“Once the goals have been set for a GAME plan it is important to research the necessary resources you will need to be successful in filling out your goals (Cennamo, Ross, Ertmer, 2009).” Now that I have researched the resources and began to try the implementation of it I am finding out that there is more to this than I originally thought. When I started this GAME plan I thought I would be able to implement this without much problem at all. As many of you stated I have switched to starting with a much smaller group for the original colleague wiki. I am going to need to rely heavily on their support. We decided to try and start this in January or February. Right now everyone is busy with the start of the school year and we wanted to start at a time when we think we would have the most success. Once we see how it works than we can try to spread it to the rest of the staff.
As far as starting a blog with my students I found out that I have a few hurdles that will have to be jumped over first. While talking to the technology teacher she informed me that I would have to get permission with people at the district level. Then we would have to get parent permission for their student to participate. I would have to show the district that this would be an educational blog that would be beneficial for the students. The nice thing I found out was that if we got all of this lined up then a technology person at the district level would help in setting up the blog. I thought this was a nice. So I still have a long way to go. I understand the district wants to cover all our tails in this day and age of legal issues.
Reference
Cennamo,K., Ross, J. & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology integration for meaningfulclassroom use: A standards-based approach. (Laureate Education, Inc., Customed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
Coach - Hopefully, while you are waiting for district permission, you can work on building the blog structure for your students. That way, if and when you get approved, you are ready to go and have some things in place. I think your students will be more excited to see a blog that is up and ready instead of a bare bones site that has been sitting there while you wait for bureaucratic red tape. Sorry to hear about your delays. Stay positive!
ReplyDeleteThanks Mr. Horning,
ReplyDeleteI have been having issues with this whole blog thing this week. I have been trying to post to peoples blogs this week but nothing has shown up. I have no idea why. I have been doing the same thing that I do every week. Hopefully this show up now. Thanks for your ideas. I do not know how long it will take but your suggestion of having it ready is a good one. I appreciate it and hope you have a great week.
-Jakob-