Week+9

Chip This week, I mirrored Dr. Leftwich's powerpoint and lesson almost to the letter, including posting their work in groups to the following place in the W200 wiki (http://indianaw200.wikispaces.com/Easterling+-+Commun.+Tools) except... In addition to completing the Communication workout, instead of doing an in-class presentation, they are doing a very specific blog entry where they are reflecting on the communication activity. They were expected to answer the following questions:
 * Who was in your group (first names only)?
 * How did your group communicate?
 * Name specific tools and how much/little you used that tool to communicate with each other
 * How (technology speaking) did this go?
 * How (personally speaking) did this go?
 * Did you ever do anything like this before?
 * What did you like/not like about this experience?
 * What would you like to have done differently
 * What would the strengths and challenges be to doing this type of activity in the grade level/subject area you want to teach?

The working-in-groups-without talking activity took most of the class time, with the previous remainder going to a review of issues related to the artifact proposals.

__//Sungwon//__

0. Introduction - Gave brief introduction about me. (Majority were late for the lab, so I had to stress the importance of punctuality.) 1. Artifact Proposal #1 Feedback - Spent quite a time to explain their common mistakes. Introduced the new template and explained step-by-step. 2. E-Portfolio Draft Rubric - I had to focus on NETS-T Standard page since the students did not work on this page before. 3. Production Tool Presentation - I emphasized that I will grade them as a group and gave them 2 minutes to organize their presentation. It was actually successful since they really organized well and presentation quality was much better than individual presentation. Some of the students used 4 different tools to produce a presentation slide and created a job aid for a certain tool which I was really impressed about. 4. Communication Tool - I was quite surprised to see many students still not used to some of the tools or websites that we frequently use. I created wiki page for them to work as groups, gave them some time to discuss how they will communicate and divide the work and fill up the page. We did Ning, Diigo, Voicethread, Google Groups, Skype, etc. They had a hard time I guess, but worth trying. Actually they did pretty well.

__**Sinem**:__


 * 1)** I started with emphasizing why communication is important for our lives.
 * 2)** I then started do some housekeeping for:
 * **a)** E-Portfolio Draft
 * **b)** Artifact Proposal 2
 * **c)** PDP 1
 * **d)** Artifact Proposal 3
 * **e)** Case Artifact 1
 * 3)** I talked about each of these projects and I showed some good examples for each of them in order to model my expectations.
 * 4)** Communication Tool Presentation: They selected one of the communication tools last week and they prepared a presentation as a group. For this class, they made presentations in front of the class.
 * 5)** I reminded students what to do before the next lecture and lab.