Whew! This is the latest I have made a post to my blog but I never realized how much being a perfectionist could take over your life! Knowing I wanted to put my Final Project in Google Sites, it only seemed to make sense to put it with my ePortfolio since it would need to be there eventually. Once less task to complete, right? Yes and no! the write up was completed a yesterday but today was spent setting up my site just the right way. Now, I realized changing the way it looked today might not have been the best idea but after reading something Dr. O'Connor posted about which templates might look good for ePortfolios I thought it was the right time - WRONG TIME! Only from the stand point time was my enemy today.
What really saved me with my project was doing my Bloom's Taxonomy Table the way I did. I created my objectives, activities, and assessments at the same time. Being a visual learner I needed to see the complete picture to wrap my head around what we were doing with this project. So I thought it would be best for me to put it together this way. In the end, it saved me quite a bit of time. I only needed to refine bit and pieces to it while adding the missing parts such as extended details. This also allowed me to reflect On what I had written and come back to it a day later to see if it was something which needed changing. I believe this lessened the pressure on this part of the project.
Now the presentation part of the project is where I can get too wrapped up and I really did (as usual). I like things to look a uniform way so I needed to make sure my ePortfolio site was uniform. Once that was corrected and the theme changed (see the story about that one in the first paragraph), I set about putting the pages in and formatting those just the right way. For part of the project, I called upon my use of Elluminate but then realized not all of my fellow classmates are familiar with this wonderful project. So I knew I needed to create some detailed explanations for what I was discussing. More time to complete some extras for the project such as creating screenshots, a step sheet, creating some PDF's and of course my favorite creating a Jing to visually and verbally explain what I meant. No wonder I feel exhausted right now.
In the end though, I learned quite a bit about how to make sure to develop student centered activities. When the students are actively involved and engaged in the lessons the greatest learning takes place. I plan to share what I have written with my teaching partners so we can work on developing the decimal skills our fifth graders will need now and in the future.
Like Cinderella, the clock is about ready to strike midnight and this is my signal to call it a night. This coming week is our final week so I shall me making one last post for this class. Until next week, I am heading to the land of slumber! Night all!
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