Week 8 Reflection

After learning more about the GAME plan, I realized it is a new way to plan all together! I like to organization that comes with the GAME plan, and I also like how it makes you think of 'things that could go wrong' or anything else you may forget!

As I continue to build my GAME plans, I reflect on my past ideas and try to integrate new ideas. My original plan was to have my students respond to the class blog by Wednesday and two classmates by Sunday. I still want to have that as a goal, but I want to do more! My new plan is to add digital story-telling to my blog. I want to show students how the possibilities are endless! I feel if I slowly show them more and more tools, they will appreciate technology even more... and they will also see the positive side of technology with positive exposures. My hopes are my students will come back to school someday and show me something new that I did not know!

So far, my students have really hooked on to my new technology style of teaching. At first they were a little uneasy, but after they got to the computer lab and realized how much they could do... their attitudes turned around! I think the most important thing was that I took it slow (at first I talked about my whole blog goal which overwhelmed them... but then I realized I needed to go one step at a time). Once my students built the confidence in themselves to create their own and upload their own pictures, they discovered the joy in blogging!

I am also very, very excited to incorporate my unit plan that I developed throughout this class. My number one love in life is to be creative! I always wanted to incorporate that to my lessons. With the help of this course, I now created 3 lessons that use technology, lessons from my subject, current events, and creativity! I can't wait!