Padlet lesson and reflection

I think it would be fun to use Padlet as a way to teach my weather unit. I could have each student create a padlet on a weather topic of their choice but let only one person do each topic. Some of the topics would be Pressure, Temperature,  Layers of the atmosphere, Fronts, Global winds etc... Then we could post the padlets to the class website and review each other's work. I will design a rubric that sets outcomes and expectations for the things that need to be covered for each aspect of the assignment. Students will use technology to create a multimodal representation of a weather topic of their choice.

The readings from week 1 align with the activities that we did this week because it gave me a tool that I could use to have my students create multimedia online for an assignment to learn about it as well as an assessment. The principals that I feel applied when I created my padlet was that a lot of the things I found myself adding to the padlet were media rich digital resources.  The principles I intentionally used was that I wanted to use multi media as an assessment because I usually only used it as a teaching strategy and students usually don't have an opportunity to demonstrate what they've learned the same way we're learning about it. This is one way that my thinking has changed. It seems like such  a simple concept to allow students to use multimedia as a way of showing mastery for an outcome but I had never really thought about it before. Sure I have done projects but I didn't really think of it as an assessment.  I feel like the struggle now is going to be to design projects that assess using multimedia. The information that stood out in my mind is the lack of knowledge that a lot of students have about copyright I had some conversations with a few students to see if they've learned about it in any of their classes.  I do not think that it is part of any curriculum in any of our classes. I enjoyed learning about multimedia last week more than I enjoyed about copyright this week.  Copyright seems dull and boring to me, but I did like the guys analogy in the video comparing copyright to speeding. I used that when my class was in the computer lab the other day and we were talking about what plagiarism is.