A Long Week

This week has been a long one for me with my Reading Education 430 coming to an end. After scrambling like a chicken with my head cut off to gather all of my portfolio materials and inquiry, I am glad to be able ot do something more relaxing. I have learned that a blog helps you do this because you are able to reflect and just has “me” time to do as you see fit. For example, I took “me” time last night and created a worksheet to go with the Digital Scavenger hunt. I will share it with Amanda and Chloe later and I have already gotten feedback from Jennifer about it. I enjoy that because I know that I did something that I can use in my classroom at a later date and it combines multiple subjects together. Furthermore, it gives the students an activity to do on a field trip.

Now experiencing the actual scavenger hunt was something amazing by itself. It caused us, three grown adults, to use our brains and work together as a team. We built communication skills and collaborated together to achieve our goals. It is a great experience and it also forced us to navigate the campus as a group.

The process of taking the pictures was easy and Amanda did an amazing job with her photos. I took the pictures and shrank them, while Chloe put them together on a presentation. The slides look great and we did an awesome job together. The topic is a fun one and it has learners actively participating and making connections of language to the outside world. I’m a nerd because I love it so much.

We did run into some issue with putting the photos into the presentation though. I had to go back and shrink some of the photos twice because they were too large to put into the slide show. To work through this, we were forced to communicate even more and multitask. What was amazing is how we were able to all work on the presentation, on different slides, and it would automatically update. This is another example of the whole cloud computing idea and how awesome it can be when it works correctly.

I am proud of our presentation and I plan on using this in the classroom.