1. What? (What is the CONTEXT of the artifact? What is it? When and why was it produced?)
The video created and used for artifact 3 is an example of how I recently tried to establish a culture and love for reading by hosting this costume contest in the library and video lab at my school. This fits the Danielson "Domain 2" standard. Students were allowed to dress up in costume as a character from a book and agree to be video-recorded in our new video lab to promote books and technology. Students who participated were treated to a pizza party in the library with pizza from a favorite local restaurant and monster mash music in the background. They socialized with each other and students who were in the video club were able to participate on the editing/tech side of the video.
2. So What? (What is the ROLE of the artifact? Why did I select it as evidence for meeting this standard? What does it say about my growing competence as a teacher?)
I think this video is evidence that I am trying new ways to establish a culture and love for reading in my library. Although the turnout of people participating was not as high as I had hoped, the few who did participate were really excited to be part of the event. I hope that this experience prompts those who participated as well as those who will view the video over the next week, to feel that the library really is a fun place with fun happenings and to let kids know it is ok and even cool to talk about books and characters they love from books.
3. Now What? (What is the IMPORTANCE of the artifact? How did producing the artifact help me improve my professional competence and what will I do to continue to improve relative to this standard?)
I hope to do this contest again next Halloween and I hope that through this artifact of the video, I will be able to inspire more student and teacher participation. I will have this video available for students to view next year in their language arts classes and I am hoping for more participation next year. I think this year was a harder sell because students may have thought they would have to do or say something that made them feel uncomfortable.
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