GAME plan progress: Week 5 update
There are only 12 days of school left. My days are filled with report cards, portfolios, and PTD folders.I am still excited about using technology in my classroom! I will be using my technology equipment to the last day of school.
1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity a. promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership a. participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning.
Each day I still have been posting “Think About Questions” for my students to draw and write about in their journals. We share with partners and then as a class. We made our worm habitat this week and we will be writing more facts about our animal for research to complete our books.
My Promethean training is not until the summer; however I have been keeping a chart of websites that I can use for next year. Thank you to all my Walden classmates who continue to share wonderful sites!
This one is the last one I added to my list from Rachel...
http://storybird.com/books/learning-about-storybird/
Laureate Education, Inc. (2009) Integrating Technology Across the Content Areas. Meeting Students’ Needs with Technology, Part 1.
Cennamo, K., Ross, J. & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology Integration for Meaningful Classroom Use: A Standards-Based Approach. (Laureate Education, Inc., Custom ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
GAME plan progress
GAME plan progress
My first goal:
1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity a. promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
Here is a quick list for this week of innovative thinking question for my first grade class. This is part of my electronic file for next year.
Think About Questions
Monday- What would our classroom look like to a mouse?
Tuesday – If we were going on a trip to the beach, what would we need to take?
Wednesday – Describe how the hen and the chicken are the same or different.
Thursday – What would a wiggly worm say to a sticky spider?
Friday – If you could have an animal as a friend what would it be? Explain.
My second goal:
5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership a. participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning.
For my training this summer, I thought it would be helpful to understand what I already know and what I want to learn from the training.
Promethean Training
WHAT I KNOW
How to make pictures that are able to move next to matching words.
How to annotate over the desk top.
How to save current flipcharts to later open.
How to add a table to an active inspire flipchart.
WHAT I WANT TO LEARN
How to create summative assessment with interactive tablets.
How to hide information for students to uncover when then select a tab.
How to add animation and voice to flipcharts.
My first goal:
1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity a. promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
Here is a quick list for this week of innovative thinking question for my first grade class. This is part of my electronic file for next year.
Think About Questions
Monday- What would our classroom look like to a mouse?
Tuesday – If we were going on a trip to the beach, what would we need to take?
Wednesday – Describe how the hen and the chicken are the same or different.
Thursday – What would a wiggly worm say to a sticky spider?
Friday – If you could have an animal as a friend what would it be? Explain.
My second goal:
5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership a. participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning.
For my training this summer, I thought it would be helpful to understand what I already know and what I want to learn from the training.
Promethean Training
WHAT I KNOW
How to make pictures that are able to move next to matching words.
How to annotate over the desk top.
How to save current flipcharts to later open.
How to add a table to an active inspire flipchart.
WHAT I WANT TO LEARN
How to create summative assessment with interactive tablets.
How to hide information for students to uncover when then select a tab.
How to add animation and voice to flipcharts.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Review of GAME plan
Review of GAME Plan
Week 3 posting for my Walden University Class
EDUC 6713: Integrating Technology Across the Content Areas.
Resources needed to carry out plan: In my previous posting I explained my GAME plan. Our school year is quickly coming to a close and the use of my Promethean Board and the program Active Inspire are two key resources that I will need to continue documenting essential questions. My training will take place over the summer. Files need to be made for my electronic saved questions.
Additional information needed:
• 5 make and take activities from my Promethean Training.
• Tally and chart of questions that I have already asked my class.
Steps in the right direction of my GAME plan:
I have already started documenting the questions that my students have answered and have started a file of used questions.
Week 3 posting for my Walden University Class
EDUC 6713: Integrating Technology Across the Content Areas.
Resources needed to carry out plan: In my previous posting I explained my GAME plan. Our school year is quickly coming to a close and the use of my Promethean Board and the program Active Inspire are two key resources that I will need to continue documenting essential questions. My training will take place over the summer. Files need to be made for my electronic saved questions.
Additional information needed:
• 5 make and take activities from my Promethean Training.
• Tally and chart of questions that I have already asked my class.
Steps in the right direction of my GAME plan:
I have already started documenting the questions that my students have answered and have started a file of used questions.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
GAME PLAN
This posting is for my graduate class from Walden University.
EDUC 6713: Integrating Technology Across the Content Areas.
Developing My Personal GAME Plan
The five Performance Indicators for Teachers can be found on the web site for The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the National Education Standards for Teacher (NETS-T) http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf
Teachers: 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity 2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments 3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning 4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
The video lecture by Dr. Katherine Cennamo describes how being self-directed can support and enhance learning. The GAME plan is a self-directed way of learning. My GAME plan for professional growth:
GOAL
1.Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity a. promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership a. participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning.
ACTION
Everyday my lessons will have a creative piece for my students to be innovative thinkers. There will a daily post of a question in my class to help my first grade class practice inventiveness. This summer I will participate in a Promethean Training.
MONITOR
As the warm up for each day I will engage my students in creative thinking. Collect and keep answers on the Promethean Board to reflect, tally, evaluate, and save for future use. After attending the Promethean training I hope to have at least 5 make and take ideas to grow as a professional with creative applications of technology to improve student learning.
