Blog #14: Group Lesson Plan from Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX)

My group chose a lesson plan on living things called "What is Alive?' We chose this lesson plan because it fit well with a prior project and we could, and did, use that as a springboard. I voulentered to do the interactive powerpoint to redeem myself in my own eyes. The interactive powerpoint I did was not creative or fun enough to satisfy me. I focused on these points for this project and it turned out much better than my first.

As for the lesson, it was originally by Melissa Smith from Lanett City. It does many things differently and doesn't utilize as much technology as ours, but I think it still works well. The only technology I saw was an online quiz the class took on the internet, but that could have been accomplished just as easily through paper and pencil testing.

Here is a link to the ALEX Lesson Plan:

http://alex.state.al.us/lesson_view.php?id=13326

Blog #13: The process of creating the Interactive Power Point

Here is the link to my interactive power point:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2ez3959jcunazk4dFBUQTRQNXM

The interactive power point was another fun project in this class, though I've come to expect that at this point. Once again I really struggled with what material I wanted to cover with the technology I had at my disposal. I decided to go with literature and cover one of my favorite stories, The Odyssey. I thought this would give me a lot of creative freedom to interpret the assignment, but it didn't turn out quite how I imagined. I expected it to be much cuter than it turned out to be. I even got so discouraged near the end that I almost started over. I actually did but I realized that I didn't have enough time to flesh out an entirely new idea and I focused on finishing Odysseus's.
I f I were to do it again, I think I would come at it from another angle. Many of my classmates did unique spins on preexisting games, which was an adorable idea, that I will incorporate next time. In addition, I showed my teacher something I did in another class where I used a green screen effect with a monster that would have fit well with this assignment. If I had more time with I would have loved to add that is for a laugh or two.
As it is, I had a lot of fun with this assignment and I am proud of the end result. This is definitely a piece of technology that I can see myself using in my future classroom.