Carrying Out My Game Plan

For my first goal to promote student reflection using collaborative tools in order to facilitate learning and creativity, I will need to teach students how to use a discussion post/blog.  They will need to learn proper etiquette when writing.  This will require me to give students opportunities to “try out” the blog/discussion post and use these examples for instructional purposes on acceptable postings.   Then I can move on to regular discussion posts/blogs for student reflection.

My second goal is to participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning.  I will need to join a global learning community to share/exchange ideas with other educators.  As a member of ISTE, I believe that they have these online learning communities.  It is necessary to carve out time each week to take part in this.  Also, I will need to schedule a time to meet with other teachers in my county to sit down and share our ideas.  We have been talking about doing this for awhile now, but it is necessary to actually schedule a date and time in order to make it happen.

All of this takes time, which I have very little extra at this point.  However, I realize the importance of providing engaging, creative, real-world learning activities for my students.  This is not something I can do alone.