Week 4: Building Teacher Skills Through the Interactive Web

Technology, The ultimate classroom tool!

Well, another week gone!

            This has been a more relaxed week as it has been very interesting! I had the chance to see myself as a learner and “fill my students’ shoes”! It was very interesting the whole process of the creation of the “TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LESSON PLAN”. I have to confess that it was not easy, but after a lot of reflection I think I managed well at the end!

            I would like t encourage my classmates to take a look of the sites I suggested for this super technological class of mine and the way I will use them with my students. I thought about this class related to “ADVERTISING” and I set all the activities around that idea and topic. The interesting thing is that at the end I thought about this long-term project, which is the creation of a video, advertising an either existing or non-existing (yet) product. I explained a bit about how the students could organize their ideas and I gave them this great site that could help in the process of the creation:

http://www.howcast.com/videos/201980-How-To-Make-a-Storyboard

http://accad.osu.edu/womenandtech/Storyboard%20Resource/

            In these sites the students can find information about how to create their storyboard, which they may include in the process of the creation of their advertisement. It is nice, and could also be used for other activities, depending on the creativity of every teacher, and after all, that’s what teachers mostly are… very creative!

            During this week, I also had the chance of reflecting in the concerns I have with my teaching in the classroom. It was very interesting to talk about those problems to myself while I was writing the post. Now, I think that the ideas to solve those concerns I have, will be more interesting than the problem itself! I would like to receive some comments on that, it’s going to be very interesting the path that I will follow when trying to find the technological tool that will help me in solving this problem!

Well, as I said before… Another week gone! Can’t wait for the assignments of the next one!

I will see you later!

Teacher Henry from Venezuela.