The Screenr URL for our presentation on PBL is: http://screenr.com/iqa7.
During the course of the semester, I contributed my thoughts and feelings in the weekly forums. Our group, the Buddha's, tried our best to give input and complete our tasks.
I also contributed to doing the "voice overs" or audio recordings using ScreenR presentations on our PBL project. I did the audio recordings for Authentic Assessment and also for our final presentation on PBL, what it was about, our SLO's, scenarios, and rubric.
Kayelani, Johanna, and I contributed to each task, especially to the SLO element of the PBL project. Jason was our project manager and pulled off our interesting project on students interning at a stock brokerage firm and how they'd do PBL on playing stock market game, and keeping logs on their weekly data.
I tried my best during the semester to give my input as best as I could, and to learn about the Screenr audio recordings so that our final project could be deliverable.
It's been a hard but interesting semester. I learned a lot here in ED 279 with all the Web 2.0 tools, and it's been great to work with Jason, Kayelani, Johanna, and Michelle and Nathan.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Task_3-6 Reflection (Buddha's)
It is important to use teams in Problem Based Learning because it is important to learn and have all the group members share their opinion. Problem Based Learning works well with collaboration, communication, and cooperation. All members of the specific team has to pull their weight to achieve their goals.
Some problems that I notice with PBL and student teams are our specific topic: "The Silent Partner." Group members drop in and out of the forums, emails, and projects, and leaves other group members to pick up the pieces, and pull the extra weight. I have been guilty of this too, waiting until the last minute to look back on forum topics, and our PBL project and have posted things at the last minute or late.
Some of the other problems with PBL and student teams are, when one person has it all together, and is pretty much on task, the other student group members take advantage of that fact, and then post or communicate with the group just enough to get by.
Jason was pretty much on it because he emailed us, posted reminders in forums, and was the project manager, and did a 110% job on our PBL project. He held the group together and encouraged all of us, and even gave reminders of specific things that were due for each one of our group members. He even texted us, too, when he needed to.
Strategies to manage student conflict within student teams are to keep lines of communication open, and to never give up. Also, to be sensitive and to be understanding of other people's situations. People are fighting hard battles everyday. Also, not to judge people and to ask for clarification when not understanding a text, or forum response, or email response. Also, not to jump to conclusions, and to ask for a mediation with your professor/instructor as soon as possible if a situation between team members can't be resolved.
I know Johanna was asking where our Screenr presentation was located. Other than that, I give props to Jason, Kayelani, and Johanna for hanging in there.=)
Some problems that I notice with PBL and student teams are our specific topic: "The Silent Partner." Group members drop in and out of the forums, emails, and projects, and leaves other group members to pick up the pieces, and pull the extra weight. I have been guilty of this too, waiting until the last minute to look back on forum topics, and our PBL project and have posted things at the last minute or late.
Some of the other problems with PBL and student teams are, when one person has it all together, and is pretty much on task, the other student group members take advantage of that fact, and then post or communicate with the group just enough to get by.
Jason was pretty much on it because he emailed us, posted reminders in forums, and was the project manager, and did a 110% job on our PBL project. He held the group together and encouraged all of us, and even gave reminders of specific things that were due for each one of our group members. He even texted us, too, when he needed to.
Strategies to manage student conflict within student teams are to keep lines of communication open, and to never give up. Also, to be sensitive and to be understanding of other people's situations. People are fighting hard battles everyday. Also, not to judge people and to ask for clarification when not understanding a text, or forum response, or email response. Also, not to jump to conclusions, and to ask for a mediation with your professor/instructor as soon as possible if a situation between team members can't be resolved.
I know Johanna was asking where our Screenr presentation was located. Other than that, I give props to Jason, Kayelani, and Johanna for hanging in there.=)
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Task_3-5 (Buddha's)
Our Screenr presentation on Problem Based Learning and Business Academy, can be found at: http://screenr.com/iqa7.
I narrated the screenr presentation for our group. That was my contribution to our group. I know that Jason has been busting his butt to facilitate group discussion, to facilitate group input on SLO's and pretty much keep our group together. Kayelani, Johanna, and I helped out by contributing as much information as we could into weekly forums, to be cheerleaders and inspiration guides for our group.
