Beowulf Project

CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

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Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project

Beowulf Project

Jack WalshAnderson High School


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My name is Jack Walsh and I teach 12th grade English at Anderson Union High School.

My web site is http://ctap295.ctaponline.org/~jwalsh/

My e-mail is [email protected]

This 12th Grade English lesson (standard 2.5) on World Culture allows students creation of power point slides related to Beowulf or Hamlet.

http://ctap295.ctaponline.org/~jwalsh/









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Expectations

•Use of Dreamweaver for designing a web site

•To work with gifted professionals

•Create a lesson I could use in the classroom

•Practice Excel & Power Point


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Outcomes

I learned the following:

•Web page creation in Netscape Composer

•How to FTP until I got all tingly inside

•Downloading and Uploading techniques

•Use of the Master in Power Point.


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Successes•Students Very Enthusiastic

•Students Very Productive and Creative

•I was able to provide instruction and feed-•back as students built their projects


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Successes Continued•Meets Language-Arts Standards.

•Meets more than one standard.

•Use project for next WASC

•Other 12th Grade teacher able to use project


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Shortcomings•Fifty-three minute period not long enough to work

•Lack of student knowledge of Power Point

•Students research skills limited

•Time for students to work on projects

•Lab not always available


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Student Data

Students improved after I reworked the web site to includecrucial information about vocabulary. Some students did notimprove because they might possess low self-esteem.

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After adding “think sheets” link, scores improved.


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Students First Test Second Test Third Test Fourth Test

J im 100 32 11 100

Jennifer 10 22 33 98

Fred 90 88 55 88

Amy 35 77 66 99

Alisha 66 66 77 78

Jeremy 99 88 33 99

Brad 88 98 44 88

George 77 78 45 99

Greenie 99 67 46 66

Spam 88 78 48 55

Spanky 66 76 36 99

John 88 99 47 66

Ferris 99 44 66 90


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Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project Revisions

After reviewing dataI realized that the studentsdid not do as well as I thoughtthey would. I decided to revise the rubric and thathelped a lot, but studentsdid not achieve at masterylevel as I had expected.

I reworked the rubric and added some vocabulary definitions.Then I rewrote the pre and post tests.

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SummaryThis project helped me see how students might processinformation as they gather it from the web. We are becoming information gatherers and web projects are a good start opening the Internet to our students. I would further liketo explore the use of streaming video on a web site, placingmin-lessons for students who are sick or otherwise unableto attend the lesson in class that day.


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Student Presentation

Enjoy two screen grabs from student-made Beowulf video.


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Jack Walsh, Anderson Union High School Beowulf Project Student Work

Beowulf Meets Star Wars


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Student Work


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ThankYou

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Beowulf Project