This week, we finished our student work examples (individual artifacts!), finished our poster board, made an additional promotional video, and made t-shirts for the gallery walk next week! We’re putting the final touches on our project so that our presentation can really stand out! We are all very excited to present our work, and we’ll look spiffy in our matching team t-shirts!
Author: Daviana Smith
Daviana’s Example of Lesson Five
Daviana’s Example of Lesson Three
Daviana’s Example of Lesson Two
Daviana’s Example of Lesson One
Development Update Week 8
With two more weeks to complete our project, we’re adding the finishing touches and transforming our project from great to incredible! Our blood, sweat, tears, and paint have gone into this, and we can’t wait to show it to the world!
This week, we finished our video, we began work on our individual artifacts, we began working on a poster board for the gallery walk, and we had a group photo shoot. We’re so excited for next week!
Getting crafty!
Development Update Week 7
This week we finalized our lesson plans, uploaded the last of our About Us pages, and began filming our promotional video! We’ve been working hard and are ahead of schedule. The last pieces of our project are our video and our individual artifacts.
Development Update Week 6
During week 6, we worked a great deal on improving our Sunny Coding website. We wrote our About Me entries, we developed categories and better organisation, and modified the landing page. We met on Tuesday the 8th and worked independently Thursday the 10th. We have also spent time editing and revising our lesson plans. We look forward to finalizing our lesson plans and beginning our promotional video soon. Everything is coming up sunny at Sunny Coding!
Meet Daviana Smith: Future Educator
Daviana Smith dreams of being an elementary teacher when she grows up, and has benefited from learning from creative, passionate, and hard-working professors at the UO. She believes that all of her strongest core principles can be traced back to life lessons she learned in Kindergarten: strength of community, bravery, kindness, compassion, exploration, and diligence, as well as an undying passion for learning. She currently works as a Home Care Aide with New Horizon’s In-Home Care facility and is also a Peer Mentor. Since beginning university, she has traveled extensively, and believes that global-mindedness and intercultural experience is the key to culturally-responsive teaching.
To learn more about Daviana, please visit her project on Scratch:
Development Update Week 5
Our project began smoothly, and our team seemed to be far past where many other groups are in development. We already have a rough draft of a few different lesson plans and our website and Teamwork site have been set up.
On Thursday, disaster struck. We found out that our lesson plans are inadequate, because we need the lesson plans to be put into an additional context (to fit a school subject, such as math or art or English) and we also need to match our lessons to a set of national standards. Matching our lessons to standards was easy because we had strong ideas, but we are struggling to figure out which context to match our lesson plans to. In addition, once we choose, it is unclear how much of the work that we have already completed will need to be redone to fit into the new requirements.
Our first week as a group has been 2 steps forward and 1 step back. However, it brings to mind a quote by Robert Brault; “Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s a cha-cha.” Our first week as a team has been a cha-cha.
Edit: We have found school standards, selected a school subject, and have modified our lesson plans. We are once again on the right track, and are making massive progress on our project.