College is a challenge as many of our group mates have been balancing, life, family, stress, grades, work, homework, and graduation from Leeward all during this spring semester.
Problem based learning is a good model of instruction to have. I think that it will go a long way with our students if we use this model at Honoka'a High and Intermediate. I have learned that with real life scenarios, and allowing students to think outside of the box and to apply what they have learned, they will have more insight and skills to apply in their future careers.
I think that it is great to have students start being able to develop those critical thinking skills, for they can't be taught by methods of reading in a textbook and trying to visualize what the teacher and author want them to learn.
Research has shown, that there are all types of learners. Problem based learning is beneficial because it appeals to all learners, and has students come up with different solutions to real problems. Research has also shown, that employers will be more apt to hiring students with skills such as being a team player, being prompt to work, and being a problem solver. What better to introduce students to the Problem based learning method early in the middle school and high school years to better prepare them to be college and career ready.
I narrated the screenr presentation for our group. That was my contribution to our group. I know that Jason has been busting his butt to facilitate group discussion, to facilitate group input on SLO's and pretty much keep our group together. Kayelani, Johanna, and I helped out by contributing as much information as we could into weekly forums, to be cheerleaders and inspiration guides for our group.
College is a challenge as many of our group mates have been balancing, life, family, stress, grades, work, homework, and graduation from Leeward all during this spring semester.
Problem based learning is a good model of instruction to have. I think that it will go a long way with our students if we use this model at Honoka'a High and Intermediate. I have learned that with real life scenarios, and allowing students to think outside of the box and to apply what they have learned, they will have more insight and skills to apply in their future careers.
I think that it is great to have students start being able to develop those critical thinking skills, for they can't be taught by methods of reading in a textbook and trying to visualize what the teacher and author want them to learn.
Research has shown, that there are all types of learners. Problem based learning is beneficial because it appeals to all learners, and has students come up with different solutions to real problems. Research has also shown, that employers will be more apt to hiring students with skills such as being a team player, being prompt to work, and being a problem solver. What better to introduce students to the Problem based learning method early in the middle school and high school years to better prepare them to be college and career ready.
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Task_3-4 Reflection (Authentic Assessment)
I looked up a site on Authentic Assessment and found an article by Daniel Callison. The URL is: http://www.ala.org/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/slmrb/editorschoiceb/infopower/selctcallison.
The article came under the heading of American Association of School Librarians. I just wanted to read more about Authentic Assessment to find out what it was about so I could contribute to my group. I emailed Jason to contribute my ideas about what I found and this week, for the Screenr presentation, I added my voice to the powerpoint presentation.
I know Jason was up early this morning about 1am because I was up at that time stressing about school, jobs, and life, and I went onto our Laulima site, and he was plugging away on our presentation.
The role I had this week was contributing ideas to our weekly forum, and contributing ideas about Authentic Assessment, and doing our "voice over" for our Authentic Assessment Power Point presentation.
I know that we are all juggling our jobs, life, schoolwork, stresses, and familiy life and I think our group is handling our overall group work okay. I basically try to stay on the positive side when my life goes topsy turvy. I try to contribute as best as I can and try to encourage as much as I can.
As far as our group, we have had our fair share of trials and tribulations, but in the end, we do what we need to do to best complete our assignments to the best of our ability. I think in life, as long as we plug away, ask questions, try to keep on the bright side as much as possible, it all works out in the end.
The article came under the heading of American Association of School Librarians. I just wanted to read more about Authentic Assessment to find out what it was about so I could contribute to my group. I emailed Jason to contribute my ideas about what I found and this week, for the Screenr presentation, I added my voice to the powerpoint presentation.
I know Jason was up early this morning about 1am because I was up at that time stressing about school, jobs, and life, and I went onto our Laulima site, and he was plugging away on our presentation.
The role I had this week was contributing ideas to our weekly forum, and contributing ideas about Authentic Assessment, and doing our "voice over" for our Authentic Assessment Power Point presentation.
I know that we are all juggling our jobs, life, schoolwork, stresses, and familiy life and I think our group is handling our overall group work okay. I basically try to stay on the positive side when my life goes topsy turvy. I try to contribute as best as I can and try to encourage as much as I can.
