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Monday, March 15, 2010

Team Work which I am proud of:
I am most impressed with my new group members and how efficiently and effectively they work together; and how they have included me in the assignments. My group members have been especially understanding and helpful this week! Thank you!
Challenges:
Technology is awesome...BUT can be so confusing with all the new tools we are expected to use. Still having a problem with tagging but I'm sure with the help of my group I'll be an expert by the end of the course.
Technology and strategies:
Media Literacy is a new genere of technology that I hadn't considered as an instructional tool. I've taught language arts in prior years and within that course have used propaganda as an instructional strategies but after learning about media literacy I realize the increased importance using media literacy inthe classroom. There are so many more instances where media literacy can be a catalysts in the classroom.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Lesson 4 Team Blog Reflections

  • Team work of which I am proud.
    • Having such a flexible and dedicated group has made this semester a great one!
    • The flexibility of the group has made it very easy to organize team assignments. Each one of us are responsible for finishing up each one of our assignments.
    • Checking in at our weekly meetings has helped to keep me focused and on task
  • Team work which I found exceptionally challenging.
    • Still having a problem with using chat on etherpad, I hate it when technology heeds me from communicating effectively.
    • Technology seems to be on everyone's bad side during this lesson. From communication to uploading images. It has been a challenge, but in the end it looks like it came out ok. I thought the Lesson 4 content development was a little challenging for me because I was a little confused with the contents of the assignment.
    • It feels like all of the assignments landed at the same time. We transitioned from the paper to or unit moderation to the presentation.
  • Reflections on technology and instructional strategies that you and your team learned from this lesson.
    • It was interesting to look at the discussions from the point of a moderator.
    • Moderating was a bit of a challenge for me because I am usually one who sits in a corner or at the back of the room and listen (in a traditional classroom setting). Moderating gave me a chance to ask the questions and guide the discussion, something I usually don't do.
    • ditto on the moderation
  • Anything your team would like to share
    • It has been great working with this group moderating this lessons discussion.
    • I really like working with this team because we get down to business during our team meetings. They are not too long and everything gets organized.
    • Lots of work but just trying to chip away