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.

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.

Artifact #2 and Webinar of Knowledge Construction

As our AREA unit continued we created AREA and Perimeter name tags.  The students created their context using Knowledge Construction. They were constructing knowledge of AREA and transferring into a linguistic piece. This webinar help to guide my reading and writing with in lessons.  That they should be intertwined. Applying knowledge from one content area into the other is what makes for an interdisciplinary activity.

Reflection artifact 1 and Collaboration Dimension Webinar

Reflection and Artifact 1
As I reflect on this class and my Webinars, I realize that while I had my students collaborate before I have taken that collaboration to another level. Their communication and level of understanding what their partner is asking has increased, They make decisions together and use each other or their group or partner more as a team now. This is just one picture of my students working in a partnership being quite collaborative.

Reflection on Learning Team

My Learning team consisted of Tracey Tresely  who teaches at Palmer ES r and Chris Coleman who teaches at Anderson ES. Since we were all working on AREA at the same we decided to do our project on AREA.  Tracy and Chris's schools math programs are currently Engaged New York while my school is doing Georgia Math. Since I had an AREA lesson with me we decided to have our project be on that lesson. It is called OOPS, I'm Decomposing, the content standards that it is aligned to is 3.MD.7 -Relate AREA to the operation of multiplication and addition using the distributive property.

As a team we decided to focus our learning content on Collaboration and Knowledge of Construction. During  the implementation of this I saw my students making decisions together, using newly acquired academic language (area, multiplication, array), as well as planning their outcomes.
The lesson started off with students getting a cm paper, they had to create an area of 11x8, they were then asked to make the AREA a different way using different numbers to create the total of 88. This is where the Knowledge of Construction came into play, students were required to construct a new problem with in the problem they already had.   I was really impressed with their knowledge, determination and collaboration on how to accomplish this task. Of course there were the groups that struggled with the math but they were definitely collaborating.

I enjoyed collaborating with Tracey and Chris, It made the evaluation process easier as we could look at each others students work with a different perspective.