Stories, Timelines and Things, Oh, My! Survey Responses
A survey was sent to participants using a Form created in Google Drive. Five of the six participants responded to the survey.
A survey was sent to participants using a Form created in Google Drive. Five of the six participants responded to the survey.
Members of the L J Price Instructional Media Committee participated in the Stories, Timelines, and Things, Oh My! Workshop in the Price Media Center.
Evaluation Narrative
During the Stories, Timelines, and Things Oh My! Workshop, the participants were observed and informally assessed after the facilitator modeled each tool. It was observed that all of the participants could create two or more pages, add text and narrate a story using the StoryKit app on the iPad. All but one person were able to complete a simple Timeline using Timetoast. Five of the six attendees, use technology within their classrooms with their students on a weekly basis. The one teacher that struggled to complete the timeline is the art teacher who confesses she does not use or like to use technology much. The technology tool ThingLink was the tool that required additional support to the attendees. They used the hand out provided and in one case wrote down the name of the video from YouTube that I showed the group while introducing ThingLink. This tool, ThingLink requires planning and locating information to link to the image. Due to the attendees not having any advance notice of the requirement of starting with an image for this tool, it supports the slight difficulty some had with completing an image within the timeframe of the workshop.
An evaluation survey was created using a Google Drive Form. The form/survey was sent to all participants in the workshop for feedback on the session. Five of the six attendees completed the survey form and their responses are listed in the table above. The results indicated that four out of the five rated StoryKit with a 1 or 2 indicating they would be likely to use StoryKit in their classroom. All of the participants rated Timetoast with a 1 or 2 also indicating they would use Timetoast with their students. ThingLink scored the highest ratings with only one of the five responses indicating a score of 2. It is interesting that everyone liked ThingLink the most, but that is the tool that gave some troubles in creating. The attendees responded that they would enjoy learning more about any tool that could be used with their students and one thought the tools were informative, practical and easy to use.
The next time a workshop is planned I believe that only two tools should be introduced at most to allow more time on each tool, and attendees should be provided with directions to have certain items prepared or ready for use. The ThingLink tool would have been more successful if teachers had already downloaded an image and had a website or two they could link with their image. This workshop was a success because of the small numbers of participants, the ability for all questions to be asked and answered within the workshop time, and the interest of the participants in learning more information and technology tools.
Before leaving the session, the art teacher requested that we meet to plan for her classes to use StoryKit to create a story book which will use the students' own artwork for the graphics after the CRCT. One of the seventh grade teachers stated that he wanted to learn more about this for his students to create stories chronicling the adventures of a red blood cell through the heart.
During the Stories, Timelines, and Things Oh My! Workshop, the participants were observed and informally assessed after the facilitator modeled each tool. It was observed that all of the participants could create two or more pages, add text and narrate a story using the StoryKit app on the iPad. All but one person were able to complete a simple Timeline using Timetoast. Five of the six attendees, use technology within their classrooms with their students on a weekly basis. The one teacher that struggled to complete the timeline is the art teacher who confesses she does not use or like to use technology much. The technology tool ThingLink was the tool that required additional support to the attendees. They used the hand out provided and in one case wrote down the name of the video from YouTube that I showed the group while introducing ThingLink. This tool, ThingLink requires planning and locating information to link to the image. Due to the attendees not having any advance notice of the requirement of starting with an image for this tool, it supports the slight difficulty some had with completing an image within the timeframe of the workshop.
An evaluation survey was created using a Google Drive Form. The form/survey was sent to all participants in the workshop for feedback on the session. Five of the six attendees completed the survey form and their responses are listed in the table above. The results indicated that four out of the five rated StoryKit with a 1 or 2 indicating they would be likely to use StoryKit in their classroom. All of the participants rated Timetoast with a 1 or 2 also indicating they would use Timetoast with their students. ThingLink scored the highest ratings with only one of the five responses indicating a score of 2. It is interesting that everyone liked ThingLink the most, but that is the tool that gave some troubles in creating. The attendees responded that they would enjoy learning more about any tool that could be used with their students and one thought the tools were informative, practical and easy to use.
The next time a workshop is planned I believe that only two tools should be introduced at most to allow more time on each tool, and attendees should be provided with directions to have certain items prepared or ready for use. The ThingLink tool would have been more successful if teachers had already downloaded an image and had a website or two they could link with their image. This workshop was a success because of the small numbers of participants, the ability for all questions to be asked and answered within the workshop time, and the interest of the participants in learning more information and technology tools.
Before leaving the session, the art teacher requested that we meet to plan for her classes to use StoryKit to create a story book which will use the students' own artwork for the graphics after the CRCT. One of the seventh grade teachers stated that he wanted to learn more about this for his students to create stories chronicling the adventures of a red blood cell through the heart.