Journalistic Writing
Project Name
Journalistic Writing
Description of Learning Goals
Access is useful in teaching students to organize their thoughts before writing. This is a program where one definitely needs to have the finished goal in mind before one begins.
The Standards met for this project are:· 5—Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.· 6—Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and create, critique, and discuss print and nonprint texts.· 8—Students use a variety of technological and information resources (libraries, databases, computer networks, video) to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge.
Rationale for Technology
Tools such as Access are great for organizing a tremendous amount of data into one format that can be easily retrieved. Students would enjoy being able to organize their music by author, song, recording label, genre. This technology really makes a student organize their thoughts before beginning implementation. Otherwise, halfway through the process, they will discover that there are no relationships to be made with the data.
Description of Lesson Implementation
The “Create a Newspaper” does not lend itself well to Access from a student standpoint. If I were going to teach this, I would have everyone use the same database, such as my classroom books. I would use an overhead for instruction. We would:
decide what relationships we want to have documented. We could organize by author or genre, or difficulty level
walk through the procedures step by step with everyone generating the same forms.
generate reports, forms and tables and talk about whether data generated is useful to us. I think I would throw in one “red herring” so they would see how some information is useless
This program is over the heads of most Middle Schoolers so I think the classroom would have to be carefully managed for frustration.
Assessment
Access is a great program for someone that has a lot of data that needs to be organized and stored. It is really more a teacher than student driven program. I would use it to organize lesson plans by topic, goals, or website.
Other Places to Use this Solution
This program can be used at home or in the office as well as school. Recording all your music by genre or artist; recipes by type, low cal, or region; It is used in offices everywhere to store data business for inventory, addresses, etc.
What I Learned and What I Would Improve on Next Time
I learned that this is a complicated program that I would need to work with a lot before I felt comfortable teaching it in a classroom. I need to think through what types of information I want synthesized before I begin the program and be aware that even having thought through it, it still might not work. I think this works best with very simple projects. Unless this were high school, I would only use this program for teacher support. I think it is beyond the grasp of elementary and most middle schoolers.
References/Resources Used
Microsoft Access
Georgia QCCs
Professional Help Provided by Ms. Anne Davis
Journalistic Writing
Description of Learning Goals
Access is useful in teaching students to organize their thoughts before writing. This is a program where one definitely needs to have the finished goal in mind before one begins.
The Standards met for this project are:· 5—Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.· 6—Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and create, critique, and discuss print and nonprint texts.· 8—Students use a variety of technological and information resources (libraries, databases, computer networks, video) to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge.
Rationale for Technology
Tools such as Access are great for organizing a tremendous amount of data into one format that can be easily retrieved. Students would enjoy being able to organize their music by author, song, recording label, genre. This technology really makes a student organize their thoughts before beginning implementation. Otherwise, halfway through the process, they will discover that there are no relationships to be made with the data.
Description of Lesson Implementation
The “Create a Newspaper” does not lend itself well to Access from a student standpoint. If I were going to teach this, I would have everyone use the same database, such as my classroom books. I would use an overhead for instruction. We would:
decide what relationships we want to have documented. We could organize by author or genre, or difficulty level
walk through the procedures step by step with everyone generating the same forms.
generate reports, forms and tables and talk about whether data generated is useful to us. I think I would throw in one “red herring” so they would see how some information is useless
This program is over the heads of most Middle Schoolers so I think the classroom would have to be carefully managed for frustration.
Assessment
Access is a great program for someone that has a lot of data that needs to be organized and stored. It is really more a teacher than student driven program. I would use it to organize lesson plans by topic, goals, or website.
Other Places to Use this Solution
This program can be used at home or in the office as well as school. Recording all your music by genre or artist; recipes by type, low cal, or region; It is used in offices everywhere to store data business for inventory, addresses, etc.
What I Learned and What I Would Improve on Next Time
I learned that this is a complicated program that I would need to work with a lot before I felt comfortable teaching it in a classroom. I need to think through what types of information I want synthesized before I begin the program and be aware that even having thought through it, it still might not work. I think this works best with very simple projects. Unless this were high school, I would only use this program for teacher support. I think it is beyond the grasp of elementary and most middle schoolers.
References/Resources Used
Microsoft Access
Georgia QCCs
Professional Help Provided by Ms. Anne Davis
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