First of all let me point out that CYOA also stands for Choose Your Own Adventure which happens to be one of my favorite book series of all times. I currently own signed copy's of the original works(Adventures of You, 1976) of Edward Packard and RA Montgomery. This book series if it had included math using dice would have been the perfect Across the Curriculum in classroom use books.
Anyways - I'm not completely clear on "Choose one of the reflective prompts provided in the Blog Learning Unit (Week 1) as the basis for your second reflective post this week." It would appear I need to reflect upon week #1 where we initially set up our blogs. I was unable to locate the "reflective prompts provided."
I will say that week one was a lot easier than this week. I wish the modules had specific dates on them it takes some time going back and forth between the modules and figuring out which week is which. I printed out a schedule and labeled them all but that requires access to the document I made(which I have misplace yet again). Not to mention that all 4 classes have different weeks with starts being on Tuesday, Wednesday and the other on Saturday. I understand that labeling the weeks makes perfect sense and it is on the student not the teacher to distinguish whats what. I just need to work out a better system that a print out put on a calender I pack around.
Week 1 did go well with starting the blog and was quite fun. I'm not sure I'll use it with my class since it is open to the net and I prefer blackboard or that new Moodle I'm still trying to find the time to research. I've downloaded the software and so far it looks like I can set it up without being online. That's great since my online time is limited to Internet access when I can get it.
All in all it has been a good experience and I've learned a lot about blogger. I prefer forums or if blogger was able to group us together more effectively. There is just to much information to go through and keep up with.
For our class in Blackboard, if you go to the Modules tab, click "Getting Started: Week One", click into "Blogs" and find page 14 you'll find the topics that I'm pretty sure Professor Keesee wants us to choose from. I know other people are choosing from page 13 as well, but I think that's more of a guideline of prompts we can use in our future classrooms and page 14 is what we should use. If you still can't find it, I have it saved on my computer and I could email it to you. Hope that helps.
ReplyDeleteOne of my goals for the course was to find a hefty amount of education-based websites. I found this thing called KidBlog.org. It allows teachers to safely use blogs in the classroom. It seems pretty nifty. I hope you make a post about Moodle when you figure it out a little more, I'd like to see your view on it.
And yea, I'm dying of information overload.
Thanks for the Location of the Self Assesment Questions. I wish these blogs had a memo area. I'm tempted to start my own webpage or something to keep track of everything.
ReplyDeleteVery Interesting the KidBlog.org. Did you add this to our Group Collaboration Educational Games? This could be classified as and Ed. Game.
I'm going to post the questions here to reference them later. Thanks Again!
Reflection Questions-
Choose one of the tasks assigned this week. What did you learn? How did you learn it? What challenges did you overcome? How did you overcome them? How could you use what you learned either with the task or from how you solved the problem in your classroom?
What was the most positive thing that happened to you this week related to this course? What can you learn from this? Why was it a positive experience?
What was the most difficult? What can you learn from this? What made the experience so difficult?
Which of your goals for this course did you accomplish this week? Which are still not accomplished? Do any goals need to be revised? How and why?
How does what you learned this week relate to your career plans?
What do you now know? What do you still want to know? What have you learned?
How is this blog helping you understand your course work?
Choose one of the NETS for students or for teachers and relate it to what you are learning in this course or how you could implement it in your classroom.
What are some problem-solving techniques you learned this week? How did you learn them?
What are my expectations for this course? How is this course the same or different from my previous education courses? What are the influences—both positive and negative—on learning in this course?
How can/did I make the maximum use of the course assignments and resources this week?
What are some suggestions for different ways of presenting the information for this course?
What are some examples of best practices in integrating technology into teaching and learning that I found this week? How can I use these ideas in my classroom?
What would the ideal technology-supported classroom look like? Why?
What are examples of technology integration that you have observed or participated in this week—either personally or with your children? What was the objective of using the technology? What went well? What could have been improved? How could the lesson have been revised for next time?
What did you enjoy most/least about getting to know your group members? How much do you feel you can rely on your group members to complete the required task(s)? How do you make sure that group members feel supported, encouraged, and appreciated for their work? What do you do if another person’s ideas are unclear? Explain your answers.