New Projects

Over the past week, I had my Honors Tech 2.0 students work on presentations of some new and exciting applications that can be used in the classroom.  They include: Screencastify, Kahoot, EDpuzzle, ThingLink, Croak.It.  The students presented to me this week.  I liked all the presentations, and decided that in order to give my students more experience speaking in front of audiences, public speaking, I am going to have them give their presentations to teachers who would like to learn about these applications.

I sent out a Google Form to all of our Learn21 teachers, teachers whose classes have devices, and asked them to sign up for which presentations they would like to see.  I got a resounding response, and I am in the process of trying to schedule all of the presentations.  We even decided to video record one of the presentations, and that is currently being edited by our great video production class at Oakridge.  Once we have edited it, I will post it to YouTube and provide the link here for all to see.  The kids did a great job and I can't wait to show it off!

On another note, Jared Colley and I got together to start sorting out his data from his class surveys.  We have some great initial findings, and he has posted about them on his blog and they can be found here: Results.  Some interesting findings and be sure to get through it all, there is a TON of great stuff there!

So stay tuned! Some fun things are upcoming!

Post-Spring Break

Well, we're back to school this week after a very nice and relaxing spring break.  Over spring break many of the teachers I work with were busy grading exams and preparing for the final 9 weeks of school.  The Friday before spring break, I coached my powerlifting team to a 4th place tie at the Regional Meet, and then enjoyed some R&R.

Over break, one of my colleagues, Jared Colley,
was gearing up to give survey to his students. He gave the survey yesterday, and is tallying the results, and fortunately for me, he is going to share them with me.  The survey asked the students their thoughts on the gamification of the last section of material they covered.  I am excited to hear what he has to tell me about the results of the survey and then I myself plan on running some statistics on the survey to find out what the average thoughts from the students were.  I am looking forward to this because overall, it seemed to be a successful use of game-based-learning.

Stay tuned for the upcoming results from this!