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Goal

In Career and Technical Education, our goal is that students will be future ready. We want our CTE students to be ready with the content skills and the foundational job skills that will help them succeed. It is essential that our students interact with health care professionals to help them prepare for their future careers. I will invite many guest speakers to come into the classroom. However, there are two problems with having guest speakers: 1) they can seldom take time from their busy schedules to spend an entire day to speak to all my classes, and 2) when we try to use our smartphones or iPads to record their visits for other classes to view, the quality (especially sound quality) is not good. The Swivl technology provides high quality audio and video recording which solves this problem. The Swivl offers several other benefits to the students. In order to develop students' foundational job skills, we can record student presentations in order to allow students to reflect on how to improve their foundational job skills and to provide high quality evidence for their digital portfolios.  

What will be done with my students

I plan to use this technology with my CTE students in several ways:
1) Record visits from guest speakers with high quality audio and video.
2) Record student presentations with high quality audio and video
3) Record lessons for students to view later (a "flipped classroom" practice)
4) Record lessons for self-assessment of my own teaching practices.

There are many other possible uses for this technology that will benefit students. For more information and to see videos of this technology in action, please go to Swivl.com.
 

Benefits to my students

With the Swivl technology, I will be able to obtain high quality video and audio recordings of guest speakers. Most guest speakers are not able to stay an entire school day to speak with students. With this technology, I can obtain high quality audio and video recordings of guest speakers and make the recording available for all my students. The Swivl robot tracks the speaker as he/she moves around the classroom. The speaker wears a mini-microphone/marker which the Swivl robot tracks and allows high quality audio recordings. No longer do I need to run the camera myself (or ask a student to run the equipment).

With the Swivl technology, I will be able to obtain high quality audio and video recordings of student presentations. These recordings will help students develop their foundational job skills and will be placed in their digital portfolios.

With the Swivl technology, I will be able to record a lesson and have it available for students to view. This "Flipped Classroom" model allows students to view a lesson at home, and then come to class prepared to participate in real-world projects. The recordings also make it easy for students who are absent to view lessons they missed.

With the Swivl technology, I will be able to obtain high quality recordings of my lessons to use for self-reflection on my teaching practices. My students will benefit when I improve my teaching!  

Budget Narrative

The C-5 Model Swivl comes with 5 markers (microphones) that I can use to obtain high quality audio recordings of up to 4 people at the same time (for example, 4 students working as a team during a presentation). I will use my own iPad as the recording device. The Swivl can be used with other tablets, too. The Swivl model comes with the cloud-based software platform that allows students and teachers to create and edit their own video recordings. The wide angle lens allows viewing of the entire classroom, while the stand will supply the support for the Swivl. All items will be purchased from Swivl.com.  

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