Jenna Gabel
Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
"Love - Sign" by Cindy Andrie is liscensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Jenna Gabel's Educational Technology Showcase
Welcome to my showcase page! Here you will find many samples of work from my masters program in educational technology at Michigan State University. Through the projects that I have selected, I hope that you will see the many ways in which I use technology to enhance the education of my students. I can effectively use technology to address challenges in education, increase the effectiveness of professional development, uncover student understandings and misconceptions, create online learning environments, and much more. As you look around, feel free to click on the pictures to view each work sample individually, and click on the title of each project in order to view the assignment description from the course.
Wicked Problem
The purpose of this page is to introduce administrators to a serious communication problem that one of my students, who only uses American Sign Language to communicate, is experiencing. I needed to convince administrators that a feasible way to solve this problem would be to integrate Sorenson Communications into our deaf and hard of hearing program at school. I also aimed to inform administrators about what a video relay service is, the benefits of using it with our students, and what would be involved in setting up such a system in our school district.
Using Technology to Address Challenges in Education
Dream It
Technology has the potential to transform what I am doing in my classroom when it is integrated with my classroom pedagogy and content. Within the contents of my dream it project, I have discussed the ways that technology is going to help me solve a key issue having to do with vocabulary learning in my classroom. By exploring this website, you will get an idea of the transformation that will occur in my classroom, and how I have integrated the educational technology based research into my teaching plan. You will also understand how I will know whether my plan is successful, and how I will address many other key issues having to do with technology and education within my classroom.
Utilizing Technology for Professional Development
Exploring Key Topics in Tech and Ed
This website was created to inform educators about the importance of developing information literacy and technology skills in schools. What is information literacy? Check out our website to find out not only this, but also what types of assistive technology tools can be used to teach information literacy, how it has been implemented in classrooms already, research-based studies pertaining to information literacy and technology, resources for educators, and a description of why it is imperative for our students to learn these skills.
3x3x3 Why Don't Students Like School
These videos present chapter 4 and 9 in Daniel T. Willingham’s book titled Why don’t Student’s Like School in an engaging manner. As a summary of these chapters, we created “low tech” videos. These videos explain the three major points from the chapters and three educational applications of each chapter in a total of three minutes time. This is where the name 3 x 3 x 3 comes in.
Uncovering Student Understandings and Misconceptions
Understanding Understanding: Video Research Project
We know that our students come to the classroom with many misconceptions about the world around them which relate to the subjects that we are teaching. In this project, we asked informative interview questions that would start to uncover our interviewee’s understanding of a particular topic. We chose to find out what our participants knew about the color of the ocean, and why it was the color that we see.
Online Course Module
This online course module can be used in my current classroom as a blended learning experience. It follows a flipped classroom model, where students are asked to complete a task before class. This task will give them some background information on the subject that we will be covering during that day's class. Then, in school, students will participate in an interactive activity pertaining to each day's topic. This course teaches students the parts of the ear, how hearing works, and information about their own hearing loss, It also teaches students about their needs as a deaf or hard of hearing student, and demonstrates how students can be a strong advocate for themselves within the classroom. As a cumulative project at the end of the course, students are asked to create a product to explain to others their hearing loss and their needs as a deaf or hard of hearing individual.
Web Based Inquiry
I have created this website as a stepping stone for students to begin learning about web based research and to start the process of learning through inquiry. My deaf and hard of hearing students will be learning to identify unknown vocabulary words, research those words using the web, and create a visual product of their final understanding of the word using Wordle, Popplet, and Photovisi. Then students will either be typing, using Voki, or videotaping themselves explaining their visual representation of their vocabulary word to others. There will also be a collaborative component of this project where students in different grade levels are all constructing knowledge of a particular vocabulary word together through the use of our classroom vocabulary website.
Creating Online Learning Environments
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Personal Learning Portfolio
If you enjoyed visiting my showcase, and would like to see a more comprehensive collection of the work that I have created throughout my time in Michigan State University's educational technology master's program, you may visit my personal learning portfolio. The wide variety of artifacts on this website portray the ways in which I am able to use technolgy to enhance my teaching craft.
