Application. That is the question.

After reviewing what we have learnt over the last few days, I am fairly excited to see how I will be able to consolidate all that I have learnt and to put them to use when I get back to school...

1. WIHIC - The school has a Teachers Effectiveness Survey which is administered to the students at the end of the year. Some problems with this survey include the length of the survey, and the quality of questions asked... We have also included a new survey to help "evaluate" our UbD lessons.. I will seriously need to sit down and see how an instrument like WIHIC can tell me more about the classrooms and perhaps highlight areas that really need the attention. It's just the perennial problem of research vs practioner - how can the teacher do it all?

2. Wikis & Blogs - I have my geog wiki, but I have yet to fully harness it to get the students to contribute to it... Will have to work out a timeline to teach students about it and start uploading my resources on it.. The history teacher already has a blog for the class, but I suppose I could use it in a similar way it was used in the class to track students reflections.. will have to develop a rubric of sorts to see how I can evaluate their work...

3. Google Apps - seems MOE is migrating Edumail to Google.. which means that there can be sharing of info via googledocs and google forms as used in the class.. The last section on the quiz is a useful tool to use to check the students' understanding of a lesson. Immediate feedback can be given and any misconceptions can be highlighted... With the dept getting a half mobile lab, the possibilities are really there..

I am glad that the holidays are here to give me some time to think about these things.. I might just have to delay my scrapping for all these exciting things.. So many things.. so little time...