My personal Game Plan truly has been a journey as I have learned new ways to integrate technology into my content areas of instruction. Last week I used my newly created power point with my students. It was a very successful experience. My students were very attentive and interested in the subject matter. My co-work who does not really enjoy Social Studies was impressed with my lesson. She on the other hand is an expert in the field of music. Last year I watched her transform 80 kids into an amazing Dinosaur program in 3 weeks. I was in aw! This next week we plan to swap kids, I will take her students and teach them, social studies and she will take my students and teach them fine arts. I think this is one of the highest forms of collaboration. I am actually excited to do this. I am beginning to like the idea of establish NODES, or personal learning networks. This is a way for each teacher us use their expertise for the benefit of all students.
My Game Plan #2… Design and Develop a Digital Age Learning experience was a wonderful success and I feel like I am able to say I did what I set out to do. I learned how to make a power point! I of course will continue to develop this new skill. But I feel like I can say “Mission Accomplished”. My Game Plan H5 …Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership has turned out a bit different than I expected. I originally was planning to become more familiar with our school interactive website, however because it is so new to our staff, even the expert technologists at my school are having difficulties with it. I did find that through my experience with my development of digital media things just seemed to fall into place and I am able to engage in professional growth and leadership by collaborating with people in person… I was hoping to collaborate on the website but in person works too, and isn’t this the highest form of collaboration????
What have I learned so far that I can apply in my instructional practices?
• I learned you should not use Wiki as a working copy.. it tends to freeze up and you can’t save your work.
• I have learned there is a lot more I need to learn about wikis
• I learned there are lots of technologies and ideas but we don’t have to implement them all, we just need to find what works for us.
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