Beowulf

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Beowulf Project
Jack Walsh Anderson 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 jwalsh_at_anderson.k12.ca.us This 12th
Grade English lesson (standard 2.5) on World
Culture allows students creation of power point
slides related to Beowulf or Hamlet.
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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
Grades
Students
Students improved after I reworked the web site
to include crucial information about vocabulary.
Some students did not improve because they might
possess low self-esteem.
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After adding think sheets link, scores
improved.
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Improvement by Post Test
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Revisions
After reviewing data I realized that the
students did not do as well as I thought they
would. I decided to revise the rubric and
that helped a lot, but students did not achieve
at mastery level 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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Summary
This project helped me see how students might
process information 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 like to
explore the use of streaming video on a web site,
placing min-lessons for students who are sick or
otherwise unable to 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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Student Work
Beowulf Meets Star Wars
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Student Work
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Thank You