This morning students presented their Kurzweil project. Great presentations everyone! There were some creative and cool things tried.
It was tougher than I thought getting up in front of the class to present. There were several things we had meant to talk about or show and didn't realize it until we sat down. It was just as well, because the process was taking longer than expected and there were many things to cover before the end of class.
The afternoon was spent being introduced to the writing process and various technologies to support it in the classroom. When the process is broken down into integrate details, it is mind boggling. Inspiration, Cloze Pro, Write-Out-Loud, Writing With Symbols, Writer Plus and Draftbuilder are tools recommended to assist struggling writers.
We used Inspiration to graphically organize our understanding of the writing process . I would like to have spent more time with Cloze Pro. It had taken me a while to download the program so I felt I was always a step or two behind. I'll spend some time in the next two weeks to become better acquainted with these assistive technologies.
I will share the web address for downloading Readplease to a few of my parents in school.
The You Tube video on disgraphia(LD), The Write Stuff, was interesting to watch. It is always amazing to see young people make such a significant contribution to the lives of other.
Reflection #6
16 years ago
2 comments:
hi Marleen,
I felt the same way about my presentation. Unfortunately, by the time my turn came around I felt that nobody really would want to listen anymore, and sped through far too quickly.
I certainlly enjoyed listening to everybody, though!
Eileen
Hi Marleen,
Needless to say I felt the same way with our presentation. I only wish we could have demonstrated the "cheer" at the end of our activity. However, this just reinforces how much training we need to successfully implement such programs into our classrooms. I can only imagine how quickly a student would "give-up" with an assignment if, as a teacher, I struggled through the demonstration! It would be fantastic to have a person on-site at each school that is an expert on assistive tech, someone who could help with the bugs when we are trying to get the lesson created in a timely fashion. Oh we can always dream! :)
Post a Comment