What have you learned so far that you can apply in your instructional practice?
So far in this course I have learned a great deal that I can apply to my instructional practice, I am hoping to look into and take advantage of live mocha, blogmeister, tagging, google presentations, epals, moodle, twitter, edublogs, ning, and wiggio.
What goals are you still working toward?
I am still working toward the two goals that I set for myself at the start of this course:
The goal I would like to set for myself are to involve one lesson a month that inspires creativity, currently I feel that I incorporate technology and learning, however if I could involve creativity students would be able to express their creative side more often and therefore feel successful.
The second goal I would like to set for myself is to pick two labs throughout the year where I can incorporate more authentic learning; in a science class this change to the curriculum is manageable.
I plan to integrate this plans next school year, 2010-2011.
Based on the NETS-T, what new learning goals will you set for yourself?
Based on the NETS-T I would like to continue to engage in professional growth and leadership.
If you are not ready to set new learning goals, how will you extend what you have learned so far?
I plan to set new learning goals as listed above and start new ones. I feel that teachers should be life long learners and always continue to attend professional growth and leadership opportunities.
What learning approaches will you try next time to improve your learning?
In order to improve my learning next time I will try to continue to challenge the students. Vicki Davis suggests online collaboration will continue to ask stuents to do their best and therefore become confident.
ISTE (2008). The ISTE National Educational Technology Standards (NETS•T) and Performance Indicators for Teachers Retrieved May 15th, 2010, from http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForTeachers/2008Standards/NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf
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Christine,
ReplyDeleteOne of the tendencies that I have in my Walden experience is to take all of the ideas and new technology that are presented and feel like I have to try them all out. In your blog post, you listed 10 things that you are interested in exploring more. I wonder if there is a good way to narrow our focus. How can we tell which resources to check out first and focus on? I know we don't have time to explore them all. Even in the summer months.
Let me know if you have any ideas for narrowing our focus? Thanks.
Christine,
ReplyDeleteI like your goals. Often when we make goals we get caught up in being too ambitious and make unrealistic goals that we never can keep. You have clearly defined what you want to do and taking steps that will definitely improve your classroom for everyone! Good for you! Enjoy you summer!
Scott Monthie
Christine,
ReplyDeleteAs mentioned in the other comments, this course has introduced far more than we can successfully employ as novices. I am speaking from experience as I tried quite a few programs with my students and several were just one time events as the curriculum timeline took precedence over the technology experimentation. My suggestion is pick one or two programs and plan how to use them repeatedly next year to increase your own skill along with the skills of the students. I set up a class blog and found my own understanding of the program increased greatly over this year.
Craig Jones said...
ReplyDeleteMs. Griswold,
Twice in your blog you mentioned the need to continue to grow as a teacher and to be a life long learner. As corny as it can sound when it comes out of so-called "professional development" meetings or mission statements, the need for teachers to be committed to learning is hugely important, if not for the content being learned then to be able to remember what our students are feeling like when they have massive amounts of homework and studying to be done. This humanity is hugely important to create a positive classroom environment! Kudos!