Project development

After starting my project as a googleforms assessment tool, I have revised what I am doing. I started out  by making forms for units to assess whether or not children's were demonstrating the components of a physical skill by the end of the unit. I based this on seeing a teacher assessing high school students with a simple drop down assessment. What I noticed upon trying to use the tool was that I struggled with missing things going on in the class because my focus on the iPod. After talking with Meg, my new goal is to use video to assess t the end of the unit. I want the kids to be able to look at themselves and see what they are doing right. I will use iMovie to try and capture kids at the end of a unit showcasing their skills.

Articles and reference links Reflection

I enjoyed reading the tools for the 21st century breakdown on all the different websites/services to search and organize info. The most exciting thing is definitely twitter and I hope to set one up on the 21st. I loved the article on the endeavor of trying to mesh creativity with effective classroom management, to me that is my everyday mission. My other biggest takeaway relating to my teaching area was the last two entries of the 8 ways of looking at intelligence. "your body can make you smarter and relationships can make you smarter". To use exercise and play to enhance the students education as well as foster relationships through gameplay are two things that I would like to focus on in teaching, perhaps I can make these some type of piece of my ipod assessment.

Testing out my ipod touch menus during class was a bit problematic today. The focus I need to have on the class gets split during the large group activities. I am still thinking it will work but I need to come up with the correct times when I could use it. I am already thinking how if I have stations for a couple of classes and position myself at a different station each class then I could stand there, observe and record.