I have certainly been neglecting my blog, as well as my teammates.....please forgive me. Darn Catholic guilt...I feel like I am in the confessional...bless me Father for I have sinned...it has been many weeks since I have posted....
I have been nudging my participants in my TIP to keep trying the different Gaggle features. I trained them one-on-one as needed and provided suggestions for curricular uses and differences for the tools. Especially blogs vs message boards. Lastly, were the chat rooms. In January, I tested the chat room and they worked fine. In March, well, they didn't work. It seems Gaggle updated their Java and DoDEA did not. Ughhh! I had to go through the red tape, begging and pleading to get permission to have the computers updated so we could take advantage of a tool they were paying for.
The teachers and students loved chatting! We used the chat room for a Jeopardy like review game. Students were to use proper grammatical conventions as well as their speedskins when supplying answers. Having good keying skills did make a difference. Many students had never chatted online before and were amazed to see their teacher as well as their classmates all responding. I was amazed at how quiet the lab was...
This week my teachers will take the post survey and I will question the students as well. Next week is Spring break....yeah! I have made no plans and will be spending the majority of my time writing my paper as well as creating my delivery platform....I'm thinking photostory!
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