Reflection #5 Vidcast Reflection

Jorduyn’s Day

This vidcast connects with the 2^nd grade Social Studies core curriculum Standard 2, Objective 2: Identify individuals within the school community and how they contribute to the school's success.

I chose to do this topic because of my dear friend who has lymphoma. She was diagnosed when she was fourteen years old, and her family was having financial problems. For example, her mom had to get a job to help with all the bills because her dad was not making any money selling his pieces of art. My friend has really been an inspiration to me. After seeing her positive outlook on life despite all her trials and tribulations it made me want to do something for someone else. That is when I decided to do “Jorduyn’s Day”.

This public service announcement was to help students, faculty, and the community be aware of this cancer and the trials that occur. This is also to help raise money for the family. Even if people were not able to come to the day we planned, it was to let the community and people be aware of things that are out there and ways they can help and get involved. It helps others to put aside what they may be struggling with at that particular time to help someone else, and help some other family with something that in a lot of cases, have bigger things on their plate to deal with.

In the NETS standards, this vidcast connects to the 5^th standard, which is Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership. This vidcast uses technology to promote an event allowing students and teachers to get involved and head up a project to help someone in need from the community. The teachers that are involved are able to participate in the local community and to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning not only about lymphoma but also about how to put an event like this together.

In the INTASC standards the 3^rd standard, Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning, connects best with our vidcast. Under this standard engage families as partners in learning and accommodating individual students physical growth, connects with this vidcast in getting parents involved in learning about this type of cancer and helping the students accept someone for being different, and allowing the student with cancer to still feel comfortable at school regardless of their disability or health state.

A potential drawback that I can see is that Jorduyn’s day only happened one time and is not an ongoing event because Jorduyn may not be around forever; although, we can do this event every year, but not for a specific child. We could be able to continue this event as a lymphoma awareness charity event. All of the money raised would go to cancer research to help save children in the future. I think that it definitely is something that we will be able to refer to and brainstorm off of to get other ideas about how we can help other children or families in the community.