Class 11: Productivity Tools (4)

When I got up yesterday , I first checked my email. Then, I was surprised to find that the campus would be closed! I was very happy... How nice to have an extra day-off ！

Today we will continue work on seating charts, pictograph, and grade book.

Resource
http://www.teacherhelp.org/back_to_school.htm

When you are working, you need to think about the purpose and effects in your future teaching career. You need write reflections on your projects after you finish them.

The following is how to write your reflection.

WRITING YOUR REFLECTION

The final portion of your assignment (worth 30% of your grade) is the reflection. Here's an example of what your reflection/ webpage should look like.

Here's how you go about doing it:

First you need create a page for productivity tools on your Google page creator. After creating the page, add links to each of your productivity tools objects (saved as pdf files - I'll show you how to do this next Monday). Give an explanation for each of your artifacts, what you learned in the development of the artifact, and how it could be used in a classroom. You'll also want to include a few screenshots of your different objects (I'll show you how to do this in class on Thursday).

Then, on the same webpage, explain in detail the types of activities students can do using productivity tools. Your discussion and specific descriptions should focus on activities at a LoTi level of 2 or greater. Make sure to publish the page when you are finished.

The easiest way to go about completing this portion of the assignment is to first talk in general about the products you created - what you learned while creating them and how they could be used by a teacher in your subject area. Then, locate 3 or 4 lesson plans that use the productivity tools and discuss them in detail. The focus of this portion of the reflection is on the ways students can use the tools at a LoTi level of 2 or higher.

There are two good places to go to find sample lessons that use productivity tools:

1. Georgia Learning Connections (select your grade level, select "technology integration" for the subject. Click the "Search QCC button". Then click the "Productivity" link)

2.Microsoft Lesson Plans

Remember that lower grade levels may use tools like Graph Club (for spreadsheets/graphing) and KidPix (for multimedia presentations) instead of Excel and PowerPoint - but you can use these as examples for your reflection.

Don't forget that all of this goes onto your productivity tools webpage with links to the objects you created.