Tortoise and the hare Podcast

This pod cast is based on the Aesop's Fable of the Tortoise and the Hare
 
http://minicasts.podomatic.com/play/2475722/4476618

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Slide Show (using FLICKR)

The slide show I included in my slide show is basically the sites of El Paso and how our city has grown from the beginning of Texas History. The slides represent all parts of El Paso and how many of my students have no connection to these places. i would like for them to also tell me about their origin or places they are connected too.

7th Grade Texas History: Texas Revolution & Alamo

Jose Luis Giron

Learning Goals/Objectives

·       Students will understand the events leading up to the Texas Revolution and the importance of the Alamo leading up to the Independence of Texas from Mexico.

·       Students will be able to compare the Revolution of Texas to current events using the internet to have a firsthand experience.

·       Students will be able to understand the impact of war, internet, and social issues have an impact on the world using present day developments.

Student interest ( Connection to Lesson and Prior knowledge)

This lesson will help students understand how history repeats itself and the issues of the past remain the same as time passes by. As in life, there are pivotal moments that change everything and the Alamo is such event in Texas History. I plan to make a comparison of the Texas Revolution and the major issues that affected minority groups living in Texas to that of issues the United States and Lydia has addressed in present time. As a teacher working a majority made up of  a minority group with issues that have been addressed through government

Technology  and Resources

Students : Internet( research), Blogger( Posting personal responses to  assignments) ,Wiki( Creating a living document Group work), Google Docs ( creating a web site ), and PowerPoint

Teacher: Google Docs( Rubrics Page and assessment), Class Website ( Daily assignments Posted)

Activities

• Discussion Using the internet.

Students will be introduced to  current event related to a Revolution based on a dictatorship that has failed to meet the demand of its minority. This will help students understand how dictatorship  is the same in 2011 to that of Santa Anna's Regime. The conflict of Libya will allow students to see firsthand the atrocities dictatorships create to keep control of a country.  Students will connect the severity of

Conflict In Libya : NPR

http://www.npr.org/series/134713506/conflict-in-libya

·       Creating a Class Discussion Thread Wiki in groups of four.

Students will create a Wiki page and discuss the current topics that affect their lives today  and post websites that outline the topics that they want to address on their Group  Wiki page . This will help students find websites that can help them define current issues and create a living document that researches solutions to the problems many of these students face every day. as a teacher it will let me see what is affecting my students or what interests them. Using website below will help students see the similarities in issues minorities had to those of today.

The Hispanic Experience - Tejanos in the Texas Revolution

http://www.houstonculture.org/hispanic/alamo.html

SLAVERY | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA...

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/yps01

·       Creating a Power Point to outline the major events, individuals and important document and issues of Texas Revolution with a slide or two synopsis of the Lydia's Revolution. Website below will help students research topics.

Causes of the Texas Revolution

http://www.austincc.edu/lpatrick/his1693/causes.html

As a class we will create a website and post the an outline of the important events, individuals and issues created before, during and after the Texas Revolution. The website will have different pages to include a picture gallery, a video web link to a PBS special on the impact of the The U.S.-Mexican War . War (1846-1848) . Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | PBS and a discussion board of the impact the Alamo had on the Texas Revolution and US History .

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TexasHistory.com > Home

http://www.texashistory.com/

The U.S.-Mexican War . War (1846-1848) . Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/war/wars_end_guadalupe.html

Assessment

The students learning will be addressed in through an assessment created by Google Docs and a rubrics designed to outline the key elements in their Power Point Presentation, participation during daily communication through Blogger,  Wiki and Class Web site created  with Google Docs.

TEKS

3.) History. The student understands how individuals, events, and issues related to the Texas Revolution shaped the history of Texas. The student is expected to:

  B.) explain the roles played by significant individuals during the Texas Revolution, including George Childress, Lorenzo de Zavala, James Fannin,  Sam Houston, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna , Juan Seguin and William B. Travis.

  C.) explain the issues surrounding significant events of the Texas Revolution, including the Battle of Gonzalez, the siege of the Alamo, the Constitutional Convention 1836, Fannin's surrender at Goliad, and the Battle at San Jacinto.

4.) History: The student understands how individuals, events, and issues related to the Texas Revolution shaped the history of Texas.

A.) identify the individuals, events and issues during the administration of Republic of Texas. President Houston, Lamar and Jones. Including Texas Navy, the Texas Rangers, Edwin W. Moore, Jack Coffee Hays, the Cordova Rebellion, the Council House Fight, The Santa Fe Expedition, public debt, and the roles of racial and ethnic groups.

Conflict In Libya : NPR

Podcast in my 7th grade Classes math/ texas history & ART

In Art Class I would use a podcast as a form of hearing different views or giving direction to a certain project that they can replay without the teacher helping them over and over. I would like to see how they could do a project without guidance given at all steps of the lesson making them listen to the directions given.

A podcast in my 7th grade class would help many of my students understand different view points from different places in the world. IN my art classes the podcast that I choose  may help my students understand how certain artist are still talked about even though they are no longer with us. A podcast that  that I heard compared the different styles of Picasso to Matisse and how the influence of their works have influenced many designs in today time period.

IN my History class, I would use it as a political speech and a chance to see great speeches given through our history. My students would be able to see how public speaking is a key part of winning a presidential race. If a candidate is not able to portray a well rounded spoken person can affect their political career.

My students creating a podcast can give them a voice in which they can voice their opinions and hear themselves opinionate in certain ways that may never be able because they are not of strong character. I n history class I would like to see my students create a  political speech when we cover certain eras in the different political years.

In my math class a podcast can help students follow a lesson  clearly and in one to one basis in which students get a different type of teaching in which can help students follow step by step podcast thta can help them do certain math problems.

POdcast in the Classroom

AS the demands grow to reach all our students in every level to decrease the educational gap in and out of the classroom Podcast are another useful tool used to reach all your students. I can agree with the article in which podcast are used in several settings to teach an audience in tourist attractions, entertainment, library research and other creative ways to reach the audience. In education I always thought listening to podcast were for audio deficit students who needed extra help in understanding but this project helped me understand that as a teacher podcast can help give students or substitutes  guided directions to do assignments correctly  in which they can repeat directions as needed, can give a student's a sense of personal teaching that can block all unwanted noise in the classroom an let he or she focus on the task at hand, and can help with team teaching in delivering a task that can be played in several classes at the same time without the other teacher being there. The article also outlined several great benefits that included the time shifting  ability which I found helpful myself. Overall I believe Podcast can give students and teachers a better learning environment.