This week's objective was to collaborate with our group to create an ideal classroom. The goal was to produce a grant proposal justifying the use of $20,000 for technology integration in the classroom. On Monday, Elijah set up a group meeting on Zoom and we narrowed down who would focus on each part of the project and what subject we would like to use for the lesson plan. During our group discussion, we talked a lot about how we could utilize virtual reality technology to produce a lesson. A science course seemed to be provide the most to offer for the use of virtual reality technology. Throughout the week, we set goals for our group to complete the project efficiently and in a timely manner. We set up a group Google Doc for everyone to see the entire project at all times. We also set up a group Google Sheet to add technology that we felt would be beneficial in our ideal classroom. By Wednesday we all knew our roles and had a mostly final list of technology to ask for in the grant. My role on the grant proposal was to create the lesson plan. Our group chose to create an ideal science classroom, and I already teach three science courses. After doing a little research, I found a virtual reality frog dissection software for the Oculus VR headsets, which was perfect for our goals! I already teach Zoology and have a frog dissection lesson. However, my frog dissection lesson is performed on actual frogs, so I had to adapt the lesson plan to utilize technology. Utilizing technology in my classroom is difficult for me because my students only have student issued laptops. So I found my self relying on my group members to help me decide on what would be the best ways to incorporate more technology in the learning process. Carletta helped me a lot to add more to the DPA model section of the lesson plan. By putting our thoughts together, we actually were able to create a two day lesson plan that utilized quite a bit of technology! The first day students are learning everything they need to know about a frog and how to dissect it. The second day, students actually complete the dissection. During this project, I learned a lot about all of the different types of technology that can be used in the classroom. I also learned how to effectively complete a group project with people I am not actually working with in person! I can honestly say that our group really did a great job dividing and conquering in such a way that we were finished with our project by Friday night. ![]()
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Eli Morgan
6/20/2021 12:27:29 pm
Amazing work this week Sarah, and I am so proud of the work that you and our fellow group members put into this first project of ours. Your work in the lesson plan was phenomenal, and I really think your ideas on transfering a scientific lab to a virtual platform really utilized our chosen technologies nicely. I look forward to us working on future group projects together!
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Michaelah Martin
6/20/2021 06:18:17 pm
Sarah,
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Kimberly Jefferson
6/20/2021 09:49:09 pm
Hey Sara,
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Carletta S Hurt
6/26/2021 07:47:28 pm
Hi, Sarah!
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