As far as our group, we have had our fair share of trials and tribulations, but in the end, we do what we need to do to best complete our assignments to the best of our ability. I think in life, as long as we plug away, ask questions, try to keep on the bright side as much as possible, it all works out in the end.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Task_3-3 Reflection Group: Buddha's
I know that this week I did not contribute to the group's progress in our project. I did not contribute any editing, or proofreading, nor did I preview the memo's or orientation letter. I feel that for me, I got busy with life, jobs, and taking care of mom. My Leeward coursework fell by the wayside and I'm ashamed of that and I feel really bad.
Jason has been diligently from start to finish been plugging away at our forums, our assignments and has been hard at work with working on and presenting each piece of our project on time. I know that Kayelani and Johanna and I contributed to parts of the project.
It seems that everyone is busy with life and obligations to family, school, jobs, and other current issues. Online schooling is very hard because it is easy to let it fall to the wayside and then start reading or doing assignments at the last minute. It is also easy to fall behind, and get distracted by other things as well.
I have forgotten that there are people counting on us in our group, and people are trying to get coursework done, pass, and meet graduation requirements. I feel very bad because by me not contributing, that means that I'm not pulling my weight, and not working to my full potential.
In the coming weeks, I hope to be more dedicated because the semester is almost over, and I hope to ignite a fire under my butt, and contribute more, and procrastinate and worry less.
Jason has been diligently from start to finish been plugging away at our forums, our assignments and has been hard at work with working on and presenting each piece of our project on time. I know that Kayelani and Johanna and I contributed to parts of the project.
It seems that everyone is busy with life and obligations to family, school, jobs, and other current issues. Online schooling is very hard because it is easy to let it fall to the wayside and then start reading or doing assignments at the last minute. It is also easy to fall behind, and get distracted by other things as well.
I have forgotten that there are people counting on us in our group, and people are trying to get coursework done, pass, and meet graduation requirements. I feel very bad because by me not contributing, that means that I'm not pulling my weight, and not working to my full potential.
In the coming weeks, I hope to be more dedicated because the semester is almost over, and I hope to ignite a fire under my butt, and contribute more, and procrastinate and worry less.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Task 3-2 Reflection
Jason is the project manager of our presentation. He has gone well above and beyond the call of duty to make sure that our presentation is well done and well on target.
Johanna and Kayelani supply a lot of the information for our project as well. They have supplied useful research and quality pictures to enhance our project tasks each week.
This week, we all had a chance to give our input on our SLO's for our project. Jason and Kayelani were the first to give their input, and I gave my input in on Saturday night.=)
What's great about Jason, Kayelani, and Johanna is, they are not afraid to step in and help out other group members when we need the help. That is what I think is the strong point in our group.
I was on spring break this week from my two jobs, but I have recently picked up a third job tutoring so I was busy with that among other things like visiting my mother at her nursing home, and making sure her doctor appointments and neurology appointments were all set up.
What can I do differently? To not procrastinate, to research the current event topic earlier in the week, and give my input on our forums and projects sooner and on time.
Also, not to lose faith in myself or in the DOE. I have had setbacks within the DOE this spring semester at my job, and it has really made think...do I want to become a teacher? But, I love the special education teacher I work with, despite another teacher being mean to me, and I love the students I get to work with. And that's why I stay on, for the students that make me smile and laugh, and make me realize that they are the reason why I want to become a special education teacher in the future.=)
Johanna and Kayelani supply a lot of the information for our project as well. They have supplied useful research and quality pictures to enhance our project tasks each week.
This week, we all had a chance to give our input on our SLO's for our project. Jason and Kayelani were the first to give their input, and I gave my input in on Saturday night.=)
What's great about Jason, Kayelani, and Johanna is, they are not afraid to step in and help out other group members when we need the help. That is what I think is the strong point in our group.
I was on spring break this week from my two jobs, but I have recently picked up a third job tutoring so I was busy with that among other things like visiting my mother at her nursing home, and making sure her doctor appointments and neurology appointments were all set up.
