Louisa

Day 1:

Having completed the Intel Essentials course (thanks Libby!) I am somewhat familiar of the structure of the course and the unit plan. The next 4 days will be great to spend some quality time to plan out a well structured unit that will allow students to use higher order thinking skills. I was really impressed with the on-line tools we were introduced to today and think they are fantastic resources. I think the biggest challenge for the week though is staying tuned in and sitting in one seat for 8 hrs a day - when I am in these situations it only reminds me how hard it must be for so many of our students!

Day 2:

Well, I really thought I made some progress with my unit plan today - particularly the curriculum framing questions and ideas for assessment. I am really keen to have students maintain a video log throughout the unit I am planning. I love the other bits and pieces I've picked up so far - going to spend some time this weekend creating a page flake (really just for the flag game!) and the information I have learnt from Anne about using wikis for student folios is extremely useful.

Day 3

Unit plan is looking good. Filled out a fair bit today, using Visual ranking and Seeing Reason tool. Quite happy with the ideas behind them, think they link in well, but probably still need some revamping. Also need to flesh out what exact learning activities I am doing- have the ideas in my head, just need to get them down. Whilst enjoying, look forward to weekend break - hope to be more refreshed on Monday!

Day 4

a lot more refreshed today! Unit plan pretty much finished and very happy with, after re-thinking some parts. Only need to now flesh out some more of the learning activities.