Blog Post #15 Final Reflection

After going back and reading my blog post #1, I would not change a thing about how I would want my future classroom to be like. Even though I don't want to change anything from my first post, being in EDM 310 allows me now to elaborate on how I can accomplish my goals that I covered in my first blog post.

I still think that group activities will be beneficial to my students. My students will be involved with podcasting, bringing their imaginations to life by using green screens, using Skype, and blogging. All of these will be important tools that will be incorporated into my assignments that my class will collaborate and do in groups except blogging. Blogging will be done individually. I will establish a class blog where each of my students will have assignments in which they will have to discuss with the world as their audience. Blogging will allow my students to become better writers and also by having a world audience it will encourage them to go above and beyond with each assignment.

Podcasting, Skype, and using a green screen is a great way I have experienced to involve a whole classroom to work together to accomplish a common goal. Podcasting, Skype, and using a green screen will help my students with what I talked about in my first blog post. Using these tools will help my students to be more sociable (if needed), learn how to work well with others, and be able to expand their minds to go above and beyond with the help of their classmates and others!

Below is a summary of my experience in EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama, where I was introduced to the four major components that I will be incorporating in my future classroom.

Project #13

I am a proud member of team jags! There are three of us which include me, Chelsea Strong, and Cari Raymond. For our Project #15 we used different types of social Media to collaborate together with so that we could organize our project. Project #15 is a follow up of Project #14. For Project #15 we were to come up with a lesson plan from whatever subject and grade level and teach it on a Smart Board. My group collaborated for this project by using Google Docs, Google Hangouts, text, and email. We used Google Docs for typing out each of our parts that we were going to teach on the Smart Board, so that when we met up to film our presentation we would be organized. We used Google Hangouts to ask questions to one another about the project and to make sure that our projected flowed well together. Next our group used text. Text was for quick reminders of when and where we were to all meet up at for filming. Last, our group did use email. The emails were used as another form of reminding each other of where our meetings and filming were going to take place. Even though I thought communicating through the different social Medias was going to be a hassle and time consuming, I was completely wrong! Using the different social media was very convenient and very efficient. I also enjoyed this project because we were presented with a challenge of communicating through social media instead of in person and I'm proud to say team jags succeed!