Honesty, what I have taken away from this course are all of the ideas and tools that have been presented to us or have been there for us to use. I am demo-ing ShowMe, Educreations, ScreenChomp and Doceri with one of my classes. I have shown VoiceThread to one of our Language Arts teachers, as well as Bubbl.us.
Having ideas is more than half of the battle. We all know our content and we all have lessons that we really like and others we know could be better. So having the knowledge of what is out there to help us improve our lessons, assignments, projects, and assessments is so vital to creating a balanced blended learning environment.
Since my roll is changing next year from teacher to technology integration specialist, I have also shared the SAMR model. I felt this was a good way to pace ourselves as we immerse into a 1 to 1 environment next year. There are some teachers who are excited and there are others who would rather do anything but have to change to a digital curriculum. I have tried to ease their concerns with the gradual ascension of the model. Explaining how we can start with substitution, but that we don't want to stay there we have evolve ourselves to the transformation stages.
The hardest idea for me to implement will be the authentic assessments. It requires a great deal of time. For it to work correctly, students have to take ownership of their learning. It is out of my comfort zone, so I don't know how I will push my teachers to do something I would not want to do.
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