Ezhilarasu Loganathan

EDUC - 6731C – 3 Assessment Student Learning

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This photo album is to introduce the unit “Hands on Animation” where you will be learning about how you can make a career by developing skills in animation. Moreover, you will get to make movies of your own stories by using Paint and PowerPoint. Finally, you will learn about user interface and get to make the game show “Who wants to be a millionaire?” which is an example for user interface.

Hands on Animation

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Technology Applications

126.32 – (c).1 - Creativity and innovation

You will be expected to: (A) investigate and explore various career opportunities within the

computer science field and report findings through various media (where you will research on what you want to become in

future) (B) create and publish interactive stories, games, and animations

(where you are making your own movies) (C) create and publish interactive animations

(where you are making attractive presentations) (G) design creative and effective user interfaces

(where you are making interactive program)

Learning goals and Assessment methods

It is a Paper and Pencil assessment for writing short answers to the following questions

Diagnostic assessment prior to learning job opportunities

What extra resources do you have to complete your homework due to the introduction of Computers?

Write 2 ways in which Computers have made an impact on day to day operations in the following: Hospital, Bursar’s office in a School, and in one of your parent’s office/business.

Explain how Computers contributed to an advertisement that you have seen recently on TV.

You draw a picture of a boy or a girl in small size on the first paper in a sticky note pad and the same picture needs to be drawn in 10 different sizes, increasing gradually on every paper. Finally you need to flip the papers to see that the boy or the girl is growing.

Diagnostic assessment prior to making your own movies

Both the above assessments would

need to be assessed both by the

students themselves and by their peers with the help of a given rubric

Ongoing classroom assessments

You would need to make a movie for humpty-dumpty that the humpty-dumpty claims on a wall through a ladder, then walks on the wall, then falls down from the edge.

You would also need to make a movie for a clash between a car and an animal

At the start of every learning goal, you will be writing what you already know about it and what you want to learn about it. The last column will be left to do at the end of every learning goal to write what you have learnt through the learning goal.

On going self assessment 1

At the end of every lesson, you will writing what you have learnt by the end of that lesson and how you have used them in the task that you got to do.

On going self assessment 2

Who wants to be a Millionaire? – Students make this interactive game show with the help of the features such as objects, animation, hyperlink and the other tools of MS PowerPoint. They make this show for at least 15 questions with price money for every question and the help lines such as 50-50, phone a friend, and audience vote.

Performance tasks

Rubric for the performance task

True True/False Item: Graphical User Interface is user friendly and it does not require us to remember commands.

False True/False Item: Character User Interface is slow to run since it occupies a lot of memory.

Short answer or fill-in-the-blank: GUI stands for ____________________________________________

Sample questions for Paper and Pencil Assessments

Multiple choice: Which of the following stands for CUI?

a) Creative User Interfaceb) Character User Interfacec) Current User Interfaced) None of the above

Essay item:Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of GUI and CUI to suggest a suitable interface for your computer lessons.

Sample questions for Paper and Pencil Assessments

Are you ready to start the unit?