Day 13: Skype, TK Martin,. ART, Webquest

Our Skype session was very interesting with Miguel Alarcon from Concepcion, Chile. I believe this could be a great idea to use in class once I make some contacts with people in different areas. I have not done things like this, because I want to be able to duplicate the experience for each of my classes. That is not very likely to happen. However, I could probably record the session and replay it. I could obtain questions from all classes prior to the skype session so that all students could have a chance to participate, even if not in real time.

We learned how to create a movie with PowerPoint that has our recorded audio and slides. This is very easy to do. I could use this to catch students up who missed a particular lesson. View my video below.

Prior to lunch, we traveled to the T.K. Martin Center and learned about assistive devices for our special needs students.

My art project is progressing. All praise to my supremely talented wife for cutting out my shapes; without her, I'm nothing worthwhile. I got my pieces in place and numbered. Tomorrow I will begin building them up.

We started making a Webquest in class today. I have done these. While this exercise was good for our collaboration, it was stressful getting all four of us on the same page to begin working on it independently. The issue was that we didn't realize we were planning today. We thought it all had to be done today.