Course Reaction

My course reaction is; it has been a lot of work! How's that? But in all seriousness, the detailed work of the unit plan has made me fine tune my way of preparing lessons. I spend a lot of time thinking about the Loti level of each lesson. I have always tried to make my lessons as real world applicable as possible. I have always known I was teaching more than how to use a computer. This course has been useful to me and I have received a number of good ideas for lessons, however it could use some tweaking.

I feel the rubric for the poster sessions is not as useful as it could be. It would have been more helpful to me if my peers were giving me useful feedback on how real world and level 4 my unit plan is than how well I present my unit plan. The peer review was a valuable exercise and the peer review checklist made it much easier to understand what was expected in the unit plan. However they have not been graded yet, so I have no idea if I hit the mark or am totally off base. I liked having Ed available during a work session as he was able to clarify the unit plan to us.

Get rid of having all groups present on the same information over and over this goes for every course, not just 521. It is much more useful when each group does something different. It is a better use of time and talent. I think better guidelines have to be established for all presentations. Something along the lines of the peer review sheet would be nice with a time limit factored in. A big clock counting down would help, I am not joking about that. We are teachers and talking is what we do best. There were a lot of things we were not able to get to because of long running presentations. I think sitting in front of the computers to complete the online peer reveiw google doc is better than at the tables. There was enough time in between speakers to complete the eval. Once I got home, I had trouble recalling everything.