Development of GAME plan...

The development of my personal GAME plan has begun to take shape over these last few weeks and even looking into 2012 and beyond. A few options have presented themselves and I am looking forward to these opportunities that I have been given.

The school district that I currently work in has recently begun using the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. In doing so, I was able to attend a short in-service presentation given by a local advocate of this method. She was very well-spoken and gave a lot of great ideas for teachers to reach out to their students in a more meaningful and worthwhile way. This was something that I had said I wanted to research more (The idea of more in-service opportunities) and being able to connect more within the community.

In addition to the aforementioned, we have begun to progress nicely with our PLC collaboration on Wednesdays within our school. We are currently looking into ways on putting the Social Studies curriculum on our school's website and becoming more transparent as a school district. In addition to this, I have begun to use the website Quizlet as an extension of my classroom to be used as a study guide before tests. This is a great site to use because it offers review games, the ability for the computer to read back vocabulary words and also offers a variety of ways for students to study. Here is my link to the site:

http://quizlet.com/user/rschupp/

 In response to the following questions, here are my answers.

• Are you finding the information and resources you need? 

 For the most part, yes. Once my Master's degree is complete, I will have many opportunities for expanding my knowledge of teaching/content/technology and my school district is willing and able to offer these opportunities.

• Do you need to modify your action plan? 

 In taking a look at the technology that I have used so far, I feel that I have a solid foundation, but can surely improve as the year progresses.

• What have you learned so far? 

  Keeping up with all the facets of technology is fun, but hard work!

• What new questions have arisen?

None at this time, but I would like to ask my students for input on ways I can use technology more as an extension of the classroom.