Currently my GAME plan addressing my first goal has slowed this week. While I have established a time frame to meet with my colleague next week about how to use the SmartBoard effectively, I am “playing” with the SmartBoard and trying to do different things. Usually I make mistakes, but I am discovering that many of the students, who have been in classrooms using SmartBoards, know how to use them as well. I may pursue students that are in my study halls to show me what they know. I don’t feel the need to alter my action plan, but I am considering – regardless of the success of my meeting with my colleague – to take the advanced SmartBoard training offered in the spring. If I am going to utilize this piece of technology to its fullest potential, I need to understand all of its capabilities.
So far, I have learned how a SmartBoard’s notebook technology can serve as an interactive PowerPoint. I can have explanations and examples prepared and students can manipulate sentences and paragraphs for punctuation, fluency, and organization. This serves as a learning opportunity and formative assessment. So far, I do not have additional questions, but I am sure that after my meeting next week, I will have plenty.
As for my other GAME Plan, I am continuing to improve in practicing digital citizenship and responsibility. Because of my increased use of SmartBoard technology, even if it’s just using the SmartBoard notebook, I am having my students access information on the Web frequently. I often reference a website or pull information from a variety of pages or show a quick film. Despite the easy flow of information, I need to properly provide credit to these sources. While I cannot say that I am properly citing everything, my students do see the citations on the bottom of the page that says where the information was from. I am using www.citationmachine.net to help make the citation process quicker for me and I am striving to make my students more accountable. I will be changing my goal slightly from only focusing on my practice of digital citizenship to focusing on my students’ practice as well.
Brad Feick
HS English
Walden University
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I have used Son of Citation Machine, too. It's a great tool for teaching kids to reference. It sure makes it a little easier. Another website I use is color coded, which makes it easier for the kids. It is located at http://www.library.illinois.edu/learn/tutorials/citation.html.
Digs
Teaching students to give credit takes on a whole new meaning when it comes to the internet. Crediting printed material has always been required when they write research papers, but with so many of them working with online materials, this is going to be something they need to be proficient with. I have to confess to being less than stellar in my own acknowledgments, especially when using online graphics.
You will definitely be doing your students a favor by holding them accountable as it will be necessary when they get to college. This was an area I had to completely learn again; it had been many years since I had referenced anything! A site I use often is BibMe @ http://www.bibme.org/ for referencing; dont' know how it compares to the others listed, but it has worked for me through these courses.
Sounds like you are making great progress on your GAME plan - keep up the good work...Jane
As a teacher who is responsible for junior research papers, thank you! The most difficult task for students is for students to correctly site a source. Until their junior year, many of them had never used citations, thus creating a major problem when they became responsible for having them in their research papers. I think that your students will be so prepared, you are doing them a huge service by providing this for them. I think with the SmartBoard the key is exactly what you are doing, and that is experimenting and working with it. We use them for our Daily Grammar Practice and it has worked well. Good Luck and let me know your work is progressing.
Hi, As a high school teacher, I could not agree with you more on the teaching of digital citizenship. Our district requires each and every student as well as faculty members to attend at least one seminar on proper usage of the internet before they will be given a username and password. The seminar includes plagerism, personal safety, cyberbullying, etc. I love the idea and during the seminar students are made aware of courses offered through our media specialist in which they can learn how to search, cite, and write papers. It truly is an awesome program for our students. Does your district offer anything similiar?
Hi, As a high school teacher, I could not agree with you more on the teaching of digital citizenship. Our district requires each and every student as well as faculty members to attend at least one seminar on proper usage of the internet before they will be given a username and password. The seminar includes plagerism, personal safety, cyberbullying, etc. I love the idea and during the seminar students are made aware of courses offered through our media specialist in which they can learn how to search, cite, and write papers. It truly is an awesome program for our students. Does your district offer anything similiar?
November 27, 2010 1:19 PM
Blogger Kerry-Ann said...
Brad you are really focused on your expectations of using the SmartBoard which is commendable. You should not hesitate to ask your students to help you navigate you way around the SmartBoard. By allowing students who have more knowledge about operating technology would be a pleasure for them to know you consider their “expertise” and experience. When students’ worth can be acknowledged by peers and colleagues this helps to build their confidence in the subject matter. At least you know you are making meaningful use of the SmartBoard and that there is work in progress to learn much more.
Some of us are moving at a slow pace where monitoring our game plan is concerned. Nevertheless, we will accomplish our goals eventually. By modelling the correct example of giving credit to the owner’s of intellectual property is the best way to model how we should respect others’ work. With regards to you not being able to cite sources correctly is not really detrimental, as long as you can give students a model of how to properly cite references for research purposes then it is all fine.
Keep challenging yourself to learn more to enhance your input in the classroom.
K. Kerr
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