What have you learned so far that you can apply in your instructional practice?
Thus far I have learned that I need to purchase new software in order to view videos for my discovery cart in physical education. I have access to a flip camera and have video taped students demonstrating skills for basketball, badminton, and football. The next step is putting these clips into powerpoints. The software I mention previously is required to do this.
What goals are you still working toward?
I received helpful feedback from HanNa in regards to my second goal. Before meeting with my administrators and instructional facilitator, I plan to have some ideas for consequences to inappropriate internet usage. I am working up a list of consequences that I feel are fair for certain offenses. I am also still working towards creating a screen capture that will show students how to navigate through a website to determine if it is a valid source.
Based on the NETS-T, what new learning goals will you set for yourself?
At this time, I am working on a bunch of things as the end of the school year approaches. We have had teachers retire mid-year and I have recently become our department chairperson. Quite honestly, I have been swamped and have not set any new learning goals as I am trying to clear my current plate.
If you are not ready to set new learning goals, how will you extend what you have learned so far?
In order to extend my knowledge about social-networking, I am going to set up a wiki for all health and physical educators in our county. This way teachers have another outlet to share lessons or express concerns about their lessons. By providing another avenue for communication, I feel that I am increasing the opportunity for participation and collaboration.
What learning approaches will you try next time to improve your learning?
As I am gaining knowledge about many different technology tools throughout this course, I still have roadblocks and hesitation about incorporating wikis and utilizing voice threads. I really enjoyed creating voicethread but I have yet to use them for my classes. I want to try to step out of my comfort zone a bit more so that next year, I will have the kinks out and will be less likely to run into problems.
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Charlene,
ReplyDeleteWow, you have a lot of new technology tools to use for your PE lessons! How exciting! It sounds like you have taken big strides in setting up your discovery cart and following through on creating video and PowerPoint presentations to better help your students understand the skills of basketball, badminton, and football. I am sure that as you are taping your students, they are also learning the correct ways to play those sports as they want to correctly model and perform for your video recordings.
I also feel that your idea of creating a wiki page for the health and PE educators in your county is a big step towards meeting your goals. You are truly trying to get teacher collaboration on this goal. I think that any way to help get the educators involved, engaged, and motivated to assist in accomplishing your goal is worth trying. You want all participants to feel comfortable sharing and giving them the flexibility to do it around their schedule. Allowing multiple ways to give their input will always help! I think that using a blog may also be helpful or placing a page on your wiki for educators to reflect or to share personal stories or thoughts may also be a good idea to support and connect with one another.
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"I am working up a list of consequences that I feel are fair for certain offenses."
ReplyDeleteWhether it is high school, elementary, or even college, teachers need to prepare for the consequences of improper use of the internet. Failing to do so opens up liability issues and can really disrupt the learning process. For us teachers who are beginning to really integrate technology it is neccessary we take the leading role in educating our students and colleagues of how best to prevent issues involving improper use. I admire your intentions and plan on doing something similar in my own classroom.
Brandon
Charlene,
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of using a wiki to gather ideas and strategies from other teachers that are within your content area. we have data teams within our different content areas at our schools and that might be a great idea to use for comparing our strategies. We have many other schools in our local area that could join in like what you are thinking of doing in your area.
I also like how you talk about emphasizing the liability of internet usage in the school and communicating with administration first. Students need to understand that there are real consequences for real actions that they take. Good ideas.
Jeremy