Follow-Up Session September 13, 2014

Today was an exciting day seeing fellow teachers and sharing classroom ideas, technology and activities.  Some teachers explained that some were useful and others that are not working as expected in the classroom.  Learned some new ideas on creating a newspaper using google drive with everyone sharing ideas at one time.  Using the animoto seems to be exciting, interesting and fun.  Can't wait to see everyone next year. 

Day 20

Last day of the session.  Fellow classmates displayed their weebly page.  It was full of interesting, exciting and motivating ideas to use in your classroom.  Today was a good day to fellowship with each other by sharing ideas and eating together.  I'm going to miss the workshop but not getting up early and driving to State.  Overall, the month was joyous and benefical to me.  I really enjoyed it very much.  Thank you all so much for having this workshop and inviting me to participate.  Hope to see you next year.   

Day 19

Today's session focused on the class presenting their lesson plans.  I learned a lot from my fellow classmates and their subject area.  All of the presentations were informative, exciting and interesting.  My fellow classmates gave me many valuable ideas to use in the upcoming year.  Overall, a wealth of information that needs to be digest to fully understand it.

Day 18

Today's session was on finalizing lesson plans and portfolio.  We also talked about classroom accommodations for students in your classroom.  The tour of T.K. Martin was amazing.  This was my first time seeing a facility of this nature.  The different types of wheelchairs were surprising I never gave any thought that a wheelchair had to be customized for an individual.  The computer center was awesome to see the different types of technology used in the computer room.  Today was the last day for art.  The presentation was nice to see all of the fantastic artwork.  Overall, the day was great.  

Day 17

Today's session on infographic and audio content were very informative and a nice idea to use in the classroom.  I can see using infographic with comparing and contrasting different areas in history or geographic locations in geography.  By using infographic, the finish product would be colorful, meaningful and interesting to the students.  Also by adding the audio would be a great plus to enhance the infographic.  Ms. Cannady's session on copyright or copywrong was very informative showing us ways we may being doing wrong.  My Weebly is coming on nicely along with my art project.  I basically finished today and will present tomorrow.  Overall, I had a great day.

Day 16

Today's session on canvas had a lot of details.  I think it is helpful on the college level for online courses, but on a high school it would be hard because of the need for technology, but if I was teaching an online course it would be great I learned I lot of valuable information.  Dr. Beriswill's session was very interesting.  She showed us a lot of tips on PowerPoint.  Even though I do a lot of PowerPoint, what I learned today was all new and I will use in the classroom this upcoming year.  Art today still not finished, hopefully tomorrow I will be done.  Once again, today was a great day.

Day 15

Today for show and tell a lot of interesting websites were used www.makebeliefscomix.com and www.engageny.com that would be helpful in the classroom.  The sessions of Prezi and ipad were interesting and good to use in the classroom.  The session could have been better if we could have had computers to go along with the Prezi presentation and also iPad for that presentation as well.  It was a little hard to keep up and understand as they went along.  In art today, I cut glass which is bringing my project to a close.  Overall, a great day today.