Courtney+Phelps

Hello, my name is Courtney Phelps. I am 20 years old and from Troy, Ohio, which is a town near Dayton. I am the current president of the Women's Ultimate Frisbee Club team at Ohio University. The name of our Ultimate team is Stacked. I am an Integrated Science __#|Education__ AYA major; I really hope to teach Earth Science or Chemistry to juniors and seniors in high school.



My Wiki [|My blog] [|My Google Site]

This is an interactive powerpoint, for an Earth Science class.

Christina Myles: The PowerPoint was great! I hate science (with a passion) but I actually learned something new from your presentation! I can tell that you are very interested in the __topic__ and put alot of work into the presentation. All of your links and transitions were awesome! Keep up the good work and I'm sure you will have no problem with the rest of your course work! (including chemistry..... *eww*)

Jessica Renfrow: Courtney, I thought you did an excellent job on your PowerPoint. All of your links worked appropriately and you had great visuals. I enjoyed the choices you made for organizing your slides. I though it was a great idea to have a visual of each of the layers and allow __#|students__ to select the dot next the title of that layer. It was great interaction and I'm sure it would keep your students engaged!

Jay Minium peer review #1 - Courtney, I really liked the powerpoint. All of the buttons worked the way they should have and all the slides looked great. There were a lot of good transitions and it gave students a lot of ways to interact with the powerpoint and keep them engaged. I couldn't see any problems with the powerpoint everything was done well.

Week Three: [|Picasa assignment]

Week 4: [|WebQuest]

Jessica Renfrow peer review #2: Courtney, I loved your task of having them create __travel brochures__ for each of the biomes. All of the images were very fitting for the topic and I especially enjoyed the biome youtube video. I thought it was so cute! The only recommendation I have is to maybe include more website on your webquest for each of the biomes. Although the video touched on each of them I think additional resources would definitely give the details you were looking for in the student __#|brochures__ such as pictures, countries in which the biomes are found, along with the climate and animals. I think you did a great job on your webquest!

Christina Myles: This webquest is really good! I love the fact that you are allowing your students to choose which type of land they want to cover and that they are able to make it into a brochure instead of a boring essay. This is a really cool webquest! The process was explained in great detail and I feel that the students would understand what to do! Your rubric was organized and all your pictures were relevant! My one suggestion would be to have more resources so that the students won't have to look at unreliable sources, other than that good __#|job__!

Jay Minium peer review 2 I really enjoyed this webquest. I really liked the idea of the travel brochure. Most of my science teachers were never creative enough to think of stuff like this for us to do. Everything was explained very clearly and was easily understood. The only thing that I can think of that could use work would be the number of resources. he video was good but maybe putting in something else would help. That isn't a big issue at all though and could easily be changed. Good job on the webquest.

Week 5: [|SURVEY]

WEEK 6: [|MOVIE]

Jessica Renfrow peer review #3: Courtney, I thought you had a great mini lesson on plate tectonics. It seemed to be very appropriate for the grade level listed and the video had great information and images! All of your transitions were great and all of the criteria was met. Great job on your video!

Christina Myles: I thought that your video on Plate Tectonics was really good! I like the pictures and how you gave pictures for examples on each of your topics. The one thing I would comment on would be that on some of the word slides, they didn't stay up for a long time, causing a hard time for reading. In the future, just the slides a little longer and it should be perfect!

Jay Minium peer review #3 Courtney, I thought your video on plate tectonics was very well put together. You gave a lot of information that was all supported by pictures for every separate topic. The only thing that I saw that didn’t seem to work that well was that the text on the slides went away very quickly but other than that everything was very good. Great job.

Week 7: [|Voice Thread]

Courtney Weiss group review Courtney, Alex, and Keegan, I thought your VoiceThread was very well done. All of the audio and comments worked very well. It was appropriate for grade level and I believe it would catch students attention. I thought it was very clear and I liked how you drew on the picture to explain where each position is on the field. Overall, I thought it was a great VoiceThread that students would enjoy.

WEEK 8: media type="file" key="Courtney-Podcast.mp3" width="240" height="20"

Jessica's Review: I think your lesson is prefect for your target class and age group. I enjoyed the chemistry lesson and thought you did a great job incorporating sound effects in this podcast. Great job!

Christina's Review: Your podcast was awesome! I loved the lesson and it was age and content appropriate! All your sound effects were good and everything was clear, great job!

Jay Minium #5 - The podcast was very well put together. I could hear everything clearly and the sound effects went well with everything else. good job!

Week 9: