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.