this time around
i’m doing my best to spend time producing work i let marinate.
ideas that have soaked up my intuition,
my goals, my dream, and my apprehensions.
making myself stop to consider:
are these words something i intend to manifest within the walls of some future classroom?
i still kick a ball around;
it’s what keeps me fresh.
a clean slate, after a few hours on the pitch on a cool, winter evening
attacking, expressing, supporting, defending,
my goal:
treat class like a team:
communicate,
form relationships,
and build each other up.
to create,
like in the beautiful game,
where a result—
a product—
is less important than the effort
the struggle,
the process, in which all students engage
Tag: Blog
The instructions posted by our instructor Rich were very helpful—exactly as intended! In specific instances (like deleting and re-creating a Twitter) help was easily found online with steps that someone graciously published for those of us who are new to this type of sharing.
It can take a little longer because once one begins navigating the OpenEd dashboard they can easily get distracted with changing the background or adding a profile image. These aesthetic touches are something that I look forward to exploring further because this platform allows users to customize their work (a major argument for blog as pedagogy).
Blog as pedagogy:
- The focus of assessment is trending towards asking students to exhibit their learning in the ways they most feel comfortable. I am traditional in the sense that I like to write descriptively about my topic, trying to convey imagery and emotions using solely my words. Here, though, I can try my hand at multi-modal exhibits by including some of original pictures to support my ideas. The above picture was of a fun day out as an education assistant, and I’m excited for more opportunities like this as a teacher. Students can use this tool for a scientific inquiry report, adding pictures, videos or audio recordings of their data gathering or results to replace or supplement their written work.
- The way this platform allows one to embed videos and audio can make it useful for a few specific subjects that come to mind. In French, students can attach audio recordings of their speech so that teachers can know how to adjust their instruction by hearing how comfortable students are with speaking a new language. Teachers can also use this tool to make tutorials. Explaining a complex motor task in Art or PHE, the teacher can add images or videos of correct body position or pencil/brush strokes for students to pick-up the method more quickly
- Since all work is collated within this platform, I see this very easily transitioning to a term or year long portfolio, where students can look back on what they have produced and show their growth.