EDLD 5363 Week 5 Final Project

This has been a crazy week with trying to complete my project and getting everything wrapped up at my school for the break.  But this has been a fun and educational project for me also.  I was not sure how this project was going to turn out with my group members being so far away, but using Google Docs and Google Hangout made it very easy for us to communicate and get all our work done. Google Drive was also a very good resource for us to share all the video and audio files.  The knowledge and resources that I gained will help me in the future when I have to work and collaborate with other teachers and students.  

EDLD 5363 Status of Campus-Supervised Internship and Action Reasearch

I have completed  30 hours for my campus-supervised internship activates to date.  I have completed activates in competencies 02 in Domain I and 04, 05, and  06, in Domain  II for example:  school safety, Teacher (Staff) Evacuation and Development, Campus Culture, etc…  Under student discipline I was able to observe the principals reviewing a student discipline history with him,  and what his future might be on the campus if he could not get his behavior under control.  The principals did a good job of not just focusing on his bad behavior but also trying to encourage him by talking about all the good things he had been doing also.  I also was able to observe the planning of the final exam schedule and all the considerations and conflicts you have to navigate in developing it.  One of the most important things I got to do is make a home visit to discuss with a student's  behavior with the parent  and what plans the school was making to help him be successful.  

 I also completed  ISTE Performance Indicators in: TF-VII-C, TF-V-A, and TF-III-D1.  I have had the opportunity to help teachers on my campus resolve issues with their active boards, setup computers in their classrooms, install software, and assist students in the computer labs. 

After the winter break I plan on working with one of the lead technology teacher on campus to get more teachers who need help with equipment and software to come in the morning or afternoon for help if needed.  Our goal is to get most of the teachers on our campus to take advantage of all the technology and resources the district has provided to them.  I also will be working the principals on my campus to develop an Autism staff development for my campus in the fall.    So far I feel my internship is going ok.  I am not quite where I would like to be, but I think I have a good plan in place to get there. 

I am revising my action research project at the moment.  I have talked to my principal, my campus I coach and other teachers about what program and software they are using in their classrooms and if they are seeing any progress in their students performances.  The one thing that I have learned so far is there is no consistency in what software or web based resources that each classroom is using.   This has made it a challenge for me to decide what direction I want to go with for my project.  At first I was going to look at the districts web 2.0 training and what effects it had on teachers teaching and for the teachers that incorporated some of the tool into their classroom did it translate into student performances gains. 

But on my campus it seems that a lot of teachers are not using much or any of these new resources.  In our lesson plans, it is required for us to show how we are using these tools in our classroom.  Each math and language arts  teacher is supposed to have stations set up for small group instruction and incorporated technology component in them.    After talking to my principal she said they are indicating in their lesion plans that they are using the resources in their classroom, but when the principals visit the classroom they are not seeing them implementing them in their groups.  And so far after looking at the date the teachers that are implementing the group correctly in their classrooms are not show much or any gains in student performance at this time.   I have talked to my campus supervisor and she gave me some ideas and advice that I am going to review over the winter break.  After reviewing her suggestions,   I will decide I want to stick with my original plan or change it. 

EDLD 5363 Web Conference 12/09/12

I attended the web conference on 12/09/12 with Dr. Abernathy.  We discussed what we needed to turn in to TK20 and when we needed to turn them in.  We discussed what needed to be completed and tuned in week 4 and 5.  The group was very helpful in giving ideas of how to share and work with your group, with tools like Google Docs, Drop box, and Google Drives.  Google Hangout was also discussed on how it made it really easy to collaborated and work with your group.  One the students made the suggestion to film many clips but make them small so they would be easy to share them with your group members. All the web conferences I attended were very helpful because all the students were willing to share their ideas and help each other when they had problems.  

EDLD 5363 Web Conference 11/26/12

I attended the web conference on 11/26/12 with Dr. Abernathy.  We discussed our groups and made sure everyone that needed a group found one.  We discussed our project for the next week which was making a podcast and the differences between a podcast and a vidcast.   We could make either one we wanted to.  We also discussed how to use Audacity to record and convert our script narration to mp3 files.  This conference was very helpful to me because the students that attended the conference were very helpful giving ideas and tips on how to use the different software like Audacity.   

EDLD 5363 Web Conference 11/18/12

I attended the first web conference on 11/18/12 with Dr. Abernathy.  The conference was very informative and introduced the key parts and strategies for completing the course.  Dr. Abernathy discussed our week 3 - 5 assignments and that we were required to have groups of 3-5 people in each group.  She left it up to us to form our own groups which I was not that exited about.  I was able to join a group before the conference was over.  I also was not sure how we were going to work together on this project because we were all a little far from each other.  But doing the group we discussed how to use Google docs and other tools to help collaborate together to work on our projects. I felt better about the group project after the conference.