iBook Final Project Summary

For our final project in EDM 310 we were asked to either make a Prezi, or an iBook that summarized our group's work in this class. My group, the Athens group, decided to do an iBook. Getting everything together was no a problem, we actually had the most problem picking a theme. I know, it sounds silly, but so much of an iBook revolves around what theme is picked. The moment we decided what our theme would be was when we were writing our group essay on the future of printed books in classroom. We decided on fairytales and classic children's stroies based off of books. I have included a screenshot of that page of the book to the right. We called out final iBook "Once Upon a Time in EDM 310.

We did many subtle things in our book to keep with the theme, for example in the screenshot above we have our essay on the future of printed books in the classroom. In our essay we advocated the need for printed books in classrooms, and we mirrored our words with a scene from Beauty and the Beast. It's the scene where Belle is singing about how great books are, we thought it was only fitting. I could go on and on about the little things here and there that we did to make our iBook, but I would rather show you. I have included several pages of our iBook below, so enjoy!

Blog Post #16-Final Reflection

This has definitly been an interesting semester for me. Going into this class I thought that I was technologically literate, and if I was not then I feel I am now. I learned lots of new things in this class that I plan to use in my future classroom, and I am thankful for learning them. In my final reflection I go into a little more detail about my personal experiences in EDM 310, and what I will take from it. Please follow the link below to view my final reflection.

C4T

For this week's C4T I was assigned to Heidi Siwak's blog, 21 Century Classroom: The Amaryllis. Her most recent post was a video she made of a class discussion called, My 7s Explain How they Learn from Each Other. In this video she is asking her class what a disagreement is, and what they can learn about it. Her students were eager to say that not all disagreement is negative, it sometimes just means that they appreciate your point of view but they want it to change it a little for the bwtter. One thing one student said that I really agree with is that if no one ever disagrees with you, or corrects you, then you will never get better at what you are doing. They also said that when you are looking for constructive feedback, you should ask several different people to get differing opinions. Their teacher was eager to agree with all of these points.

In Heidi Siwak's blog post, "The Inner Sanctum: My Visit to the LNS," she discussed how she had recently been invited to take part in a think tank with several other professionals. In this think tank several types of problems were discssed like "What is the role of the teacher in inquiry?" Teachers everywhere seem to have questions like this one. This think tank was created to help discuss and hopefully solve a few of these problems. Heidi Siwak was very thankful for being invited to this and to have a chance to speak for herself and teacher's everywhere.