Week 5 and still going...

Hey everybody, I am getting a little behind on all of the stuff for this class! I hope that everyone else is coping better than I am!

As I look at my GAME plan, I am pretty happy about everything that is going on. Again, my two goals are to work on my collaboration in many different media and to try to get my students real world scenarios and problems to work with while they are learning. I have really nailed one of my goals out of the park.

How effective were your actions in helping you meet your goals? I have done one assignment for my students where they have written a paper on a real world application and they have used and infused all different types of technology! I have started looking through these papers, (I have a lot of grading to do) and they look spectacular. So, my actions have been really effective in meeting my second goal.

What have you learned so far that you can apply in your instructional practice? I have learned a lot about making real world assignment. These projects and problems are all over the place and they are not as hard to find as I thought. Many tech sites have problems that their products/software are great at solving. I just need to look around a little more and I can use them to teach or assess!

What do you still have to learn? What new questions have arisen? I still have to learn about collaborating with my colleagues. I thought that I found some great teachers to collaborate with, but some of my connections have fallen through. I still have some good leads, but timing is going to make this very hard. I am worried that I am going to lose all of my potential teammates as the year gets even busier. My new question is, where do you find collaboration partners?

How will you adjust your plan to fit your current needs? I am going to lower amount of out-of-classroom collaboration and just focus on the student to student in-classroom collaboration. I am going to use the resources that I have in my control and stop looking elsewhere. I think that it is more beneficial to use in-house collaboration 3 or 4 times a year rather than fight to get one out-of-classroom session. So, I am going to get some kind of collaboration in any way I can!

Hope your plans are going well!

Tyler