What can I do differently? To not procrastinate, to research the current event topic earlier in the week, and give my input on our forums and projects sooner and on time.
Also, not to lose faith in myself or in the DOE. I have had setbacks within the DOE this spring semester at my job, and it has really made think...do I want to become a teacher? But, I love the special education teacher I work with, despite another teacher being mean to me, and I love the students I get to work with. And that's why I stay on, for the students that make me smile and laugh, and make me realize that they are the reason why I want to become a special education teacher in the future.=)
Week #11, Group #4, Buddha's-Current_Event
Hi Everyone. This week our current event topic that our group chose was submitted by Jason Nagata. Jason found a blog written by Steven W. Anderson. Steven W Anderson posted it on November 9, 2011, and the title of the article is: Cool Projects with Skype. Url:http:www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx. You can also find the article/blog using the hash tags: skype, web20classroom, and under StevenWAnderson.
Steven W Anderson decided to check out the Skype In the Classroom website to check out projects, and to search out how teachers use Skype in their classrooms. His interest in the subject came across by a tweet that was tweeted by a teacher that was searching for teachers that would partner up and join a bookclub. Steven W Anderson was interested in how teachers collaborated in the USA and around the world using Skype and how they communicated with other classrooms by means of projects and by searching teachers out on the website.
I went on the Skype In the Classroom website: url: https://education.skype.com . The site has three videos on how teachers can create a Skype account, and how to create a Skype in Education account. Once teachers create those accounts they can search the directory for other teachers, they can also specify in their profiles what subjects they teach, where they are located in the world, and what subjects their classes are studying. They can also disclose information on what kind of educational background they have.
After teachers have created their profile, they can then search for partner teachers for projects, and or post projects that they are creating in thier classrooms. They can invite other teachers to Skype in on certain days and times and have their students hold discussions, interact with games, and also invite guest speakers and experts to participate on projects throughout the USA and around the world.
Some of the projects that Steven W Anderson's blog speaks of is a project that a teacher posted on Practice Graphing. This particular teacher was searching for classes to Skype in and play the game Battleship with this particular class. Instructor was willling to provide the template for the Battleship board to those teachers and classes that were interested. This project was to teach students graphing and interacting with other students as well.
Another project that caught my eye was on: What Does Your Sky Look Like? This teacher wanted "students from different parts of the world to show students how the Earth is positioned, thus causing different moon phases around the world."
This site is great because it introduces teachers and students to different cultural exchanges around the world and different ways of collaborating using technology all around the USA and around the world.
Thanks Jason for the article/blog.=)
Steven W Anderson decided to check out the Skype In the Classroom website to check out projects, and to search out how teachers use Skype in their classrooms. His interest in the subject came across by a tweet that was tweeted by a teacher that was searching for teachers that would partner up and join a bookclub. Steven W Anderson was interested in how teachers collaborated in the USA and around the world using Skype and how they communicated with other classrooms by means of projects and by searching teachers out on the website.
I went on the Skype In the Classroom website: url: https://education.skype.com . The site has three videos on how teachers can create a Skype account, and how to create a Skype in Education account. Once teachers create those accounts they can search the directory for other teachers, they can also specify in their profiles what subjects they teach, where they are located in the world, and what subjects their classes are studying. They can also disclose information on what kind of educational background they have.
After teachers have created their profile, they can then search for partner teachers for projects, and or post projects that they are creating in thier classrooms. They can invite other teachers to Skype in on certain days and times and have their students hold discussions, interact with games, and also invite guest speakers and experts to participate on projects throughout the USA and around the world.
Some of the projects that Steven W Anderson's blog speaks of is a project that a teacher posted on Practice Graphing. This particular teacher was searching for classes to Skype in and play the game Battleship with this particular class. Instructor was willling to provide the template for the Battleship board to those teachers and classes that were interested. This project was to teach students graphing and interacting with other students as well.
Another project that caught my eye was on: What Does Your Sky Look Like? This teacher wanted "students from different parts of the world to show students how the Earth is positioned, thus causing different moon phases around the world."
This site is great because it introduces teachers and students to different cultural exchanges around the world and different ways of collaborating using technology all around the USA and around the world.
Thanks Jason for the article/blog.=)
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