Week 11 Reflection

This week was extremely busy. Our Oltak team created the Survivalcraft Teacher Training Website. It can be found here: Survivalcraft Teacher Training

My section of the website was on MinecraftEdu. I explained the controls to use and all of the teacher tools teachers would have access to during the game. I went into the world and took screen shots and created tutorial videos on how to use each tool. I started each page with an explanation of the tool, showed a picture or a tutorial video on how to use the tool, bullet points on using the tool and ended with a challenge for the teachers to do. The challenge is supposed to provide evidence and assessment the teacher understands the tool. Teachers are supposed to upload screenshots of the evidence to our Survival Craft Google Community.

I have never used weebly before to create a website, I have to say it's my favorite. I will be using weebly from now on. It is extremely easy to design and add links to pages, upload videos from youtube add audio to your postings...etc Excellent tool I learned this week. I am very pleased with our online training website we created. Everyone broke off and created their own section. We finalized tonight (on Easter) the sections and reviewed over them to make sure it looked professional for the teachers. I worked with Mia and read over her section and checked for any grammatical errors. We had a few areas that needed work. The bullets were not lining up correctly after being uploaded and the links for some of the resources were not linked correctly. We worked extremely late and were able to finalize the website with no errors. The other item I found was on the assessment page, the beginning page was completely blank. I quickly filled in the page and wrote a getting started section for teachers to know where to access the rubrics for Survivalcraft. While reviewing the website, I noticed there wasn't any "About Us" section. We had one on our Givercraft website and it's in the standards rubric we're following. I created an About Us page and was able to upload three biographies. I emailed the rest of the team and asked them to upload a biography and a small picture to the website before we sent the link to teachers.

I hope the teachers use this training. Last time for the Giver we had hardly any teachers attend our live training. It would be pretty disappointing if they didn't use this website. It would be a lot of time that was used for nothing. I shouldn't say that, our team did learn a lot on creating an online course and training for teachers. I hope it gets used...

This week for my diffi tool I plan on creating a chest with my team in MinecraftEdu. I also plan on viewing and assessing if teachers have any questions on the tool they are learning from their post in the Survival Craft Google Community. I hope the teachers complete the challenges and understand how to use the tool. I'm looking forward to this week and seeing what the response is from the teachers.