Teacher Driven Curriculum: Creating Your Own Multimedia Lessons in the Digital Age

JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR TALENTED YOUTH
SDB/CTY Summer Conference 2003
Saturday July 12, 2003

Mr. Richard Geib, Foothill Technology High School

(NOTE: This can be found online at http://www.foothilltech.org/rgeib/jhu-cty-2003-presentation.htm)

AGENDA:

1.  Media Creator

• The past, textbooks, and the present.
• New resources

2.  Class webpage

• Basic class information, etc

3.  Examples of Student Work:

        Poetry Unit:

• Special Moment
• Special Person
• Theme for English 9

4.  Online Rubrics

• Resume Project
• Writing Rubric General; "Brave New World" example
• 9th grade class project multimedia presentation rubric
• Visual Communication image rubric

5.  Inspiration and Concept Mapping

• Inspiration Page
• The Puritans
• Scope and Sequence English 9
• Fundamentalism vs. Nationalism in the Arab World
• The Lessons of Atticus Finch
• England Modernizes in the 17th Century
• Renaissance vs. Medieval Worldview
• Capulets vs. Montagues
• Walt Whitman: The American Bard Appears
• "Brave New World" Control Pattern
• Thomas Jefferson vs. Alexander Hamilton
• The Debate Over the Meaning of 1776
• Ezra Pound, Part I and II
• The Ambiguities and Complexities of Jefferson
• The Great Awakening
• "1984" Control Pattern

6.  Individual Online Assignments

• The Declaration of Independence, Applied
• The Stoic Intellectual Tradition Gets a Facelift
• The Student as Budding Intellectual and Journalist: 
  "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" Poetry Review
• Examining the Evidence: The English Teacher Makes History
• In Memoriam: A Student Eulogy
• NY Department of Social Psychiatry: 
  Bartleby Medically Evaluated and Diagnosed
• Theater of Power: Manila Bay at Dawn, May 1898
• The Jungle in the Courtroom: The Fight for Social Justice!

7.  Webquest/Online Projects

• Webquest Page by Prof. Bernie Dodge
• Project based; deeper learning.
• Task and essential questions.
• Give Me a Job; My First Car; Personal Budget
• Growing Up in the Hungry '30s
• "Instructions for Life" Booklet
• Islam: The Divided Realm at the End of the 20th Century
• Thomas Jefferson: A Re-Evaluation
• This Hallowed Ground: The Tide Turns at Gettysburg
• Abraham Lincoln: Rhetor Extraordinaire
• Brave New World?  Or Slouching Towards Gomorrah?
• "The New Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds"
• The Bards Appear: Whitman to Ventura
• Shakespeare in the Quad
• Ars Poetica

8.  Video, the future

• Mustapha Mond's Department of Propaganda
• "We Were There": The Constitutional Convention in Modern Garb

9.  Questions and Answers!