Final Day

We have received a lot of good information today! Really enjoyed Dr. Bracey's and Dr. Latham's presentation on small businesses! Thank you for the resources!

Day 20!!!

Day 20!! Our last day was spent presenting our lesson plans and e-portfolios . Hard to believe our 20 days are done. Thank you to all our instructors! Thank you for your patience. I am looking forward to incorporating some of the technology I have learned into my classroom.  There will certainly be a learning curve for all involved.  Until Oct. 3rd!

Day 19: Lesson Plans, Art, BYOD Letter

Day 19 was spent working on lesson plans for the majority of the day.  Have finally submitted my lesson plan.  Art project has also been completed.  Tomorrow will be presentation day and then summer will begin!

Day 17: Digital Story Telling, Lesson Planning, Art, Skyping

We began our day finishing up our Flat Stanley digital story writing.  This is one more project completed!! Yay!!

After lunch I cut the glass for my art project so am one step closer to finishing this project.

Lesson planning was next and I am very close to finishing it.  Will be glad to learn what exactly it is we will be doing with this come Friday.

We ended our day with another Skyping session to Taiwan.  What a delightful lady she was! She seemed to be more than happy to talk to us! Really enjoyed listening to her.

Day 16: BYOD Letters, Digital Story Writing, Lesson Plans

We started our day working on our letters to our districts in support of BYOD.  Though our district does not have a policy in place for BYOD I do not think that I would be a problem at our school as long as permission was given beforehand from our principal.

We then began work on our digital story writing.  We chose several different locations on campus to take Flat Stanley and and narrate short video clips.

Lesson planning and art were switched today.  Glad that we were able to get started on our lesson plan.  Ready to get that done as I do not like to have things hanging over my head that need to be done.

Day 15: Federal Reserve, Prezi

We began our day with Mrs. Bennett from the Federal Reserve.  This was a very interesting presentation with a lot of resources available to us to use in our classroom.  I had actually been a part of one of her sessions a couple of years ago but still enjoyed hearing her again today.

We then learned about creating PREZI presentations.  I am interested in using this in my classroom but may be a bit too complicated.  I do think that the students would be more engaged with PREZI presentations than with regular PowerPoints.

We ended our day with Dr. Beriswill and digital storytelling.  Step by step but do not thinkI would be able to do this again by myself.  We will see how it goes Monday.

Day 13: WebQuests, Ipad, Creating a Newspaper

We began our day finishing our Webquest.  Our group created a Webquest about major  battles of the Civil War.

We then had a session on Ipads and Ipad apps.  This was VERY helpful.  Dr. Lee gave us different apps that I was not aware of that I hope to be able to use.  I am also going to look into purchasing an Apple TV for my classroom so that I can at least make better use of my Ipad and hopefully more use of our school's Ipad lab.

We of course continue to work on our art project and I continue to plod along slowly but surely.

We ended our day with Dr. Lee and creating a newspaper.  Another day of technology overload!!