It was, possibly, the best class we've had. Everyone was present with no serious technical glitches (although Angela was about 10 minutes late because she was waiting in the wrong classroom [the wrong date] and Kelly's web-cam didn't work). The first hour was very productive, as I discussed their third lesson plans (which was supposed to be the work of last Wednesday!!!). This was a nice chance from last week, where Wednesday was full of headaches on my side, and Friday the webserver was down.
The second hour was, in some respects, less productive because students hadn't completed the assignments (Scrivener Observation Tasks #4 & #5 for the MATL-2 video). I spent a bit of time talking about the expectations of those two observation tasks walking through the forms, why they should be useful for the students in developing their observation skills for their classmate's videos and their own classroom development. On the other hand, students had discussion time the last few minutes of the class, when they could ask questions and let me know of problems (for example, I needed to unlock the late submissions for the first two lesson plan critiques because a student had only submitted in the forum rather than also in the assignment).
In the copy of the class whiteboard (below) we noted things students need to know for the remaining weeks of the class. Not listed here are the portfolios, which we discussed briefly, which are discussed more fully in the moodle assignments. There is also information on my yousendit account (blurred for this blog), and all students saved this page on their own computers so they can use my account for this purpose
Look at the teaching timetable below for revisions to the teaching timetable (addition of the last week of February). We will meet those days in the classroom for February 14th. Meeting time is 8:30am (8:45? )til 9:15 or 9:30 Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. But if students get their videos done earlier, hopefully we can skip Wednesday.
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