Week 8

I was unable to take the pretest- program won’t allow it. A little frustrating because I was on fire there for a bit, working hard and pushing ahead. Have emailed for help. If I don’t hear from anyone I’ll just go to the meeting on Tuesday and take it there. In the 21st Century Skills found a project that interested me – internet safety. A teacher set up an account on Ning to teach her students how to use social networking responsibly. It’s really something all our students need to know. Atomic Learning went through the process step by step. How to open a Ling account, set up (what do students have access to, how not to allow student comments to be published until the teacher has reviewed them). In order to carry this out effectively you would need to collaborate with other teachers and share responsibility of the account. This would be fairly time consuming and difficult if one person tried to attempt it alone. Every student would need an email account and comments would need to reviewed and posted quickly so that students wouldn’t lose interest. Would Ning or any other social network be available (not blocked) at school. All the resources that one would need to carry out this project were available on Atomic Learning.

With one click of the same project different subject button I learned how to adapt this project to other subjects – an interdisciplinary drug abuse project was one of the suggestions. This would be great during Drug Awareness Week (even a blog would work I think).

In the tech integration projects I worked my way through a Publisher project. I will definitely use this in the library because we need to make bookmarks and pamphlets on a regular basis. Definitely learned some short cuts, and it’s good to know that if I need a refresher course its there for me. There was also a project using PowerPoint to create a choose a path story that intrigued me. Believe there’s a way that I can adapt it and use it for games and lessons in the library.