SO, my first take away from today is HOW can be get the services like the SSRSB has? Or the discount codes? Or something so I don't have to pay from my pocket 6 times to get the class iPads set up? This is a serious conundrum. I will certainly put Book Creator on my own personal iPad and then I'm stuck. Grrrr....
All school boards are not created equally....
My second take away had to do with partners. Barb asked us at the beginning of the class to work with someone he hadn't worked with already in the course. I felt a little bad being resistant to doing this, but Tracy and I had already brainstormed on topics that suited out caseloads and wanted to do something quite usable. So we stuck together... but before this course we had never worked together on anything and I had done ONE of the other projects with Holly who I just met in the course. From the partner activity, I could put myself in the place of a student. If they have warning that they are going to be doing a partner activity they may find it harder to switch partners than if they are assigned before they have a chance to wrap their heads around who they want to be paired with.
My third take away had to do with Book Creator itself. What a wonderful app! We are having a lot of fun doing our assignment with the variety of choices the app allows. BUT the assignment itself, which appeared so straightforward to the teacher was not so straightforward to my group or to some of the nearby groups. This reminds me that, like our professor is doing, I may need to explain something that to me seemed straightforward. Patience and understanding work well in keeping students, even M. Ed. ones, motivated and moving.
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