EVALUATE
To keep track of the creative ideas I will make a digital folder of practice thinking questions to share with other teachers as well as to add to each year. I will make a binder of “How To” for the Promethean to help myself and fellow teachers use as a reference.
Laureate Education, Inc. (2009) Integrating Technology Across the Content Areas. Promoting Self-Directed Learning with Technology.
EDUC 6713: Integrating Technology Across the Content Areas.
Developing My Personal GAME Plan
The five Performance Indicators for Teachers can be found on the web site for The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the National Education Standards for Teacher (NETS-T) http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf
Teachers: 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity 2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments 3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning 4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
The video lecture by Dr. Katherine Cennamo describes how being self-directed can support and enhance learning. The GAME plan is a self-directed way of learning. My GAME plan for professional growth:
GOAL
1.Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity a. promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership a. participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning.
ACTION
Everyday my lessons will have a creative piece for my students to be innovative thinkers. There will a daily post of a question in my class to help my first grade class practice inventiveness. This summer I will participate in a Promethean Training.
MONITOR
As the warm up for each day I will engage my students in creative thinking. Collect and keep answers on the Promethean Board to reflect, tally, evaluate, and save for future use. After attending the Promethean training I hope to have at least 5 make and take ideas to grow as a professional with creative applications of technology to improve student learning.
EVALUATE
To keep track of the creative ideas I will make a digital folder of practice thinking questions to share with other teachers as well as to add to each year. I will make a binder of “How To” for the Promethean to help myself and fellow teachers use as a reference.
Laureate Education, Inc. (2009) Integrating Technology Across the Content Areas. Promoting Self-Directed Learning with Technology.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Reflection/Supporting Information Literacy and Online Inquiry in the Classroom
Reflection Week 8
Blog posting for Walden University
EDUC 6712: Supporting Information Literacy and Online Inquiry in the Classroom
At the completion of this course I am inspired to create screencasts to share with my first grade class. In the past courses I have learned about how to make a wiki, blog, voicethread and podcast. The new knowledge of a how to make a screencast is a wonderful way to help my class learn about the internet. With a screencast I will be able to enhance my teaching of how to navigate the internet. My first grade class is in the beginning stages of how to find things on the internet. With the viewing of a screencast my students will be able to see visually how to find information about their animal. We make animal books and each student writes about the animal of their choice. They will be looking for animal facts which include their physical features and habitat. Explaining to my class that all of the information on the internet is not accurate is a difficult task. At the first grade level, most of my students are unaware that a web site could be inaccurate. Information literacy can start as early as first grade, but it is only a piece of the technology skills needed for success is learning 21st century skills. Students need to understand that everything on the internet is not factual. They also need the skills to determine what can be factual. Another good skill would include how to find information. Teaching my first grade class the specific search engines and specific extensions will help them find the reliable web sites.
The one thing that I would like to share with my first grade class is the ability to express themselves in a blog. There are many obstacles within my school district, but I hope soon that those obstacles are lifted. With detailed lesson plans and objectives clearly stated, my hope is that each teacher will have access to blog websites for 21st century learning. I know how much my students would enjoy having other students comment and encourage each other in the writing process.
Eagleton, M. B., & Dobler, E. (2007). Reading the Web: Strategies for Internet inquiry. New York: The Guilford Press.
November, A. (2008). Web Literacy for educators. Thousands Oaks: Corwin Press.
Blog posting for Walden University
EDUC 6712: Supporting Information Literacy and Online Inquiry in the Classroom
At the completion of this course I am inspired to create screencasts to share with my first grade class. In the past courses I have learned about how to make a wiki, blog, voicethread and podcast. The new knowledge of a how to make a screencast is a wonderful way to help my class learn about the internet. With a screencast I will be able to enhance my teaching of how to navigate the internet. My first grade class is in the beginning stages of how to find things on the internet. With the viewing of a screencast my students will be able to see visually how to find information about their animal. We make animal books and each student writes about the animal of their choice. They will be looking for animal facts which include their physical features and habitat. Explaining to my class that all of the information on the internet is not accurate is a difficult task. At the first grade level, most of my students are unaware that a web site could be inaccurate. Information literacy can start as early as first grade, but it is only a piece of the technology skills needed for success is learning 21st century skills. Students need to understand that everything on the internet is not factual. They also need the skills to determine what can be factual. Another good skill would include how to find information. Teaching my first grade class the specific search engines and specific extensions will help them find the reliable web sites.
The one thing that I would like to share with my first grade class is the ability to express themselves in a blog. There are many obstacles within my school district, but I hope soon that those obstacles are lifted. With detailed lesson plans and objectives clearly stated, my hope is that each teacher will have access to blog websites for 21st century learning. I know how much my students would enjoy having other students comment and encourage each other in the writing process.
Eagleton, M. B., & Dobler, E. (2007). Reading the Web: Strategies for Internet inquiry. New York: The Guilford Press.
