The first goal of my GAME plan is to collaborate with other high school health and Physical educators in order to share lessons that incorporate technology. As it may be difficult to ensure participation, I must find a way to carry out this goal. My first inclination would be to begin with an email to all the teachers to bring up the idea of sharing lessons across the county in hopes to spark interest. I will also mention this idea to our supervisor so that they can maybe dedicate a session during one of our in-services to lesson sharing. I have already begun to reach out to a few teachers, and they would be interested in sharing, they just admit that they get lazy and or forget that they can post to our Sharepoint portal. It appears that there are many teachers who already have lessons to share, but admit that they are lackadaisical when it comes to simply hitting “submit” on sharepoint. Others have expressed that they do not have access to many technology tools so collecting lessons would not be helpful to them. I plan to facilitate a meeting at the end of the school year, when things calm down, to discuss this plan for next year. I would like to offer up a few dates over the summer to see if a group would be interested in meeting to create different lessons. At this meeting, we could upload them to Sharepoint right there and then so that they do not need remember later. Accountability is my next feat. How will I get teachers to participate year-round? With this part of my goal, I need to be a squeaky wheel and send friendly reminders out on a bi-monthly basis or maybe organize a lunch to make it also a social event.
For my second goal of making sure that my students are responsible when utilizing technology tools, I will need to my administration as a resource to explore consequences of improper usage. I would also like to sit down with our building tech to review and explore the usage settings that can be activated on a blog or wiki site. This will help prevent students from going places and posting things that can result in negative consequences. I will also need to create a PowerPoint with scenarios that exhibit both responsible and irresponsible behaviors on the internet and with other tools. I have no problems creating PowerPoint presentations so this will be the easiest part of carrying out my goal. I will also need to access our school wiki site to create a classroom blog. I would like to create a screencast to supplement my instruction on how to use a wiki site. From there, students will have to create user-names to be able to track posts in the future.
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Charlene,
ReplyDeleteThe creation of a screencast to facilitate your wiki instruction for students is a grand idea. This mode of tutoring would appeal to both visual and auditory learners, reinforcing acceptable wiki use. Jing is great screencast software that is free and simple to download and use on a Mac or Windows computer (Richardson, 2009). For Jing uses, an overview, or download go to jingproject.com (Richardson, 2009).
Reference:
Richardson, W. (2009). Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful Web tools for classrooms (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Casi,
ReplyDeleteThank you. I actually had a chance to use Jing during an assignment in my last course with Professor Lebeau. I was very intrigued by it. I actually went ahead and created tutorials for my health classes the following week. The students really got alot out of them as well.
Charlene
Jeff F to Charlene
ReplyDeleteThe Game Plan -
You have put together a number of strategies and ideas to accomplish your goals. Collaborating is one the most important factors to have colleagues interested in carrying out your GAME plan. Getting all colleagues involved and proactive is always challenging. Another idea I would suggest is to have data to present to your colleagues of the significant benefits of the use of technology and its key factors it has on improving and enhancing student learning.
Your second goal is a well thought out plan to model to your students the proper use of technology. I like the Power Point presentation of the proper use of blogs and wiki sites, because it scaffolds instruction to support student learning. Most importantly, I like the supplement of screen cast. Screen cast serves as a tutorial to help students remember how to perform certain tasks in using wikis. Great idea!
Above all, it seems like your two goals are another step to carrying out your GAME plan. Keep up the great work and ideas to fulfill your goals.
Jeff