The GAME plan that I designed and followed throughout this course was in regards to designing my own classroom webpage and in order to help me carry out my GAME plan, I was chosen to attend training on design webpages. I was very excited about going to this training and went with an open mind at how I could begin designing one for my classroom. Well much to my surprise, this training was not for individual classroom webpages. It was for the school webpage and keeping it up to date. While this is still beneficial to parents, I was hoping to be able to begin implementing my own classroom webpage at the start of the new year. However, I did learn how to design our school’s webpage and upload pictures on it to keep parents up-to-date on what is happening in our school. One thing that I took from this experience is that even though I was not trained on how to design a classroom webpage, I can use other venues for deigning the page. I am hoping that once we get our school webpage completed with everything that is needed, that I can play around in the software and determine how I can make my own classroom webpage.
I do not reflect on my teaching near enough but through the use of the GAME plan, I am able to reflect on my lessons and discover what went well and what did not go well. I also think that having students use the GAME plan during group activities will help them to reflect on their processes as well. Also by using the GAME plan, it helps us to set clear and obtainable objectives that student’s can see and grade themselves.
I learned a great deal on ways that I can begin implementing technology into my teaching practice. Through this course and talking with my administration, I believe that we are going to purchase a mobile laptop cart that is wifi capable. My school is not equipped with wifi capabilities therefore making it difficult to bring laptops into the classroom to work. If we want to use the computers, we have to go to the computer lab. Sometimes when we visit the computer lab, we run into the problem of not every computer working therefore meaning more time that I have to take to fix the problem. This becomes very frustrating after a while. I hope that funds will allow us to purchase this mobile laptop cart because I believe that it can be very beneficial to both students and teachers.
When we return from winter break, we will be starting our unit on geometry. I hope to be able to incorporate digital storytelling in some form for this unit. As far as problem-based learning and networking/online collaboration goes, I am not quite sure of how I will be implementing these into my curriculum but I do know that I will be using problem-based learning in science. When we return from break, I am going to talk with my colleagues about ways that we can use problem-based learning in our science curriculum. I am excited about my journey to implementing technology into my classroom and hope that next school year, I will have the means to be able to begin allowing my students to use technology first thing.
