For this week's post I wanted to update you guys again as to my progress with my GAME Plan. Just a reminder that my goals for my GAME Plan are focused on doing more professional development for my fellow staff mates and to find new technologies to use in my classroom. I have four questions that I will use to updates you.
Are you finding the information and resources you need?
For my professional development goal I have tons of stuff that I want to share with my colleagues. I wish I had more formal opportunities to share them because then I feel I could make a big difference. As for finding new technologies for my classroom I have been experimenting with a few new ones but I have not found one I want to use for sure yet.
Do you need to modify your action plan?
I think my action plan is going well right now so I don't want to tweak it right now.
What have you learned so far?
This last week I learned that I can do more professional development at my school one on one. A secretary was struggling with how to communicate some weekly events with the other staff. I then spent the next 30 mins showing her how to use her Google Calendar better and how to create events to send out. She was so happy with what I had to share that I want to find new opportunities to do one on one trainings.
What new questions have arisen?
One question I have for all of you to help me out with is any technologies you have learned about that are good to use for education. I know most of my readers are in education so any suggestions would be great. Thanks!
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Hi, Luke,
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like your GAME plan is going very well. I am so excited for you getting the opportunity to share some technology information with your secretary. That is awesome. The main type of technology I use with my students is Power Point. I would love to try blogging with them, but I haven't started it, yet. I like Power Point because it is a good beginning for the students and it can be modified for the higher level ones. Sorry I don't have anything more for you. I am glad your GAME plan is going so well for you. I hope that you can find other opportunities to do one on one trainings with your colleagues.
Tami
Hi Luke,
ReplyDeleteHave your students been using google apps yet in the classroom? You sound like you are knowledgeable, being able to show other staff, so you should think to include it in your classroom more.
Tami and Danielle,
ReplyDeleteI too use PowerPoint a far amount in my classes. Some classes I use it a lot like my speech class but others I don't use it at all and prefer to use higher level technologies.
My students have not startedd using Google Apps yet. We have accounts made for all of them but we need permission from all the parents before we had hand them out to the kids. Unfortunately the admin is not in a rush on this so it is taking a long time to get this done.
Luke
Luke,
ReplyDeleteI would love to hear more about these Google Apps you are talking about. There may be some that my higher level students could use. Sorry to hear that your admin is dragging its feet. It seems like they are always wanting us to try new things but then they drag their feet when we need them to give us the okay. Good luck to you on that. Hope it comes soon.
Tami
Luke,
ReplyDeleteI love the Google calendar. This can also be used in smaller circles, for instance, trying to create a scope and sequence for a particular subject area for a group of teachers.