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3) How might you incorporate photo sharing into a educational activity or unit? What might be some concerns you would have about allowing students play with these services? What might be a great benefit of such services?
I could use photo sharing for a number of units: family, my likes/dislikes, places that speak French (geography, tourist, citizens), foods, types of stores/buildings, clothes, furniture, modes of transportation, sharing with an e-pal, etc. Students could create a PowerPoint presentation, a book, a dictionary, a display. I think it would be a great tool for a group project. The numerous pictures available could be overwhelming for an individual project, depending on the time frame. Again, the filtering/policing thing is an issue for me. Authentic photos are so much better than the contrived ones in a text… no matter how good/up-to-date the text. A good picture is worth a thousand words.
4) In reading Chapter 2, what similarities and what differences did you identify between the process the authors describe and the processes you have used to develop educational lesson plans? If you have not developed educational lesson plans, were there aspects of the process described in this chapter that you found particularly surprising, useful or unnecessary?
Every week my school has us complete a standardized lesson plan form. It has us include: benchmarks (analysis), materials to be used (design & development), students’ prior knowledge (analysis), new vocabulary, objectives (analysis & design), direct instruction procedures (implementation), monitoring/adjustments to lessons (evaluation), assessment & evaluation (evaluation), extensions of the lessons, and levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy covered. Every other week we are required to do, and turn in to our administrators, curriculum reflections (summative evaluation)— what worked well, what didn’t, what we think we should do differently next time. I am the only French teacher in my building. The only teamwork I get is when I ask the Spanish teacher what she did/used when she taught ‘X’. Hopefully the material is easy to change (vocabulary) so that I can use it.
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I never thought about a powerpoint presentation but that would be a very useful tool for that. And, yes the filtering/policy does remain an issue and probably always will! It is amazing how one picture can tell a whole story!
That is a neat idea for a project! I completely agree with you have authentic photos! Since I have a lot of digital cameras at my disposal being the yearbook adviser, I often try to incorporate real photos into projects.
I am the only teacher for most of the subjects I teach as well which makes it hard to collaborate sometimes. Although I kind of laugh when we are required to make common assessments for each subject since I just have me, myself, and I. I still try to get ideas for similar subject teachers as well and my mentor teacher helps out a bunch too.
We don't have any formal lesson plan rules at our school.
I really like the idea of incorporating other software (like power point) with the photo sharing sites.
Do you have to submit a lesson plan form for every lesson you taught for the entire week, at the end of every week?
I think it is good and bad to be the only one in your subject area. Good - I get to rule my own little world and I don’t have to follow the lead of someone else. Bad - like you said less or no collaboration with other teachers.
And like Nicole, we don't have any lesson plan rules our schools either.
How you feel about submitting those lesson plans every week? The reason I ask is that I had to do something similar the school I student taught at. It seemed like a whole lot of extra work and I felt like there MUST be a better way. I understand that standards addressed must be documented and all but...what a lot of extra work! Don't get me wrong, I am the last person to complain about doing what is asked of me but geeze Louise, curriculum reflections?! I am so busy at my school I just don't know how I could fit that all in. You are in a district that is really going the extra mile.
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