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Windsor Central Supervisory UnionTechnology Performance TasksFirst Draft: December 2007
Adapted from VT DOE Technology Performance Assessments
Committee Members
K & Library: Sarah Gasamis—Reading Elementary School1: Barbara McKeon—Woodstock Elementary School3-4: Jay Mumford—Woodstock Elementary School3: Jamie Gidney—Barnard Central School4: Jenny Hewitt—The Pomfret School5: Amy Ladabouche—Sherburne Elementary School6: Jeff Symanski—Bridgewater Village School
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Grade Cluster 1-2
Grade Cluster 1-2
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Task # 1
The Product/Performance:
A Poster
The Components:
Visual Organizer, Paint Program
The Task:
Students will create a poster that demonstrates their understanding of a concept that involves more than onestage of development (e.g. caterpillar to butterfly).
Once a topic is selected/assigned, students will use a teacher created visual organizer template to organize what they have learned about the topic.When the initial researching and organizing phases are complete, students will use a paint program to visuallyillustrate the progression from one stage of development to the next. After the students finish their illustrations,they will add text of different font types, sizes and styles (
bold face
,
italicize
, and underline
) to their poster.
The Rationale:
It is helpful for students to visualize existing and new concepts in a form that is personally meaningful.Students will use a paint program to create the first visualization of the concept they are trying to demonstrate.Students will build on the initial visualization to create further stages of development. Changing font sizes, bold facing, etc. can be effectively used in this poster to bring emphasis to different aspects of information.
IT1 - Basic Operations & Concepts
Not Assessed in this task
IT2 - Social, Ethical & Human Issues
Not Assessed in this task
IT3 - Productivity Tools
•
Entering, selecting, deleting text
•
Manipulating styles (e.g., bold face, italicize and underline).
•
Illustrating a simple concept using a paint application.
Note: It is suggested you look specifically at students’ ability to effectively use common paint tools suchas the line, oval, rectangle, paintbrush, text, selection, spray can/air brush, and eraser.
•
Entering information into a teacher created template (e.g. concept map).
Note: Students should demonstrate their ability to add text, change symbols (block to oval, etc.), changecolor of symbol backgrounds, increase/decrease font sizes, add symbols, add connecting lines to symbols, and manipulate connecting lines between symbols.
IT4 – Communication
Not Assessed in this task
IT5 - Research, Problem Solving & Decision Making
Not Assessed in this task
Grade Cluster 1-2
Glossary:Visual Organizer:
A software program that is designed to allow students to create and manipulatetext (or graphics) to form a visual representation of a concept or relationships. They are often referredto as mind-maps, cluster maps, etc.
Paint:
A computer application that allows students to sketch directly onto a background palette. Theuse of pens, brushes and erasers are typical tools in a Paint program.
Rubric
Grade ExpectationPerforms Skillwith AssistancePerformsSkillIndependentlyProductivity Tools
Entered, selected, deleted textManipulated text styles (e.g., bold face, italicize and underline).Illustrated a simple concept using a paint application.
Note: It is suggested you look specifically at each student’s ability to effectively use common paint tools suchas the line, oval, rectangle, paintbrush, text, selection, spray can/air brush, and eraser.
Enters information into a teacher created template (e.g. conceptmap).
Note: Students should demonstrate their ability to add text, change symbols (block to oval, etc.), change color of symbol backgrounds, increase/decrease font sizes, add symbols, add connecting lines to symbols, and manipulateconnecting lines between symbols.
Hardware: No AdditionalPossible Computer Software:Visual organizer:
Kidspirations (Inspiration Software: kidspiration.com), SmartIdeas(SmartTechnologies: smarttech.com/downloads), MS Word, Scholastic Keys (Tom Snyder: workswith MS Word…PC), Pages (Mac)
Paint:
KidPix (Mac: MacKiev or Encore/ PC: Encore), Pixie (tech4learning), TuxPaint (open source:
),
Hyperstudio 5 (Mac: sunburst.com)
WCSU Selected Software: Kidspiration 3 and Pixie 2
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