Monday, February 8, 2016

Student Presentation Tools Fall 2015

I really liked this webinar and found that while I am a Power Point user Google Slides was pretty easy to use.  We used it for our presentation for this class and found it very user friendly.. Where as Prezi was a little more difficult to use.  I also enjoyed creating avitatrs with my students.

Use of Technology for Learning Dimension Webinar

Before this webinar I had never really thought about grading my students learning on a laptop or  having them "grade" or "gage" their learning while working on a laptop.  If students become more aware of their laptops and the skills they need to use them they will become more proficient with the use of them.

Google Forms and Sheets

While this  webinar was informative I found it time consuming.  At this point in my "learning" curve of 21st Century learning this will be the piece of information that I have to dive into with more detail when I have time to really create a survey, assessment or informational piece.

Assessment in the 21st Century Classroom

This webinar was really helped my assess my assessments.  I really liked the comic strip that had the different animals and said ok now as our assessment you are all going to climb that tree.  That really helped my evaluate my assessments. I have such a diverse class, with Tier II and Tier III kiddos.  How they learn and process is very different for a Tier I student. While l alsways thought I was assessing differently but in reality they were getting the same assessments.

Google Search

This was by far my favorite webinar! As an avid Google user, I don't like it when my daughters are told not to use Google.  I have shared many of tips and ins and outs of this webinar with them. Even having my HS daughter watch the webinar. The world of Google is much more than what people think.

LiveBinders

This webinar was very informative. I had heard about LiveBinders from other people but had never used it. I was overwhelmed  in a good way with this webinar.  I have shared it with my team. We have used information from it for some Science units as well as Social Studies.

Friday, February 5, 2016

Artifact #3 Self-Regulation Dimension Webinar


After watching the Real-World Problem-Solving and Innovation Dimension Webinar I had the students construct an area model of a house. They were to use the dimensions I gave them to construct two different rooms equaling an AREA of  88 sq. units.  Students were then asked to construct a room with the product of 88 using different numbers.  Students were Self Regulating while working on this task. They were asked to break down a task and make it into a different problem. Students were monitoring their work through out this process.