Revise, Review, Rewind

This week we actually worked on posting in the blogs created on Schoology. I was so excited, after several mis-steps, thinking I had gone over the material, everyone understood and we are ready to launch. The hardest part for me was being so hands off, it is not in my nature to be this way! I let the students discover, make mistakes and take the lead in this process. I would answer questions through our online messaging system, I really wanted this to be a learning process for them, one that was problem based and they could build on. The research took longer than I anticipated, and that put us a day behind, then the kids had a difficult time figuring out how to post, even though this had been gone over a zillion time, at least to me. After messaging, then revising y online instructions, it started coming together. Four days for what I scheduled one and a half days.....oh well, a learning experience and one I need to do further reflection for. The overall product was not what I was expecting and at this point I am debating from starting from square one, or having them revise...we are going to have a discussion tomorrow, so we will see. Another step in the right direction, just much slower than anticipated!