November, A. (2008). Web Literacy for educators. Thousands Oaks: Corwin Press.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Think Out Loud Evaluations
Blog posting for Walden University
EDUC 6712: Supporting Information Literacy and Online Inquiry in the Classroom
Week 4 Reflection
I think that it can be very difficult for a student to decide whether a site is valid without the tools to help them. Critical thinking skills are a key to a student’s success when navigating a web site. Giving our students a check list of some things to look for, such as the ABC’s, will help in their quest for accurate information.
Please use the following link to view my Screen Capture with Audio recording.
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=170610&title=Pacific_Northwest_Tree_Octopus
Resources
Laureate Education, Inc. (2009) Supporting Information Literacy and Online Inquiry in the Classroom. A Teacher’s Perspective: Evaluating Information Online.
Laureate Education, Inc. (2009) Supporting Information Literacy and Online Inquiry in the Classroom. Information Literacy: Evaluating Information.
November, A. (2008). Web Literacy for educators. Thousands Oaks: Corwin Press.
EDUC 6712: Supporting Information Literacy and Online Inquiry in the Classroom
Week 4 Reflection
I think that it can be very difficult for a student to decide whether a site is valid without the tools to help them. Critical thinking skills are a key to a student’s success when navigating a web site. Giving our students a check list of some things to look for, such as the ABC’s, will help in their quest for accurate information.
Please use the following link to view my Screen Capture with Audio recording.
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=170610&title=Pacific_Northwest_Tree_Octopus
Resources
Laureate Education, Inc. (2009) Supporting Information Literacy and Online Inquiry in the Classroom. A Teacher’s Perspective: Evaluating Information Online.
Laureate Education, Inc. (2009) Supporting Information Literacy and Online Inquiry in the Classroom. Information Literacy: Evaluating Information.
November, A. (2008). Web Literacy for educators. Thousands Oaks: Corwin Press.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Reflection for Bridging Learning Theory, Instruction, and Technology
“Instructional Theory vs. Learning Theory” by Dr. Orey describes how learning theories can inform technology integration in the classroom. The Learning Theory examines what goes on in the learners mind during the learning process. Instructional Theory is when strategies for changing the learning environment to facilitate learning. When I think of these two theories I find myself using both. One feeds into the other.
What I have learned is that the theory of Multiple Intelligences would best describe my personal theory on how students learn. With teacher-centered activities I understand that learning is personal to each child. The use of many ways to teach the same information is a great way to ensure that my first grade has a good understanding of the curriculum. When we create a lesson to meet the needs of our students we need to understand that each student has a different learning style. The environment in which we teach information can also vary. (Orey, 2001)
With this in mind when I teach I try to use not just pencil and paper. I have an ELMO to show students many things for modeling. I also have access to the computer lab one to two times per week for instruction. Another good resource that I use is SafariMontage. Our county has many instructional and promethean interactive movie clips for many different subject areas. I do not have a board in my class yet. I have been told that it is coming. Additionally I have been told that I will have laptop to accompany that. I will keep my fingers crossed and continue to save lessons on my computer for use with the new board.
One long-term goal that I have is to get my students into the computer lab two times per week to work one day for math and another for reading. Currently we are there once or twice a month and it does not seem to correlate with our curriculum. Along with the computer practice I would like to have my first grade class work on a class blog together about what they are learning each week. I want to feature a few students each week.
Another thing to remember from Dr. Wolfe is that we are not teaching for the test or for school. We are teaching for life.
Laureate Education, Inc. (2009) Bridging Learning Theory, Instruction, and Technology. Instructional Theory vs. Learning Theory.
Orey, M. (Ed.). (2001). Emerging perspectives on learning, teaching, and technology. Retrieved from http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/ Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles.
What I have learned is that the theory of Multiple Intelligences would best describe my personal theory on how students learn. With teacher-centered activities I understand that learning is personal to each child. The use of many ways to teach the same information is a great way to ensure that my first grade has a good understanding of the curriculum. When we create a lesson to meet the needs of our students we need to understand that each student has a different learning style. The environment in which we teach information can also vary. (Orey, 2001)
With this in mind when I teach I try to use not just pencil and paper. I have an ELMO to show students many things for modeling. I also have access to the computer lab one to two times per week for instruction. Another good resource that I use is SafariMontage. Our county has many instructional and promethean interactive movie clips for many different subject areas. I do not have a board in my class yet. I have been told that it is coming. Additionally I have been told that I will have laptop to accompany that. I will keep my fingers crossed and continue to save lessons on my computer for use with the new board.
One long-term goal that I have is to get my students into the computer lab two times per week to work one day for math and another for reading. Currently we are there once or twice a month and it does not seem to correlate with our curriculum. Along with the computer practice I would like to have my first grade class work on a class blog together about what they are learning each week. I want to feature a few students each week.
Another thing to remember from Dr. Wolfe is that we are not teaching for the test or for school. We are teaching for life.
Laureate Education, Inc. (2009) Bridging Learning Theory, Instruction, and Technology. Instructional Theory vs. Learning Theory.
Orey, M. (Ed.). (2001). Emerging perspectives on learning, teaching, and technology. Retrieved from http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/ Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles.
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