Professional Learning Plan

As my journey through the certificate courses comes to an end, it is important for me to reflect on the great technological tools and teaching strategies to which I have been exposed.  Three things stand out as I reflect: my STAIR project, my WPP - Clicker Lessons, and my new Live Binders site for organization.  I will continue to use all three as I teach and learn.

Specifically from this course came the use of the clickers and livebinders.  I feel like I still have a lot to learn in regards to the Smart Response system.  Every time I use them, I take notes and write down my students' comments.  Secondly, I am enjoying FINALLY organizing my resources in my live binder. I have much more to learn and explore with it as well.  In both cases, I plan to sift through the many response lessons and livebinders already in use. 

At this point, I honestly do not want to connect with any other literature or theory.  I feel as though I an full to the brim with new technological resources.  I MUST take some time to sort through and organize all of the knowledge I have gained from the three certificate courses. I have already set up a weekly babysitter so I will have time this summer to delve into these materials.  I have pages and pages of notes including websites, directions, and possible uses.  One of the ways I plan to organize my material is by using Live Binders, which was the topic of my group's tutorial.  Over the course of the past year I have created a wiki, a website, and a blog.  I can include all of these in livebinders as well as important documents, files, and links. 

Between now and the end of the year, I plan to continue working with and exploring files for the Senteo Response Clickers, which were my solutions for my WPP.  I am in the process of creating a pronoun lesson.  Teaching grammar is a challenge with any level of learning, so using the interactive clickers may "spice it up" a bit. I will need help getting more creative with the actual smart lessons that go along with the clickers.  Luckily, we have a clicker training day coming up on May 10 - perfect timing.

Again, to me the most important next step I have to take is organizing this new information and putting it to use as quickly as possible.  I'm afraid that several wonderful resources have already disappeared because I did not document them correctly or save them in a logical place. Using my gloggster account, I created a visiual representation  of my tecnological journey below.

Educational Journey Glog