Reflection+5

Describe a Technology Experience You had this Week Description- As a district, we get five excused snow days. We do not have to make any of this time up. This is not really a change for anyone. We have always gotten excused snow days. However, in the past, after that fifth day we had to make up the additional days. Those make-up days had always been made up just like any other school day. That is about to change for this year. For the sixth, seventh, and eighth missed snow day, we are able to make it up via internet. We are required to make up three additional lessons for those days. Those lessons will be posted to the internet for the children to access. The children will have to make up that lesson within a two week time period. The school will have to prove that eighty percent of our students completed that work within that time frame. However, any additional snow day after the eighth one will have to be made up like in the past.

Impact- Today in our Whole Faculty Study Group, we learned about a free program online. The program is called Live Binder, which can be found at [|www.livebinders.org]. I have been told that as a team, we can create a binder for our students that will contain all of these snow day lessons. From using the program today, I found that we are able to include any type of work that we would like them to complete. You can supply the students with a worksheet, video or internet based work, When the student accesses the binder, they are able to print out all of the material and complete it on their own. They do not have to submit the work through the internet.

Intent- As a result, I will create three assignments and post them to the live binder site. The other eighth grade science teacher and I are going to meet and come up with three assignments that are vague enough to be taught at any time of the year. I will include any videos, worksheets, or directions on the site. I will have to make the assignment very clear so that the students are able to complete it on his or her own.