Hello again
Well I am coming to the end of my course and I needed to create an artefact that reflected what iI had learned throughout the semester. After much confusion with what to use and how to present it I chose a concept map. The map is created through an online tool called Meadmap which allows for a 30 day trial. The reason I ended up using this tool was the difficulty i had with being able to share others that I had made. Other tools used were Inspriation, Bubbl.us and Cmap all of which were difficult to upload as a webpage or embed in a blog.
Anyway this is my end result for my concept map. Comments are welcome.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
Still Here!!
Well it has been a while since my last post. As one of my colleagues (Joan) mentioned the time to get everything done and up to date is difficult.
My professional experience went very well and I am returning to the same school for my six week internship at the end of the year. I am very happy with the way my teaching has developed over the past year. I have never really lacked confidence in the classroom it has been only with other educators. What I found really beneficial was the continued support and openness that came from having such a collaborative and collegial staff. The mixture between experienced educators and new recently graduated eduactors was a great balance. All teachers were open to sharing new ideas and new ways of doing things. I know I am making this sound like some kind of utopia, don't get me wrong there are issues like in every school. But they do seem to be on the right track to a finely balanced system of collaboration and cooperation.
I have been spending some time on Classroom 2.0 and the discussions have been fascinating. One of the posts was discussing the use of robotics and how Lego have designed a system called Mindstorms to show how robotics works. These would be a fantastic program to use with students from 5-7 as the levels of difficulty can be increased easily. Have a look and let me know what you think.
Cheers
Al
My professional experience went very well and I am returning to the same school for my six week internship at the end of the year. I am very happy with the way my teaching has developed over the past year. I have never really lacked confidence in the classroom it has been only with other educators. What I found really beneficial was the continued support and openness that came from having such a collaborative and collegial staff. The mixture between experienced educators and new recently graduated eduactors was a great balance. All teachers were open to sharing new ideas and new ways of doing things. I know I am making this sound like some kind of utopia, don't get me wrong there are issues like in every school. But they do seem to be on the right track to a finely balanced system of collaboration and cooperation.
I have been spending some time on Classroom 2.0 and the discussions have been fascinating. One of the posts was discussing the use of robotics and how Lego have designed a system called Mindstorms to show how robotics works. These would be a fantastic program to use with students from 5-7 as the levels of difficulty can be increased easily. Have a look and let me know what you think.
Cheers
Al
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