I just finished session 5 last night, but completely forgot about doing my reflection blog until I woke up startled in bed around 2am and realized I hadn't done it. Of course, I went back to sleep so only just now remembered to finish it.
Session 5 ended up being a tough two weeks! It was really hard trying to finish up my lesson plan with Tim Sanborn's students and to also try and reflect right away on how the lessons went. I'm always so self conscious about the fact that I'm not a "real" teacher, so it was tough to have to go through all of the rigamorale that goes along with teaching a lesson plan. One of the aspects that I thought I covered best was the assessment portion of the lessons. Tim shared with me his working knowledge of assessments and how to best use them with his students. I really picked his brain a lot about what many of my colleagues refer to as "edu-speak". He was able to better explain formative and summative assessments, which I will definitely need for next year, when I have my own class to teach.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
End of Session 4
I really enjoyed this session's practice with virtual world collaboration among peers. I'm finding myself enjoying and appreciating Google Docs the more that I use them. Eric took the initiative and signed us up for a trial version of Webspiration and while it was useful as a graphic organizer to plan out the research process it was honestly more of a pain than a benefit. I had to keep struggling with it to find the right section where we had saved our collaborations.
One aspect about this course that is still bothering me is how many of our portfolio entries have to do with actual teaching. Since I'm in the library and don't have the same classes and students each day it makes some of the entries very hard to complete. I don't have any lesson plans past the one I've created for Capstone I and I don't have the chance to work consistently with the same students on technology based tools that will help support and aid their creativity and innovation. Next fall I will have an actual class that I can consistently work with and I think that will help greatly for when I take the Capstone II.
One aspect about this course that is still bothering me is how many of our portfolio entries have to do with actual teaching. Since I'm in the library and don't have the same classes and students each day it makes some of the entries very hard to complete. I don't have any lesson plans past the one I've created for Capstone I and I don't have the chance to work consistently with the same students on technology based tools that will help support and aid their creativity and innovation. Next fall I will have an actual class that I can consistently work with and I think that will help greatly for when I take the Capstone II.
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