The TIP Model in Action

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Read each of the following scenarios related to implementing the TIP Model, and answer the questions that follow it based on your Chapter 6 reading activities.

This activity contains 5 questions.

Mr. Joaquin is looking for a more motivating alternative to traditional written book reports. His fifth-grade students do not especially like reading books or writing book reports. Mr. Joaquin was talking to a colleague who uses HyperStudio multimedia software to make doing book reports more appealing to students.

1.1 Describe how you think using HyperStudio multimedia software would make it more likely Mr. Joaquin's students would enjoy doing book reports.

1.2 What would be the relative advantage of using this software tool?

1.3 Would it be better to have the students work individually or in groups to do the exercises? How would you arrange the computer systems to carry out this strategy?

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Mr. Clint and Ms. Snyder, two junior high school social studies teachers, plan a school-wide project to document the history of the local area by focusing on the families whose personal histories are intertwined with the history of the region. They plan to have students interview many individual family members and research local sources of historical information. Then they want the students to organize all of the information into a book about the history of the local region.

2.1 What multimedia tools could the teachers use to enhance and support this project?

2.2 What would be the relative advantage of using such multimedia tools?

2.3 This kind of project would require a lot of work to research and organize information and to produce the final product. Suggest some ways this work could be divided up and accomplished among classes to model for students how to organize work tasks in a large, complex project.

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Mr. Eliott is a fourth-grade teacher and has several students in his class who speak English as a second language. He works on increasing the comprehension skills for each of his students and encourages them to read books and stories to practice their skills. His students who speak English as their second language have trouble reading independently, and Mr. Eliott does not have the time to read to each of them individually. He would like a way they can have books read aloud to them in an enjoyable way and also answer comprehension questions about what they have heard and read.

3.1 What kind of multimedia tool could help Mr. Eliott address this problem?

3.2 What would be the relative advantages of using this tool with his students who speak English as a second language?

3.3 How would it be possible for these students to use this tool in class but not disturb or distract other students?

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Ms. Warnick is a high school curriculum coordinator who wants the students to prepare an electronic portfolio they can take with them to display the quality of their work and what they have accomplished throughout their courses. She would like this to include film footage of them giving class presentations, as well as digital samples of their work. The completed portfolio for graduating seniors would be placed on a CD they could take with them.

4.1 What multimedia tool would you recommend Ms. Warnick use to address this problem?

4.2 What would be the relative advantage of using this tool?

4.3 If she wanted teachers to assist with this activity, what would she have to make sure was done before the portfolio concept was introduced to students?

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Ms. Bradley's eighth-grade language arts students have a spelling test every Friday, and spelling counts for 10% of their overall semester grade. There is no time during the regular class period during the week to allow students to practice, and it is obvious from their grades that many students do not study the words outside class. Ms. Bradley thought of a way to use Microsoft PowerPoint software to make sure her students see all the spelling words and hear them pronounced every time they come in the classroom and every time they leave.

5.1 How do you think Ms. Bradley uses PowerPoint software to address this problem?

5.2 What would be the relative advantage of using PowerPoint software for this purpose?

5.3 Which of PowerPoint's multimedia benefits is Ms. Bradley using for this activity?

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