The was a wonderful class! I wish all teachers were required to take this course! My ahhhhh mainly came from looking at other students work! Many of the students in this class are already tech savy and completed great projects! I am very proud to say that igoogle is now my homepage and I love it!!!!! I feel so organized when I wake up to my igoogle and a great cup of coffee! I also love my delicious account and use it everyday which is another great tool to help with organization and it will be a great tool to share with my students. One of the most exciting skills I learned from this class was how to blog with students in the classroom and I look forward to having some real history discussions. I also hope to create eportfolios with my students and make eportfolios a priority for myself and with students. All of the workshops that I have attended and presentations that I have given and so much more will now be put on an eportfolio along with my resume. That is the best ahhh moment next to igoogle! Concept maps was my absolute favorite project!!! Not because it was so easy and fun but because adding it to my eportfolio the second time using words from my philosophy was my ahhhh moment. It reminded me of all the reasons I love education and being an educator. I am not even going to mention my podcast!
Thank you so much Dr. Wickersham for a great class!
Zearlene Roberts :)
Friday, March 11, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Week 7 Reflection
As a history teacher I loved looking at the students faces when they really enjoyed the class and there is nothing better than hearing a student say “this is the best class ever!” When you get to study culture from other places students can relate if they can hear the music or watch dancing. One of the activities I had my students do was create a concept map. Students would define their words and create a concept map in one of the four websites introduced in our etec class. I wanted to start out with a fun and simple activity to motivate the students and I might add I enjoyed doing this assignment myself. I could do the concept map but my podcast was a total disaster! LOL!
Next I had my students go to Google Images to locate places on a map and follow up with analyzing and evaluating images of the culture from these places. I picked this assignment because students love to look at pictures and the images here are endless. I asked my students to compare and contrast their culture to the culture in Africa.
On day three I had my students go to the computer lab to watch and listen to YouTube videos that I had viewed and selected for students. These videos are African music videos and African dance videos. Students love watching videos and at this age I know they are thinking wow I really like that song or I really am not crazy about that song. I also know from watching the dancing videos students will notice some definite similarities.
BLOG TIME!!!!!
I created a class blog for students to reflect on their African Culture experience. I listed specific things I wanted to see in their reflections for a grade and encouraged creativity and images. I picked this activity because when I was teaching in the classroom blogging was something I always wanted to do and I never made it happen. I really think blogging is so cool.
I also reminded my students that online tutor was available to help with quizzes and exams. I love the online textbook websites for students. Not all of them are great but the two textbooks that I used had great sites for students to play games or quiz.
As I reflect on my own lesson plan the one thing I would do different is have students create an eportfolio at the beginning of the year and build on it. I had students view images and watch videos and these activities would be perfect for a portfolio.
Thank you so much,Zearlene :)
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