Continuing with the GAME plan framed by Cennamo, Ross, and Ertmer (2009). I am now monitoring my progress to help me reach my goals. My goals are to promoting student reflection using collaborative tools and to design relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools (ISTE, 2008). I had decided to do this by learning how to podcast and create wikis.
Last week I listed and defined all of the different resources I would use to accomplish this goal. This week I monitored my progress towards achieving my goals. First I will have to say that getting teachers to come into school during summer is nearly impossible even when they are your friends. For a few hours with week I meet with my technology director and a tech from our technology support. The tech was great the only problem was is that I did not speak the same language as he did. I took some time but I did start to understand the terminology that he was using and that helped a great deal. I have found and used plenty of tutorials that I found on Google. I am glad that I did this before meeting the tech at the school otherwise I would have been lost. The one resource that I will have trouble accessing will be the students. With no school there is little chance to have students experiment and share what they discover.
As of this minute I have not seen the need to modify my GAME plan. Other than not having students to use as resources I have had little difficulty. What I have learned so far working on the my GAME plan is that learning difficult material is far easier when you have a clear plan in front of you. I may do this for students every day but never have I done it for myself. The other part I have learned from working on my GAME plan is that I need to learn computer terminology in order to understand the more advanced skills needed for technologies like wikis and podcasts. They are simple enough to make and produce but are not utilizing their full potential as a learning tool. To creating more complex wikis and podcasts there is a great deal more I need to learn.
Questions?! Well there are a ton of questions that have arisen from working on my two goals. I want to know how to have an updated podcast instantly upload to an ipod? Can I tell who has downloaded a podcast? What websites allow free hosting of podcasts that can be used in a school? After a wiki has been used how can you remove all posts and pages without them remaining in the wikis history? Is there a solution to the problem of two or more people editing a wiki page at one time? These are just some of the many questions that have come up in the time I have been working on my GAME Plan. Hope you are all having as much fun as I am, now if I can only get my school to unblock wikis and lift the ban on ipods!
Kevin Kleespies
ISTE, Initials. (2008). The Iste national educational technology standards (nets•t) and performance indicators for teachers. Retrieved from iste@iste.org, www.iste.org.
Cennamo, K., Ross, J. & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology Integration for Meaningful Classroom Use: A Standards-Based Approach. (Laureate Education, Inc., Custom ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
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ReplyDeleteYou are doing an excellent job with monitoring your action plan for reaching your goal. I must say that has I have practiced my skills with technology I do find it easier to manipulate the tools but challenging it is to have all the answers for students questions. One of the easiest podcast that I have experienced in Ipadio.com. It is free and is as simple as making a phone call and recoding your information, saving it to a selected locations and then embed it into your desired location. May your experiences with technology bring more ease and smoothness. Let's keep in mind what Prensky (2001) expressed about our Digital Native students, that students are more willing to learning and not quit if their teachers are not instructing straight from the textbooks, all the time.
Reference:
Prensky, M. (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants. On the Horizon, 9(5).
Fayette :-)
I agree with Fayette....you seem to have your steps in place. I think that no matter how good a friend you have they will not stop their summers to come in and work with you in school. I have tried that and have miserably failed. I think once they see how into this you are and how much it affects the student learning they will start to ask questions and be more interested in wanting to know more.
ReplyDeleteYou made the comment of having the plan makes it so much easier. I cannot tell you how after working on mine I see how I should go about doing the same thing with other projects that I do. The GAME Plan idea really stood out for me when I began this course since I saw the potential of it with what I do (Cennamo, Ross, & Ertmer, 2009). I wish that there was some type of study sheet or guide that could go with it so that it might be an easier sell to my teachers. If it seems like a lot of work they will choose not to do it.
I wish that I could help you with your questions. I too find them ones that would be important to find answers to. If I come across any answers I will sure to let you know.
Good luck. You have a great start and I know that you will see good results!
Marilyn Goodrich
K-12 Ed. Con.
Cennamo, K., Ross, J., & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach. (Laureate Education, Inc., Custom ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
Thank you for your comments. Fay thank your for the site I will check it out this weekend. I agree with you about the game plan process. As someone who is more random than anything else, laying out a game plan for myself to learn has shown me a great deal and I see that you feel the same way about what game plan do for learning.
ReplyDeleteKevin Kleespies
Will you be sharing the plan process with your teachers when they come back for the fall? Do you all have to create your own personal goals for your district? Many teachers here do that is why I ask. It might be a good idea to share that plan process with them to make them aware of how much easier it makes goal setting.
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Marilyn Goodrich
K-12 Ed. Con.