Carrying Out My GAME Plan

What resources will you need to carry out your plan (video, reading, experts or colleagues, etc)?

In reviewing my GAME plan, I see that I need a wide variety of resources to carry out my plan. When approaching the NETS-T standard that addresses assessments and digital age learning resources, I will require videos to incorporate into my lessons, online rubric builders such as Rubistar, and video conferencing equipment and capabilities. I may also try to incorporate Skype into these lessons and utilize that when working with colleagues from other school districts. The videos that I will acquire I will get from Discovery Education and United Streaming. There is a variety of resources at this site, even some presentations that have been made up to align with certain state standards. I want my students to be a part of the rubric building at times, so Rubistar is a great choice to allow students to help in the process of building a good rubric. I may eventually allow them to create a rubric for their own project that they would have another student grade them week. This would be more of a peer assessment strategy. I also would need the web resources when searching for alternative assessments. I want my students to have the abilities to utilize wikis, podcasting software, and the knowledge of how to upload things onto a wiki or website. These alternative assessments could serve as a portion of their cumulative grade for a chapter or unit.

When approaching the NETS-T standard that addresses modeling digital citizenship and responsibility, I will need mainly time. This time will be put to use by going through all of my PowerPoint presentations that I have already made up and including the citations of where I found the particular pictures. I may need to “refind” them in order to accomplish this. I also have found a website that I may incorporate with my students. This website (http://www.openc.k12.or.us/citeintro/citeintro.php?Grd=Elem) is a citation maker. Students will be able to put in the required information and it saves the citation and allows them to copy and past it into whatever document they are working on. This will help students learn what parts of a citation are necessary and how to put them together. It will also show them that I feel this is a vital step to completing their work by citing their resources.

What additional information do you need?

I may need additional information from experts as far as the video-conferencing equipment and capabilities are concerned. This is something I would have to learn how to work and implement into the classroom. I will be gleaning any information I can from our technology coordinators in this area of my GAME plan. I would also like to find more alternative assessments and do some more research on ways to incorporate more technology into my classroom from a lecture standpoint. I have an InterWrite board in my classroom that I want to utilize, especially in my math classes, but would like to attend a professional development session to learn how to properly use this item of technology and get the most of out it for both me and my students.

What steps have you been able to take so far?

As it is summer and school is no longer in session, I have only been able to do the research for different virtual field trips and alternative assessments. I have one virtual field trip ready to set up for the coming school year with the Grand Canyon’s educational programs. This is something I hope to get signed up for, as it is on a first come, first serve basis only. I will be speaking to my principal and technology coordinators about it this week so as soon as the time comes to sign up, I can be first in line! I will continue to do research in finding great resources to utilize in my PowerPoint presentations in the coming weeks.