Geotagging

This weeks assignment has sparked new ideas for possible new lesson plans for my geography unit next school year. I was also thinking about using geotagging as a class building activity. One of our teachers uses Flat Stanley with your special needs class to study geography, I wonder if she could incorporate some geotagging into that assignment.

Thank you all for your helpful advice. Our district is really pushing toward making technology our number #1 focus in integrating technology into our existing lessons, that's why I was thinking that revising all my lesson plans would accomplished this request. I can see by taking baby steps would be much better than overwhelming myself. Thanks again!

The half way mark

I can't believe that we are at the half way mark in this class. We have learned a lot of useful technological applications. My problem is having the time to reconstruct my lesson plans to include these new techniques. I'm hoping that over the summer I will be able to rewrite all of my lesson to include more technology usage.

Standardize Testing

In about three and half weeks our school district will start MAP testing. Every year we come up with different ways to raise our scores. This year we have our kids in what we call boot camp for reinforcement in the areas of Comm. Arts and Math. Selected students give up one elective to attend these practice sessions. I'm interested in seeing the data on how effect this strategy was. The selected students can choose to attend these three week sessions or not. Students that attend these sessions don't like giving up their elective but, we remind them that its just for three weeks and the extra help in Math and Comm. Arts will help them to better understand the curriculum not only for this year but it will also prepare them for next year as well.