Week+1+Assignments

__**Restaurant Project**__ I really enjoyed viewing the Restarant Project dealing with Integrated curriculum. The complexity of the project was amazing. I really liked the way that the students had to figure out the calories of each meal on their menu. Making the commercials looked so engaging!

The PBL website is fabulous and it has such great projects. I really liked how the teachers all worked together to plan and create meaningful lessons. It makes me wish that our school was like this. Is it possible to get my school to get on board with this? And, how would I get them to see the light. . ?

__**Social Media Addict?**__ I am not addicted to Social Media. In fact, I don't even have a Facebook account because I am worried about getting in trouble at work. I did set up an account for my husband, but he doesn't check it very often. The only reason that I check it occasionally is because I get reminders on my i-Phone from people posting new things, etc. It is fun to see pictures of friends, but it is not something that I "need" to look at every day. If I taught older students, or had older children of my own, I would probably be more invested in learning and participating more.

__**Media Education Foundation**__ This is a great site, but it really isn't geared toward the age that I teach. It would be great to have some of these videos at our own library for my own personal reference, though.

__**Medial Literacy Education**__ The site is bookmarked on my computer. It will be a great tool to get my classroom media literate.

__**PBS Digital Media Literacy**__ This site was fantastic! My favorite link, so far. There are so many great resources, it will take me several days to look at all of them. The PoducateMe site was my favorite, and will be a great resource for next week's assignment. I signed up for the 21 Century Learning Commons, very excited to get some more insight into media literacy and ways to integrate it into my lessons. Being able to communicate with other teachers through this site is wonderful! //JustThink// was very though provoking. Everything starts with education.

__**RSA Animation & Sketchcasting**__ The Sketchcasting tool is great for allowing creative interpretations.

Animation would be a great tool for those who have trouble focusing, or for use with material that was difficult to comprehend. I love those Common Craft animation videos!

I am still struggling with a topic for my key assignment. I teach two sessions of Kindergarten each day. Each session is only 2.5 hours long. In this 2.5 hours, we are required to teach 60 minutes of Open Court Reading (this is a scripted program). The rest of the time is spent at recess or in specials. I have approximately 20 minutes left over for math and 30 minutes for small group intervention time. I am pretty sure that my administration would not approve of me deviating from our Open Court Manual. So, I am thinking that I could get away with a project that deals with the alphabet. ..