Carrying Out Your GAME Plan

In order to carry out my action plan I will need to create cooperative learning groups, teach my students how to use search engines and Boolean techniques and how to find valid information for the wiki, I will need to teach the student’s how to create a wiki as well as how to make entries on the wiki.  I will need to make a worksheet concerning Boolean search techniques, how to find valid information, and create a worksheet explaining the information required for the wiki.  So far I have been able to create the worksheet which explains the information I want the students to find about the famous person, create a worksheet that explains search engines to use, how to determine if the information is from a valid source, and information on how to use Boolean searches.  I have demonstrated how students are to use search engines to find information, how to determine if the information is from a valid source, and how to use a Boolean search.  My students have started finding information for the biography.  I have placed my students in cooperative learning groups, which provides for the diverse learners as well as the ESL learners, to complete this artifact.  Other resources I will need is one computer for each group as well as the worksheets.

Developing Your Personal GAME Plan

The two National Education Standards for Teachers indicators that I am not as confident and proficient as I would like to be are promoting student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify student’s conceptual understanding and thinking, planning and creative process, design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.  My goal on the first indicator is to incorporate into my lesson plans assignments that require students to create, and participate on wikis to create a biography of a famous individual using http://biography.com/ using a worksheet, creating blogs, voice threads, and concept maps, and podcasts on various topics.  On these digital tools, I will monitor the progress of these projects by checking the wikis, blogs, voice thread’s, concept maps and podcasts daily for entries.   Students will study their wikis, blogs, podcasts, and voice threads and complete a paper assessment of the information.  My goal for the second NETS-T indicator is to create a tutorial screen cast which will teach students Microsoft word with all of its features, access, and excel software.  I plan to give assignments, and incorporate them in my lesson plans that require students to use a computer as mind tools – where they create databases, concept-maps, use inspiration and kidspiration software, use hypermedia  - create movies using sound, images, videos, animations, and create websites, have students do some digital storytelling where they will write a script, develop  storyboard, create a movie, and present their project, evaluation of these mind tool features will be done when the students present their projects to the class.