Use a digital tool of your choice to create two types of educational materials: student-facing, and adult stakeholder-facing (ie. your administrator, other teachers, parents, etc.) Write a commentary to accompany your artifacts.
Instructions:
Select a topic from any of the course modules.
Decide on the type of artifacts that you’d like to create and choose the digital tools that you will use to create them.
Create the artifacts.
Write a 2-3 page commentary.
Artifacts:
The purpose of the artifacts is to be educational or informational. You will create two different artifacts about the same topic for different audiences. The artifacts should be inclusive and accessible and should consider design principles from the Triple E framework. You should incorporate at least one computational concept or approach into the artifacts.
Example topics:
A video for students about using decomposition in everyday tasks and a tip sheet for colleagues on how to incorporate computational thinking concepts into daily classroom routines.
A poster for students about expectations for digital citizenship and a guide for parents about how to reinforce digital citizenship at home.
A lesson plan marked up with inclusive practices and accessibility considerations for a Deaf student and an instructional screencast for her other teachers about how to add captions to videos and presentations.
Examples of possible artifact types are:
A slide deck for mini-lessons or for presenting at a staff meeting (Google Slides, PowerPoint)
A screencast, (Screencast-o-matic, Screencastify)
A self-paced module, (Nearpod, Peardeck)
A poster or handout, (Google Slides, Canva)
An infographic, (Canva)
A video or animation (Flipgrid, Powtoon, Scratch)
A study guide or game (Quizziz, Kahoot, Quizlet)
Commentary:
The purpose of the commentary is to explicitly connect your artifacts to the concepts that you have learned throughout this course. The commentary should be 2-3 pages or a 4-6 minute recording. It should include the following:
A summary of your topic and why it is important for students, how the two artifacts are related
A description of the tool that you used to create the artifact and why you chose it
A description of each artifact including the audience/stakeholder, the tool that you used to create it, and an explanation of when and how you would use the artifact
Description of how you integrated one or more computational thinking concepts and approaches into the artifacts
Explanation of how the artifacts are inclusive and accessible, including connections to the UDL Framework
Explanation of the instructional design of the artifact, including connections to the Triple E Framework or other considerations from the course materials.
Three reliable web resources related to the topic, and an explanation of how you know they are reliable.
