Objective: Teachers will learn how to access student portfolios and assess their learning. Teachers will encourage communication and involvement with family members. This session was supposed to be held after school however, one person was not able to make it because she needed to leave at 4:30. We also had grade level planning all day. Once we finished planning at around 2:30, someone asked me if I could have my last session now since everyone was already here. At first I was hesitant but I am glad that we decided to do it then. We were in the conference room along with the school STAT teacher and the reading specialist. They were eager to join in on the session, so I sent them a link to the Hyperdoc. The STAT teacher and Reading Specialist were starting over from scratch but they were able to use the directions that I had on the Hyperdoc to figure it out. The reading specialist was excited because she is interested in using it with her small groups that she pulls out of the classroom. The STAT teacher was curious about the website because she has a son who is now in third grade. At the end of the session I had the teachers complete a google forms survey which allowed me to see what they already know and what they still do not understand. After the last session, two out of the four teachers still want me to teach them more about Seesaw. Another teacher is interested in my teaching her about other presentation tools besides PowerPoint. I have sent her an email about using Genially. Her husband is a pastor and would like to try something new to present off of at church. I look forward to continuing to work with coworkers, while learning about new technology tools.
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Objective: Teachers will encourage collaboration between the students and their peers. Teachers will learn how to set up a student's online portfolio. This session was held online using zoom. This meeting was held after school at 5:00 p.m. Three people were able to join zoom from their laptops and one person had to join from her phone because she had to take her children to dance class. At the beginning of the zoom meeting, I asked everyone to share their activity that they created on Seesaw. It was very interesting because out of the four people, only one teacher felt comfortable using the voice instructions on top of the words. It was nice to see how creative everyone was with creating their own activity that went with a current unit. One issue that was noted was how hard it is to use someones template of a chart and take the title of the story off of it. Every time we would copy and paste it into word. We were able to crop it and save it. However, when we pasted it onto the assignment, the title kept showing up. Almost everyone was against using the zoom session for us to collaborate but it turned out to be a success. Everyone figured out how to share their screens and if they needed help it was easier for me to see what exactly they were having difficulties with.
Objective: Teachers will learn how to customize learning by creating assignments that align to the curriculum. Teachers will learn how to access Zoom to participate in online meeting sessions. I started off the session by getting one person caught up with adding a few more students to her class. Then, another teacher asked me how to change the icon character that is next to the students name. Session two took place in my classroom after school at 4:30p.m. Today, I was teaching the teachers how to browse the Activity Library and demonstrating how to also choose an activity that is already made and share it with your students. I used the projector to project my screen and allow them to watch me as I demonstrated how to share the activity with their students. I also showed the teachers how they can like an activity, therefore if they do not want to share it at the moment, they will be able to easily get to it.
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Charmaine FutchI am a third grade teacher and technology liaison in Baltimore County. I am currently enrolled in the Educational Technology graduate program at Loyola University of Maryland. Archives
November 2018
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