Monday, August 31, 2009
Lseeon 12 Reflections
Right now my head is spinning with ideas and I feel a little overwhelmed with all my new knowledge. I think one thing that I want to focus on this year is collaboration. I want to provide students with more opportunities to collaborate with peers and adults. I would like to provide parents with ways for them to collaborate with teachers, parents and students. I think I will use a blog to help me with this. I will need to change my past thinking a little. In the past I have used the messageboard on my website for super point questions and gave students points if they had the correct answer. If I use a blog I will be giving them points on their comments to other students. Now having students comment on whether they agree with previous posts and why. I think that will work. I also plan on having students working together this year on creating podcasts and movies to review units for the state test. I will be doing this as part of the Mac grant. I think this will give my students another method of collaboration. I an anxious to start the year and see how all my ideas play out.
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I really like the idea of having the kids comment through the use of a blog. This is a great way for them to grab a hold of the Districts thinking on essential questions. This way the kids could not only challenge themselves but eachother too.
ReplyDeleteYou have so many great ideas and I know how overwhelming it all must feel. I think if we can all get together and share what we have attempted, we can learn a lot from one another.
ReplyDeleteNicole, I feel your pain with the spinning head! Take it one step at a time, and before you know it you'll be a total techno nerd (or geek, whatever the term is). It's a very exciting time of year and I think we all (who took this course) will benefit from it this year and for many years to come.
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