Field+Based+Activities+December

Short months are extremely busy, and this one is no exception. I began by posting a "brag" about some of my fellow teachers on our Technology Forum to share how they were using some of the skills and activities that I had presented in their classrooms. The other TICs in the district have access to this forum to share with teachers at their campuses. I have been blogging and moderating comments with my students for a couple of months now, and never thought about how this tool can be used as an assessment of higher order thinking skills. I have constantly been asking them questions, but just never really put it together with the higher levels of Bloom's until I read the article by Andrew Churches "Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally". I finished up the month by creating several examples of the technology application activities to show the different grade levels. There are different activities and templates provided with each unit for teachers to use as another means of publishing and sharing what they know. I always make sure to copy my site mentor on anything I send electronically so that she can see what I am working on with the staff. See the links for this month's report.