Sunday, November 20, 2011

Storyboard

Storyboard
Names: Katrina Pearson
UEN Standard: Standard 5 
Students will discuss and participate in bakery food production.
Objective 2 
Identify the types, mixing, and storage methods of various bakery products including cookies, quick breads, yeast breads, pastries. cakes, icings, frosting, and fillings. (Pastries)
Lesson Objective: How to do a lattice pie crust.
After viewing this video-they students would then practice on paper then actually make the lattice pie crust. Easier then a demo in class!
Scene

Script/Description
1 Camera shows a beautiful lattice apple pie

My voice over: “Doesn't that look beautiful? It looks complex and difficult but if you watch carefully in the next five minutes, you'll see that this beautiful decorative pie crust is easy and very achievable. I'm serious. Just watch”

2
Mix pie crust

Demonstrate the pie crust



Tell a personal story-get the student engaged. Make this personal-all about the holidays! Maybe have Cami or Natalie there to teach them. Live audience? They could ask questions too

Mix pre-measured ingredients in a bowl
talking everything through including measurements.

Cutting in the crisco (this can be done with butter as well).
-You can use a pastry cutter or a fork, although pastry cutters are much easier-divides in half, then fourths, etc.
-Don't let the crisco pieces get too small or you won't get a really great marbling
-explain about fat and how the steam pushes the layers up-this creates the flaky crust. You want marble-ing-

divide in half

roll one out (saving the other one for the top.
-explain how one needs to be larger if you're only doing another flat top vs lattice top.


3
Demonstrate Filling



Storyboard
-A lot of people are worried about oxidation but with the pie filing, you can let the apples brown as much as you want.
-they'll get brown in the oven but don't add the sugar until right when you'll put the pie filling into the crust. The sugar will let the juices out of the apples and then it will just get messy.
Add cinnamon, nutmeg etc.
-tricks for cutting apples demonstrate coring etc.


4
Lattice Pastry Topping

Maybe another crumble topping extra?


-if you're doing a lattice topping the bottom crust needs to be larger so it can curl up around the bottom and catch the juices from the filling. If you are just doing a flat top, that top layer of dough needs to be larger so you can curl it under.

Show with paper cut outs first so they get the idea-
maybe show family practicing? -too cheesy?

Demonstrate the actual lattice crossing. Press edges-show different techniques.

Bake and enjoy! :)

Sunday, November 13, 2011

PTP Assignment 2

Diigo

This is a great technology to use in the classroom. It's a great way to go through the internet, highlighting and bookmarking. I find that it would be a fantastic way to study and write a research paper. That being said, I honestly believe this technology could be more beneficial for an English major who will be reading documents online and annotating stories to teach to his or her students. I found it much more professional than Pinterest however and I feel like I will use this technology a lot more when I'm actually planning lessons.

1. I learned that Diigo is a great way to save documents online, web pages or pictures that may be useful for teaching. It's also great if you were to join groups. I thought that was really great. You could form groups with your fellow teachers and collaborate on your findings. You could even do that within different schools. It is a great way to share information easily with others.
2. If there are those who are sick and at home, this would be a great technology to use for those missing classes. Linking them to web pages or adding them to a group would be great-they could see the web document or picture you found and see your notes as well. That way, they could almost teach themselves.
3. You could definitely use this technology by having students read or look at certain web pages and have them annotate their thoughts as well, right there on the page. Obviously you would have class groups etc. This would help me as a teacher, see what they thought during certain sections. I'm not sure however, if you have the option of printing pages with your highlights and annotations right on the page. That would be a great way to turn in assignments as well.
You could also have students look up weekly recipes and bookmark them as an assignment. This would be a lot easier through Diigo than printing them out each week. Research is a great use of Diigo. Making sure you have your resources all ready is great-if I were to every assign research papers-I would definitely direct my students to using Diigo.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

PTP Assignment #1

For my first personal technology project I chose to explore PInterest. I kept hearing about this site and how so many women were "addicted". I didn't want to get involved in something I was just fine without. But I am so glad I was able to learn more about this technology. It is extremely useful especially for a FACS teacher.
1. I learned that some people go crazy with things they pin. They pin everything they think is cute and it's really great that you can not follow certain people or even certain boards. I love that you can view what your friends are pinning on one page and then what people all over the Pinterest network are looking at. Different recipes and pictures get passed around for a couple days so after a while you start seeing the same things.
2. I wish that I could set my boards to private. Anyone can follow me and my boards. I don't like that someone could just watch me pin everything I like. I think there should be an option, such as on facebook, to deny people following you. It would be nice to create different accounts for my personal tastes and my teaching. If I wanted my students to follow the things I was finding and share different interior pictures or recipes and sewing tips, it would be nice for them to only see those things on a professional level. I have already made some boards for collecting ideas for future teaching lessons as well as pictures and tutorials to use in slides.
3. I would use this technology for finding pictures as I mentioned before for slide uses. I found some great pictures of interior design and they would be great to use in lessons. I also came across fun sewing projects to do and some simple sewing tutorials my students could be directed to. It would be great to have them start to follow other people who are interested in sewing or foods as well. One student could find a recipe they liked, try it and then report on it.