This week was pretty relaxed. Before the presentations began, Tiffany introduced all of us to a program called "RubiStar," which is a free online database, where teachers can generate quick and easy rubrics that can be later used to effectively and appropriately evaluate student work based on a broad aspect of things, from content quality to preparedness. After her schpeil about how it works, she passed around a rubric she created using the same site and asked us to take nine of the same handouts we would later use to evaluate the groups while they were presenting.
Due to time constraints, all but two groups gave their PowerPoint presentations regarding their assigned topics, and may I say how impressed I was to see how professional all of them looked and were organized, considering the time allotted to gather all of our findings these past three weeks and condense them into a 10-minute presentation. I could not believe of how many resources students have access to, whether it is a program where they can discuss their sentiments about certain things (i.e. digital storytelling), or videos they can access for a one-on-one interactive experience.
As a future educator, it was helpful for me to see all of these different tools I have authorization to access, and have available for student use, to assure all students can reach their maximum potential, meanwhile increase their proficiency in a certain subject matter, whether it is public speaking (digital sotrytelling) or improving writing competence (blogs).
More to come as the weeks unravel....☺
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