I was just sitting here thinking about how easy it was to create this blog! I think that I might like to use this with my students next school year! This year, my school district has subscribed to a program entitled, "School Fusion." This site gives me the chance to have an online site for each of my classes to post discussions, online quizzes and tests, videos, homework assignments, announcements, etc. I think that possibly, blogging might also give students a chance to become more interactive with class material. I can blog on "school fusion" with students, but I think I might really consider having them create a blogging account where they might also post things on their own time.
Well, I am looking forward to learning along with the rest of you during this course. Have a great weekend!
Christina
Hi Kristina,
ReplyDeleteMy wife is from CO (Denver) and her brother lives in Louisville/Boulder area. My school is also on School Fusion and if used to its fullest capabilities it is a really nice tool. The other thing that I like about it is that students can upload their work to their own account. If they get into this habit then they can access their work from anywhere where they can get onto the Internet...home, school, vacation. Eliminates excuses! :-)
Bruce,
ReplyDeleteI agree! I have many students that save work to thier files in School Fusion and then can access it from the classroom, including Power Point presentations, etc. It is a great tool!
Week Two Posting: GAME plan for Performance Indicators
ReplyDeleteAs I looked through the ISTE NETS Performance Indicators for teachers from http://www.iste.org/Libraries/PDFs/NETS_for_Teachers_2008_EN.sflb.ashx
I realized that though I could use some improvement in each indicator because of its specific components, I feel like I would like to focus on indicator 2. Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments and on indicator 3. Model Digital Age Work and Learning. Both of these indicators seem like a great start for what I would like to accomplish next year, which is to use some of the technology tools that I already have better than I have used them this year.
For both of these indicators, I not only need to incorporate technology use to help students to understand and achieve, but I also need be modeling their specific uses during classroom time within my own lessons. Going back to the "GAME" plan introduced by Cennamo, Ross, and Ertmer(2009) in thier text, I think that the following plan will work well to begin during the beginning of the next school year and even during the summer months that I will have off.
Goal- I will learn to more effectively use the document camera and its software in order to bring new ways of viewing documents,assignments, and using live tools such as cameras and video to the classroom first hand.
Action- I will ask my principal to move forward with the idea of having a specific professional learning class in the use of document cameras for teachers either during the summer months or at the beginning of the school year. I will also ask for the help of colleagues whom I know use this tool regularly in thier classrooms.
Monitor- I can monitor my own progress by taking a self inventory each quarter of the school year to ask myself how often I have used the document camera and its features in the classroom, how successful my experiences were, how the technology helped my lesson planning, and then move to other technology that I might explore.
Evaluate- I will ask myself what other technology goals can I make once I feel like I am comfortable with document camera use. I can also poll students on how they felt the use of the technology helped them to better understand the content.
I will be curious to read about other teachers' goals as far as technology and what steps you might be taking also :)