We've started getting into the curriculum in our classes, and the pace is a bit, well, intense. We had our Back-to-School Night at the start of the week, which was fairly well attended in particular by the freshmen parents. I just think the evening is too long for parents, perhaps a different format would work better for parents and staff? An open house format, where parents can come for an hour or two after school and meet the teachers they'd like to?
In Desktop Publishing I am focusing on using Moodle to house more resources and tools that students can access. I want to eventually have the students create screencasts. I've used Screenr in the past, but I'd like to find a better tool. I am also working on getting to know students individually, which in Desktop Publishing is sometimes challenging.
In eTechnology, my biggest challenge continues to be the overwhelming amount of tools available and which are best for students to learn. We did a short Word unit, and will be heading to Excel next. Via a survey using Google Docs and Moodle, Excel appears to be an area of weakness for most students. As it is such a powerful tool, I think it is an important tool to use. Students are blogging, and so far their posts are well written and informative. They will be sharing these with their parents soon. We are using Blogger to blog.
Mac Applications feels like I am off to too slow of a start as we begin with Pages. Students are pretty comfortable with most word processing application, so I have them do a few short projects, but like to move on to other applications. I need to rethink the Pages unit all together. We are beginning Keynote and the project is rather involved.
I am hoping to continue writing this blog all year to reflect upon and learn from my teaching.
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