Day 12: Today was a good day. We started out the day learning how to write an effective lesson plan. Dr. Huang presented an excellent lecture. She broke down the process of lesson planning so that it will not be too difficult for us to complete this task. Also, she introduced us to Plickers and IF AT cards. These tools can be used as a formative assessments to check for understanding and to evaluate how well the content is being learned by the students. We ended the lecture with a showcase of what we learned on lesson planning by developing a lesson plan for school. After this task we worked in groups to decide which lesson plan was the best and we voted on the best. We had two winners, April and Tanisha. After lunch we continued to work on our multimedia project with Ms. Latham. She showed us how to cut, grind, and fuse glass that will be used in our project. Also, I spent the majority of my time in art cutting out my project. This is a tedious process and I will be partaking in this step for several days. At the end of the day, Dr. Huang showed us how to access Plickers and we setup an account for later usage. I definitely plan to use this low-tech tool to assess my students in class. After presenting a lesson I need to know what needs to be retaught and this tool can help me make that determination. Also, Dr. Huang showed us Wordle and told us the bigger words indicates a trend. Lastly, she showed us dipity. This is a timeline tool. The last tool she showed was bubbl.us. This tool creates concept maps.
I tried to create a sample concept map and here it is:

All of the tools Dr. Huang showed today are very practical. I will continue to play with these apps so that I can show the general education teacher as well as my students. All in all today was a great day!