Reflection Week 6

Thomas and I just finished presenting Givercraft at ASTE 2015. What a very awesome experience that was. We were able to explain a program that we helped create. It was neat that we could talk about the different differentiating tools that we are creating this time around and also the teacher training. This week I created the teacher training module that will help us during our training this week. I took apart the minecraftEdu teacher tools website and linked each tutorial video and explanation for each tool used in MinecraftEdu. I wrote out an outline of the training and who would be doing what part. I am going to present the topics for each teacher tool and while the teachers are practicing the tools in MinecraftEdu the other team in OLTAK will be participating as students, of what not to do. I think the training will be a great experience and we will learn what we can do differently for the next time.

I commented on my peers blogs on the process of our training and what I had completed this week. I also talked with my team member and explained what I had created and asked for some feedback on the training module and which topics they would like to present. I haven't heard anything yet. We have a few responses from the needs assessment we created. A lot of the teacher tools and how to manage students was the main part teachers did not know how to do. This will be most of our training and explaining the unit plan and differentiating ideas we are creating for them. My plan next week is to create a video for the teachers to know where to locate the memory books I created for the differentiating idea.  I will add this video to the training modules and teacher folder in Google Drive. I hope teachers enjoy the training and that it goes smoothly. We haven't had very much time to work on this. Only last week we had a team meeting and decided the topics we were going to create for our training. It would be nice in the future, especially for Lord of the Flies and Maze Runner to have more than 1 team meeting or a week to design a training for the teachers. Givercraft is easy for Mia and myself, because we helped create it and know the program very well. However the other team members do not and some haven't read the Unit Plan. So I think giving everyone enough time to prepare for the training/presentation would be more effective.

Thomas, Traice and I at ASTE 2015 Anchorage, Alaska Captain Cook