairie Food Chain

Energy Pyramid

Habitat features

Tree Damage

Water Cycle set

challenges to teacher use

Interface design issues in Content Kit for Teachers

Features wanted - saving text labels and targets

Training needed for system and for science teaching

Lack of time to find clips for specific content

Technical issues - Safari versions and pop-up blocker

what teachers liked

Clear and compelling visuals (9) Easy-to-use and organize (8) Engaging and motivating for students (3) Alternate way for students to show learning

(3) Helps teachers create differentiated

instruction (3) Flexible, open-ended (3) Not the textbook (2) Ability to access outside the computer lab

(2)

what teachers said

• Previously when I was preparing my students for learning about different species and different habitats, I did not have such clear and memorable visuals for them to connect to. This was so much more powerful.

• Once a teacher learns how to compose this, it opens up endless possibilities and more importantly students are excited and learn from this interaction.

Telling STEM Stories through Content Clips

NSF Research on Gender in Science and Engineering grant

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