Sunday, December 5, 2010
The next step...
This past week I saw so much progress, both in the students adapting to the Schoology account as well as the peer editing group. In evaluating each, I have found that I need to model the Schoology daily, and make it a part of the lesson. I also have started posting helpful hints, such as word list to use, in order to get some of the reluctant users motivation to check in daily as well. In the peer editing group, we are working on key components, such as thesis, topic sentences, grabbers, and giving the students parts to check. This way, they have these key items highlighted and labeled beforehand, it gives then a chance to look at it beforehand, I found the 30- to 40 minutes to be not enough time and I am working on ways to get the most done. This week we will begin the online editing and posting essays, wish me luck!
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I must say that I admire your progress. Admittedly, I am even a little jealous. I have not found the time to approach anyone about beginning my tech-based game plan! This semester technology is not so readily available as it was last year. NONE of my classrooms have Smartboards. And my students do not have access to laptops in school, so it makes it so much harder to teach a technology-based lesson where students do research or create.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! and wish me luck....
Diane
ReplyDeleteWow, you are at a disadvantage for sure. I now feel lucky! Good Luck, with the budget cuts who knows what the future holds for any of us.
Hi Edie,
ReplyDeleteWhen you can identify some progress in your students’ effort to embrace that which you have instructed them to, this certainly will boost your confidence to keep motivating them. As teachers who are allowing our students to expand their learning by using technology tools, we will have to commit our time and effort to respond to all our students. As we self-evaluate, we might need to trade in collaborating with friends on Facebook as devote more time to taking a vested interest in our students’ academic progress. I wish you best as you forge ahead to edit students’ essays. Before you begin, you might want to have you rubric and student records on hand so that you can quickly zoom in on what is expected of each student and then make brief comments. Please try to avoid burnout by giving yourself adequate time to correct scripts fairly under the right conditions. By the way, what is ‘grabbers’? I would like as much insight from different colleagues about the teaching styles they use. Keep blogging about the directions the GAME Plan is leading you and your students to achieve.
K. Kerr