Week 4 - "I'm Halfway Gone and I'm on My Way"

     I think the title of this week's blog entry is very applicable to the milestone we have reached as a class, and if you cannot figure out who sang these lyrics, no need to despair, it was Lifehouse.
     WOW!  I know this may sound contradictory to my sentiments about this class but "time flies when you're having fun", because at the conclusion of tonight's class, we will be halfway over with the semester!  This week we spent going over the final two presentations (we were the final group to present).  For those of you who didn't know, from the time the topic was assigned, to the day before it was due, I had a struggle trying to grasp the concept of what tools (technological & pedagogical) for encouraging integrated learning precisely was.  The night before presentation day, I spent what seemed an eternity on the computer looking up examples of each type of tool and looking up different definitions of what each word was (pedagogical, technological, and integrated learning), so I would feel confident that I knew what I was talking about when we presented our presentation.  So, with that in mind, I think I did a pretty good job, eh?  On a side note, on behalf of our group, we apologize for the lengthiness of our presentation, and stealing an extra 10 minutes away from Tiffany, but somehow the logging of time in the head got lost. 
     Once everyone finished with their presentations, and when everyone else handed in their graded rubrics, Tiffany changed gears on us and passed out a proposed blueprint of what the class will look like and function this coming Fall.  She gave us about 15-20 minutes to read the proposal in its entirety, and to then brainstorm ideas, and categorize them based on a table she manually created on the whiteboard, and divided the table into three different phases (phase one: self-reflection, phase two: integration, phase three: final product).  Part of our homework is to come up with cohesive activities that would last about an hour or so directly related to the phase we chose.  This seems like it would be fun to figure out these activities, but also very time consuming, but only time will tell. 
     More to come as the final four weeks unravel....☺