Monitoring Your GAME Plan Progress
This week, thanks to other Walden’s student’s blog, I went to
different websites to check them out, and signed in to www.Epals.com and contacted two classes in
France. I want students to find a teenager of their age to be able to
communicate and exchange cultures. As of today, I am still waiting for people
to respond. I also created a bookmark with new websites that I can use for
project or as tutorials. I am trying to determine and categorize them to make
sure it is adapted to my students. I have not found a tutorial
yet that goes
along with what I am doing.
I have many ideas on how to incorporate technology and authentic
learning in my class, but I need to write a GAME plan to make the lesson
efficient. When I get an idea, I get excited and want to implement it right
away. Then the lesson ends up not being as engaging for everybody as I hoped.
As far as my second goal, introducing my work to the staff, I am
taking pictures of my students working in groups on a project integrating the
laptops. I am starting the PowerPoint presentation. I still have to talk to my
principal to get his authorization to talk to the staff.
As
I was sharing my project with the librarian, she asked me to send an article to
“The Heritage”, a school district newspaper to let the community know about the
project and to represent our school. This would be another way to promote my
program and the integration of new technology in the classroom.
Finally,
I am starting sharing my projects with my department, and they are interesting
on doing the project and asked me to teach them how to use the technology. This
week I have a meeting with my department chair and I will tell her about my new
project. I would like to set up a meeting with the other foreign language
teachers in the district where we all would share new technology integrated in
the classroom.
I
feel that once you start integrating technology in your lesson, it gets very
difficult to stop thinking of activities/projects I could be doing. I think I
am on the right track; I would like to find a colleague on the same page so we
can work together and share the workload.