Evaluating my GAME plan

Course: Integrating Technology Across the Content Areas

Instructor: Virgil Kirk

“Patience is a virtue” could not be a truer statement with regards to my GAME plan. I feel as if I’m at a stand still on Goal 1. I have created the staff survey and sent it out but only seven people have responded. With the end of the quarter and holidays my staff is very busy and the last thing they want to do is fill out a survey. Some of them stated that they couldn’t open up the form so I’m going to put some paper forms in the lounge to see if I can get more responses.

I have come to the conclusion that these seven colleagues will help spread the news and get the rest of my staff excited about learning new ways to infuse technology into their lessons. Next Monday I will be meeting with my Building Tech person to start our “Infused Technology” plan. I’m excited about organizing what we want to do and that will help guide my “Tech Café.”

My students did fill out their “Learning Style” survey. They were very excited to learn what their learning style was. I was surprised by some of the results but for the most part I had figured out what style they were. This week we began the webquest I wrote for EDUC 6712: Supporting Information Literacy and Online Inquiry in the Classroom.

One of the tasks was to communicate with an Elder from their assigned region. They had to ask permission to explore the region. As a class we brainstormed different methods to communicate and the teams were allowed to pick which method they wanted. After it was created they had clues on the location in the school their elder was at and the team delivered the message. The different methods were: word processor, comic life and create a post card, or write it out on a piece of paper. All the students used comic life and even imported a picture for the region they are studying.

I was very proud of the results but more than that, my students were excited about the lesson. I talked to each of my “mock” Elders and they reported back the enthusiasm my students had when delivering their message. I still want to brainstorm a list of different ways to infuse technology into our lessons but this first experience was top notch!