Its nearly Friday and time for my first week's Game Plan reflection. Happy with my goals? Yes, and excited as well to bring 21st century techniques to my 21st century learners.
I realize that, in order to improve the quality of my teaching through technology tools, I will need support and the shared expertise of my colleagues and peers. For example, my goal to implement the use of student blogging as a learning and reflecting tool has required me to seek out training in the discussion features on Blackboard Academy - the web page program our school district subscribes to. I have found a colleague in the Social studies department of our high school who has used student discussion boards for two years now and she is guiding me through the steps to moderate student postings. I'm slow at manipulating the program, but getting better. I'll certainly appreciate the mentoring of any colleagues out there using this feature on Blackboard Academy.
I have also run into challenges implementing my students' cell phone use for class projects. Many do not know how to upload photos they've take with their own camera/cell phone. I am having to learn the features of many different phones to guide them. I'll be searching for additional information online about two different phone models in order to assist students unless I can find one program online to coordinate this featue for the students. I am open to suggestions...
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I have heard of Blackboard, but I'm not sure what it is exactly. What other blog sites do you use? All of the sites are blocked by my district. Is Blackboard a monitored blog site to use in schools?
ReplyDeleteMark,
ReplyDeleteCheckout Blackboard Academy - google it online - its a suite of online software for teachers
Hi Christine, I came out of my group being the artist that I am and read your blog. Fantastic and courageous to pursue this cell phone use. I had discussed this all with students last school year but they would have to have their cords with them. I'm sure there is at least one universal cord or something available. I would love to know if you find out. I'm Victoria Perez from group 2.
ReplyDeleteVictoria,
ReplyDeleteFor atleast a third of the students they can email their photos directly from their cell phones to my email address or their own and then paste into any document they are creating. For another third, they asked their peer to snap a photo for them and email it to them so they could use it. The last third did not even attempt it -- these are the holdouts I have to work on.