Hey Everyone, Happy Thanksgiving! I hope that you are with your loved ones and don't have to do too much with the Class this week! I know that I am headed home Friday to see Mom. Hope you all get to see your loved ones as well!
As for my game plan, I am making some progress. I am working on my collaboration in many different media and I am trying to get my students real world scenarios and problems to work with while they are learning. Those were my two main goals.
Let me address the questions brought up to us this week in the prompt. First, am I finding the resources that I need. For the most part, yes. I have found some great science teachers who are willing to do some collaboration this year! This was a big problem at first because the web filter at my school will not allow for video or hardly any pictures. I tried to get this loosened, but I was essentially told that fighting this would be a losing battle. So I had to go with an in-building collaboration and I found some teachers. This is invaluable! So I am finding what I need. The real world problems that I also want to start working on have been easy to find/design, so I am good on that front as well.
To the question of If I need to modify my action plan, I don't see any big modifications right now. My online collaboration is looking grim, but I do not want to take it out yet because I am holding on to hope that I will get some clearance on the web sometime this year. When that will be, I am not sure. I just can't give up on that yet.
We are also being asked, what we have learned so far. I have learned that setting these projects up take a TON of time. It will be great next year when I have a lot more of the ground work laid ahead of time, but the first time through is brutal. I have also learned that other teachers are excited about what I am trying to do. They are waiting to see how it works out. Hopefully it goes well and I can get them on board.
And when it comes to new questions. I have to say that I don't have any yet. All of the questions I have about time frames, logistics, student opinion, etc., I had from the beginning. I am sure that I will come up with some more soon, but I am honestly dealing with the same questions that I had from the start.
I am excited to hear how everyone else's GAME plans are going. See you on the blogs!
Tyler
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That's great that you are able to do some in school collaboration with other science classes. I also ran into some problem with the filters at our school. Any site that has anything to do with social networking is blocked preventing us from collaborating with students outside of our school for authentic writing activities. I will have to talk to the other language arts teachers and see if we could do some in-school collaboration. I think we may even be able to use our school website for blogging within the district.
ReplyDeleteTyler,
ReplyDeleteThat is wonderful you work with generous people who are willing to collaborate with you since you can not get on the web to do it. I also like that you are not deleting your online collaboration. Often times when our students get shut down, they stop...you are setting an excellent example by not giving up and continuing to find another avenue to try. Sounds like your GAME plan is full speed ahead other than that. Great job and hopefully something will work out with your online collaboration!
Tyler,
ReplyDeleteIt's great that you are getting people excited at your school about what you are doing and also about sharing and collaborating. I have found that people at my school are interested, but most aren't doing anything on their own...the wait and see attitude seems to be prevailing. I agree that it does take a LOT of time to set these projects up. The kids really seem to enjoy them though, and I hope they are learning something as well. Keekp up the good work! Donna