For this assignment, you need to have watched, read and thought about how to direct model problems of the types: JRU, SRU, JCU, and CDU.

You will also need some technology tools. You should have downloaded and installed the SMART Notebook software for the previous assignments.

You should have downloaded and installed Jing from http://www.jingproject.com/

Please make a test video first, to make sure that the microphone (built in or plugged in) is working, and will record your comments as you solve the problems.

Once you have done that, download this SMART Notebook file (alternate link: ProbsToDirectModelv2.notebook)

Note: downloading Smart Notebook files seems to not work with some web browsers for reasons I don't fully understand (the files are not openable when downloaded)-- Firefox seems to work better than Explorer. The thing that seems to go wrong is that the suffix (.notebook) is lost from the filename when it is downloaded (so sometimes adding the suffix to the file name makes the file work).  Alternately, you can e-mail me at the beginning of each unit, and I can e-mail you the files (that generally seems to work).  If neither this link nor e-mail works for getting you a file you can open, please let me know, so I can experiment with some other ways to get you notebook files.

In this file, there are 4 pages.  Each page has a word problem for you to solve, and a set of colored squares on the left for you to use as manipulatives. These colored squares are set to be infinite cloners: that means that you can click and drag on it, and it will make a colored square for you to use (so, each square will make as many squares as you want). Look through the file, and figure out what you would do with each of the problems, and then start Jing.

Go through each page, and show me how you would direct model to solve that problem (as if you were a child--I should see that your strategy follows what the videos show as being the typical way that children direct model problems of thses types), so that you have done 4 problems in your movie at the end. You should talk through what you are doing as you solve each problem (provide commentary). Jing has a maximum of 5 minutes recording time. If you can't do all 4 problems in 5 minutes, you can split it over two movies.

You can submit Jing movies in one of two ways:

• you can make a free screencast.com account, upload your movie to screencast.com, and submit (in the dropbox) a Word document that tells me the web address of your screencast.com movie
• you can save your movie to your desktop and upload it (it should be a .swf file) to the dropbox.