Pre-School Curriculums: E-Learning Support!

Advocacy in North Lafayette, La.        As 2024 begins I find myself going on 4 years outside the classroom. Its still very important for me to advocate for students. Currently in my position as a preschool curriculum developer my advocacy for students looks different. Its important for me to spread my cause by creating research opportunities and building my knowledge regarding curriculum writing and early literacy skills. Specifically, it is important for preschool students that attend in-home child care to to have access to early literacy curriculums and lessons that will build their letter recognition skills. Data is showing that students entering Kindergarten from in-home child care are far more behind than students from Head Start Programs, Day Care Facilities and Pre-Schools with educational curriculums.      Advocacy is important because it acts as a representative for under represented groups in spaces where they are not prevalent. such as students in low economic status or pre

Pre-K III Mini Garden Activity - Worked Example Presentation To View:  Click the Link Above Click Duration - Bottom Left Corner Click Play A Worked Example     This week for my LSU course assignment, I created a worked example. Following Clark and Mayer's definition, "a worked example is a step-by-step demonstration of how to complete a task" (Clark, Mayer 2016). The Pre-K III Mini Garden Activity is an example of a worked example presentation I completed using many multimedia principles such as Personalization principle and Coherence principle. Its a step by step guide on how to plant a seed with a collaborative garden activity for preschool students. The presentation features demonstrations of how to clean and prepare a seed, find a location, and plant the seeds. As well as examples of ways to enhance student understanding. This presentation is accessible to anyone with the link and is intended for in-home preschool educators and homeschooling parents.    Design Challen

  Digital Story - Letter Magic Career Day! (Letters A - I) To View:  Click the Link Above Click Duration - Bottom Left Corner Click Play Personalization Principle       Applying the Personalization principle to digital storytelling was the assignment for my ELRC Multimedia Design Course at LSU. I was excited to use the principles I learned thus far where I could. I created a three minute digital story presentation about young pre-school students in different career fields. Each career correlates with a letter of the alphabet. For example, A is for Astronaut, B is for Ballerina and so on.  Intended Audience      This digital story presentation is intended for use by in-home educators, homeschool parents and their students. The presentation is accessible to the public. It can be used and viewed as a stand alone e-learning video or used in conjunction with my full preschool curriculum and weekly lessons. The main focus of this lesson was to show and illustrate different career fields. It

  Coherence Principle Analysis Paper! Coherence Principle            According to the book, Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning, Coherence Principle simple states to "avoid any material that does not support the instructional goal" (Clark, Mayer, 2016). Take a look at the photo above? At first glance you may notice it is a bear. There is a tongue and ears, a nose and eyes. If you look at it long enough you will see the different shapes patterns and colors that are also there. This graphic is eye-catching but is not be the right choice when designing an informative e-learning unit about bears. The graphic is overly busy and distracting. The graphic also does not contribute any knowledge about the topic of bears. Therefore, this graphic would not support my instructional goals. Extraneous Text Graphics & Sound     According to the Coherence Principle, when designing e-learning multimedia products we must avoid extraneous text, graphics, and

  The Modality Principle Presentation! The narrated presentation I created this week was about The Modality Principle. This presentation is intended for Pre-school Instructors that create or design preschool e-learning modules. The presentation covers  the modality principle and some of the limitations it has depending on the target audience and their cognitive processing ability. I review the modality principle and the reasoning behind why we use it. I give examples of when we don't need to use the Modality Principle (limits). In the making of the presentation itself, I used the Modality Principles from Clark and Mayer's book. I narrated my presentation, I used on screen text as well as audio narration. I also used animations and graphics that were both decorative and informative. On slides where I placed informative graphics, I also used audio narration. I did this in an effort not to overload the cognitive ability of my intended audience.  According to Clark and Mayer, if  y

  Google Sheets for PreK Attendance Tutorial Here!      The tutorial I created is a step by step guide on how to create a preschool attendance record using Google Sheets. Google Sheets is an app that can be accessed through Google Chrome the internet browser. In-home preschool instructors are solely responsible for keeping record of what students are using their services and how often. This tutorial will help teachers keep a professional attendance record that can be saved to their Google account and easily submitted to the state at the end of the year.  After watching the tutorial teacher will be able to: - Locate Google Sheets app on Google - Locate the attendance template - Create a customized Google Sheets attendance record     I completed this tutorial with the intention that teachers would be able to understand the information presented easily. I decided to use a multimedia presentation. A multimedia presentation consists of both text and pictures. The multimedia principle states