This week, I have been looking over my GAME plan and have thought about how I can continue to progress toward the goals in my GAME plan. I am finding some good resources that I need for my first and second goals, even though some of the resources I need will not be available until the beginning of the school year. So far, I have not found that I need to modify my action plan. I have learned that there is a lot of work in the action part of my GAME plan and finding resources is not easy. Still, I have not had any new questions arise. Here are the goals I have been working on:
1. 1(B) engaging students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
2. 2(C) promoting student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
Because most of the action in my GAME plan will start at the beginning of the year when I have my students in class, I haven’t been able to do a whole lot yet, but I have decided that I will talk to my principal about getting an interactive whiteboard at the beginning of the year. For my first goal, in order to help my students explore real-world issues, I have decided that these websites will work well with the content I teach:
www.maps.google.com
http://www.inkpot.com/news/
http://www.live-radio.net/european.shtml
www.youtube.com
www.teachertube.com
**The program Google Earth was recently installed on my school computer, which will be of use, too.
For my second goal, I would also like to add blogging and voicethreads to my list of ways students can reflect, using collaborative tools. I will be setting up these accounts at the beginning of the year. I have learned last week that blogging is a good way to have students reflect to a prompt, and then they can comment on their peers’ reflections as well. Voicethread will work in this same manner when doing performance tasks.
I will see you all next week as I continue the GAME plan!!
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Hola Marie,
ReplyDeleteDid you know that voicethread costs money if you want to create more than 3 voicethreads? I found a great website that allows students to produce artifacts - www.scratch.com which may be useful for you to explore this summer. I also had a problem blogging with students last year due to the lack of technology that most of my students have at home and not enough time in the computer lab.I had to make these assignments extra credit. Good luck getting a whiteboard from your prinicpal, my principal wont call me back or email me.
Marie,
ReplyDeleteHave you thought about trying to incorporate ePals (http://www.epals.com/) into your curriculum? I think it was in our last course that we read an article about the benefits of using the international, collaborative components of the website. This learning tool could be a great way to have your students interact with students in Spanish classes across the U.S. and/or native Spanish speakers, internationally. Would your school have the resources to support the use of ePals (e.g. daily/weekly access to computers)?
Have you utilized the Google translation with your classes? Do you think that that it has any practical applications for your students? You could have the students practice translating simple phrases and then have them check their own work by using Google translator. You might even find it useful to have the students read different webpages in Spanish and then try to explain what it is that they read in English. As Chapter 6 of our textbook explained, authentic-assessment helps students hook into what they are learning, as well as, learn 21st century skills to apply following graduation. Would any of these web-based tools work in your classroom?
Thank you,
Courtney Clausen