Internship Reflections: TF 11.A

Design developmentally appropriate learning opportunities that apply technology-enhances instructional strategies to support diverse needs of learners.

Plan with grade levels appropriate lessons using technology.

At the end of September, 2010,  the third grade teachers wanted to start a project with their student’s favorite places around our city. I met with the teachers to discuss the possibilities of branching this lesson so that the student could take the idea global. We started with the logistics of students gathering pictures of their favorite spots around University Park, Texas. The students were to create a five or more “slide” narrated VoiceThread about their favorite spots around town which we called hot spots. We contacted our district Global Teacher, Edna Phythian, to help us connect with a class in Madrid. We created a shared Google doc to keep everything organized and in writing. I met again with the teachers in early October to finalize lesson and to create a simple blog where we could link each students VoiceThread for others to easily find and interact. On October 21 I updated our shared Google doc to have links to each teacher’s VoiceThread Hotspot project on the blog. Later the teacher from Madrid shared her link.

Click on the following links to begin watching videos:
UP-Kellison Golden's Hot Spots Password: Panthers
UP-Kirsten Taylor’s Hot Spots Password: Panthers
UP-Kim Brooks’ Hot Spots Password: Panthers
UP-Kelli Goolsby’s Hot Spots Password: Panthers
UP-Kathleen Taylor’s Hot Spots Password: Panthers
UP-Laura Cornett’s Hot Spots Password: Panthers
Madrid Hot Spots Password: joaquina