As I have explained in my last few posts, I will be using a number of the tools from this course in planning and preparing materials for AP World History, Model UN and History of Thought. This course has exposed me to a number of great tools that will help me reach more kids in more diverse ways and, hopefully, improve their learning of skills and content. The tools will also allow me to vary the methods kids use to respond to assignment materials and tasks.
What I am planning will involve them applying technical tools and skills to various levels of thinking. They will also allow the kids to do many of the tasks when it is most convenient for them. Some of what I will do will allow students to test themselves until they reach minimum competency or higher. I have much thinking, planning and creating to do this summer. It will be fun.
The Thing that has been my focus for the last third of the course has been Virtual Classrooms. I am really jazzed to put together a very usable web site for my AP History course and, if I have to, plan and produce an online environment for my Model UN course. For my AP course, the kids will use the site that I created as well as the publisher's online textbook site. I have also created a Facebook group called Bacon WHAPped History as a means to communicate with my students quickly and as a container for RSS feeds on topics useful to the course. While I want them to connect to this page, I do not expect them to "friend" me unless they want to. I never "friend" a student.
I have gotten an excellent education through this course. It sparked all kinds of ideas and fired me up as a teacher to try and to do new things. I want to thank you, Ron, for modifying the generic version of this course to fit our "needs" and responsibilities here in Michigan.
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