This was a very informative day and well worth attending, from Jon Corippo as the keynote speaker showing us how to use Socrative with Emojis to get students to improve their writing schools to workshops on google classroom and using QR codes and M-learning.
All of the presentations I saw had good takeaways for teachers and gave inspiration for further thought. F for Feedback was one of those such presentations. Matt Kelly and Kelley Miller showed us the importance of rubrics and how those can be used in the class as a whole to give feedback and then used more individually in pairs. A further discussion with Dr Redmond gave me ideas on how I could use this type of feedback as data in my capstone project, which was very exciting, as I’d not thought data could really be evaluated in this way for my research. I will certainly use this idea in my class when students are working on projects/presentations. I already provide a rubric to show students how they will be graded. Taking samples of good and mediocre projects and projects that need to be worked and showing them to the class and getting students to grade prior to being complete will be invaluable I think in getting students on the right track to what is needed. Kate MacMillan and Jennifer Baker introduced us to many digital resource tools that we as teachers can use in our classroom. I was excited to learn that Encyclopedia Britannica is available in Spanish, and so students can use this directly to access information about projects they may be researching. Tumble books, available through the public library, also has a collection of stories in both French and Spanish. It would be really interesting to read a story in class and then get them to design a story of their own. My Spanish 4 students attend Napa Valley Language Academy where they help out in the classroom. It would be nice for them to be able to present a story of their own, as they often spend time reading short stories with the students. Kate MacMillan also offered to come to our school to help look at the resources we have at our school and how we might go about using them, which was great. I also attended workshops on google classroom where we were shown the basics on how it works, how assignments are added, and how we can go about adding a grade for our students. Google are still apparently working on some kind of a grading program/ how to link it to a grading program. At Justin-Siena we’ve had some teachers who have piloted Google classroom, but we currently use Schoology as our platform. I’m not sure which direction we are ultimately headed, but it was certainly useful to gain an insight into how we might go about using the program. My favorite workshop was probably the last one that I attended, the QR codes and M learning. I thought that the presenter was going to focus mainly on QR codes but I was pleasantly surprised with the amount of apps he included as part of M learning. He talked about Ed puzzle, Quizziz to name a few, but Flipgrid was of real interest. The presenter showed me how you can locate teachers in different countries and make connections with them and their classes. I have been looking for a way to easily find other Hispanic or French classes to correspond with, either just by skype/video or even email so that students can get a chance to practice their language skills with a real live native speaker – this was awesome! This really was a great opportunity to network with other teachers, collaborate and get some great new ideas on how to incorporate more technology in our classroom for the benefit of our students.
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Scott Marsden
2/11/2019 05:14:49 pm
Natasha,
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2/11/2019 11:27:08 pm
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