Evaluating Your Game Plan Progress

My aim for this week is to download at least two videos about the events of Christmas and another video pertaining to culture or a topical issue. Then I plan to ask my students to listen to the videos and discuss in small groups what they have watched. I will also give my students a topic from the videos to debate the pros and cons of the target topic. Then I plan to video my students as they work in groups and make their presentation. Since my classroom is not wired with the Internet, I will need to download a program that will allow me download videos and play them while offline. This is something new for me to explore even though I have always wanted to but now I feel I need to be a more assertive digital citizen and take my game plan seriously. In the words of Mike Trout, “Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.” I believe I fall some where among those two categories but I want to gradually feel empowered to make use of what I already know and build on that which I need to know.