April has been another exciting and challenging month. A large focus of April for myself and one of my colleagues has been tech steps. We have worked together to complete the 7th grade RLA tech steps on creating comments on a document as well as an image project. I must say that I am still surprised that this project is being completed in 7th grade as I did not obtain these skills til college. However, having the students working with partners has made the activity easier and they learned from one another. The 8th graders have been even busier with 2 tech steps projects. The first one we completed was issue to action. This project had students research a problem that we are facing currently either globally, nationally or locally and then come up with an action plan on something that they could do to help benefit the cause. I did feel that the research emphasis in this project was very beneficial to the students as it helped me teach them where to find reliable and accurate sources, however having them actually attempt to complete the project in my mind was unrealistic. I only have 30 some students and I can't imagine trying to monitor their progress let alone if I had a larger group. The concept of the project is a fantastic idea but we have all learned just because it looks good on paper doesn't necessarily mean that it will actually work the way you want it to.
Another exciting project that has been in the works and I should be able to share with you soon is my blended delivery project so stay tuned as I will be sharing soon on the overall design and outcome!
