Kristin+Wozniak

Project Facilitator -** I enjoyed working with Maria Marlowe this year on the PLP project. She was excited and eager to learn. This project is a great way to get teachers motivated and interested in technology. When you have someone you can go to for questions and learn from, you will use the information more. Maria and I bounced ideas off each other and shared ideas on how to use the technology more for our AIS students. I look forward to learning and helping out more where I can using technology. It will be exciting to see Maria take on a training roll next year as she trains a new teacher to blog and use podcasts.
 * __2009-2010 Reflections__


 * Training -** This year we had the opportunity to be trained through the PLP project on Clickers. This was new to me and very exciting. Even with small groups you can create assessments or centers using the Clickers. I had the chance to create a center using pictures and beginning sounds. Next year I hope to use this with the k-lab students and the clickers. I think they would love it. Some other ideas would be to have the fourth graders take a book 1 ELA practice test. You could generate reports on the spot and form data to help use for the rest of the year. I hope to have as much training as I can so I can improve and make AIS an interesting and fun learning enviroment through technology.

__Participating Class/Students__ I will be working with my fourth grade AIS group. This group meets everyday for about 30 minutes.

__Blog Project Outline__ My project will be with the fourth grade AIS group. We meet daily for about 30 minutes and discuss that weeks story from Scott Foresman. On Friday's I will set up a blogging time for the students to respond to a discussion questions reguarding the story. Through the Step Up T-chart they will organize their thoughts and ideas to create a great quality answer when responding to the blog. This will help students understand that there's more than one way to respond to journal topics. I hope to see their interest levels increase as they comprehend and connect their ideas through a blog.

__Blog Outcome and Self Reflection__ [|Wozniak's blogger] This week will be our first blogging lesson, so I plan to do my reflections on Monday. I will keep you posted on the exciting new bloggers in room 17. - The students responses were great. I have continued this blogging all year as a Friday wrap up. This was a great way for the fourth graders to express their journal responses in a new and exciting way. Their reactions were so positive. I see myself continuing this process for many more years.

__Participating Class/Students__

I will have my fourth grade AIS group try a podcast with readers theater.

__ Podcast Project Outline __

Fourth grade will create a podcast using reader's theater and photo story.

__Podcast Outcome and Self Reflection__

- LOVED IT!!! I am so excited to have my AIS students be able to hear themselves read and see a final project come together to show purpose for their reading. They had so much fun with it. They asked to do more and showed pride in their work. Once I had tried this with the fourth graders I decided to do a photo story with my second graders. They ahd more fun with it then the fourth graders. Next year I hope to have one or two readers theater photo stories for each AIS group. AWESOME...