STEM

This class has taught me so much.  I am very happy to have taken the class.  I have used several of the technologies that have been taught in my class.  The students really like Prezi, QR codes and completing the DBLs using iMovie.  I also like the 3D Game Lab, I would like to spend more time working with this to see if  it can be used in my class.  Next semester I will try using Popplet with my students. I will also be incorporating more YouTube videos and TED Talks. http://prezi.com/sdxj7itht14w/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Stem Class

I am so glad I took the time to take this class.  I discovered some great things to use in my classroom!  I never realize how easy it was to make QR codes and my students thought they were so much fun to add to their vocabulary word walls.  Another thing I will take and use again it the Popplets, I like that is is interactive with everyone.   Overall I enjoyed the class and I like that it was online so as teacher when we have a "free minute" I was able to do my class.

I must say that some of the most positive things I learned in this class along with collaboration would have to be the use of the new technology related to Anna moto, picto card, Prezi, and the like. These are excellent items to use as far as presentations, as well as graphic organization. I feel these will be great tools and will definitely enhance the lessons and the work done by students over the long haul.

I really enjoyed working with 3D Game Lab and look forward to using it in my courses next semester (or next year more extensively).









The idea of using student leaders to help develop pertinent materials is something I hope to continue as well.  It changes their and my perspective on lessons and could really make it more collaborative.

A Learning Jam (no peanut butter to go with it though in case of allergies).

My Mood:

I feel like I grew a lot in this course in terms of my confidence in technology use.  My students enjoyed getting to do the projects and the increased use of what to them is probably routine (using their devices).  PBLs are not as intimidating now, and that is such a good thing because I really believe that students will retain more through that style of education.

I also enjoy using QR codes, Popplet, and Prezi, but I am really glad that we were exposed to so many different types of ICT.  I noticed in several other posts, that other participants liked some of the other applications - so it appears that the variety is certainly a good thing.

Thank you to the team who put this together! This was a worthwhile learning opportunity and you all made it possible!

I am going to echo a few of the other posts in my suggestion: I was really enthusiastic about designing my own 3D Gamelab, but we didn't have a lesson on how to do it. It would be great to have that added for future classes.

Thank you again and have a wonderful winter break soon, everyone!

I'm Lovin It

I am loving all the technology I have been learning about through my enrollment in this course.  My goals for future lesson plans include technology as often as possible.  I have really enjoyed watching all the videos and TED talks.  I now subscribe to the YouTube channel and geek out over the videos while I am on the treadmill at the gym.  The Google+ community, prezi, popplet, and QR codes have been the most helpful to me.  My students had their science fair projects due today and I was very pleasantly surprised to see two of my students who posted QR codes on their science fair boards!  They linked the QR codes to helpful websites they referenced to help them with their science fair projects.  Warmed my heart.  I love hearing about my students using the StudyBlue.com flash cards, Chirp, and sending me messages in Google+.  They are excited about using hashtags (#) in their posts and now the joke of the day in class is to listen for me to "hashtag" some part of my content delivery.  This course has really helped me to extend my reach to my students on a more technical level.  Working with the community member in DBL#3, he was very excited to see my students collaborating on a Google+ community and having to look up information using the online social network.  Thank you for the opportunity and I have really enjoyed participating in the course.  Learned invaluable information which makes my hectic teaching days much, much easier!

Some of my students presenting their popplet's...

I really appreciate how user-friendly Diane made the course.  Especially since everything was done online.  Diane, you did a fantastic job breaking the assignments down and making sure we knew step by step what we had to do to accomplish our assignment.  June, and Diane McKee were fantastic about responding to any questions or concerns or technical issues I had.  Thank you for easing my anxiety about technology mal-functions!

I would love to learn more about how to make the YouTube videos like Mr. Anderson on his videos.  How do I interface my computer to create the short videos to help me flip my classroom?  What is the best way to help me use technology to flip my classroom? - These are all questions I now am working through as I begin to use technology and flip my world upside down.  :)

I also really appreciated the instructors, (Diane) being so flexible with our teaching schedules.  With life, teaching, and using Student Leaders, Peer Collaborators, and Community Leaders, and a fall break to Italy, the scheduling became hectic!  Thank you to Diane for your flexibility to help me succeed in this class!

Sincerely,

Chantel Dooley

One More Assignment to get it!

Thanks so much for this opportunity.  I will be taking these tools and using them in my class for sure.  I love the popplet tool A LOT!!  I think the students will love it too.  There are so many tools that I would have never found on my own.  But I got to honest.  When I saw this grant shown at ISTE 2013 I though there was going to be like the 3D GameLab.  I really was looking forward to posting challenging up on there and having the students earn tokens. That was the biggest let down.  The ISTE conference got my hopes up.  I was looking at my units and figuring out how to make it work with the 3D lab.  I would love to do something like that with my class.  Why?  I feel like the students are so dependent on me and they need to work together and without me.  I think the 3D Lab would do this.  Other than that, I loved the online class.  Thanks for the tools.  My toolbox is now loaded up and I am sharing them with my colleagues.