Inspiration Project

Lesson Planning

Whew... Lesson planning was a whole different thing for me to try to figure out! Since I am not an Education major, I've never made a lesson plan before. This assignment was a little different for the Interpreters. We were asked to plan a lesson as if we were teaching a workshop to teachers about how to use interpreters correctly. There are several different parts to lesson planning such as the materials that you will need prior to the workshop and the resources that you will be using. This assignment was very difficult for me because I couldn't really get a good understanding on what the point of the workshop was. In my lesson plan I taught the teachers a lot of basic signs that they could use with their students and also basic conversational phrases. I feel that this really helps them connect with their deaf students and that they have abilities to communicate without the interpreter!

Google Docs

This was the first time that I've used Google Docs! I used it for my scavenger hunt presentation and it was very user friendly and fun to play around with! I found that the presentation part of Google Docs is very similar to powerpoint presentations which was helpful! After I signed into my Google account I typed in Google Docs and in the left corner I went to presentation. The format was already really familiar because the similarities of powerpoint. After I was finished with my presentation I hit the share button in the top right hand corner and hit the embed option. This provided me the HTML code that enabled me to put the slideshow on my blog!

I think Google Docs is a great resource to have because you can create many different presentation and documents and they are all saved under the same account! Teachers could use this to organize their worksheets and presentations! It's a great way to stay organized!

Scavenger Hunt

SCAVENGER HUNT DAY!! It's everyone's favorite? Why? You get to meet new people, get out of the classroom and be loud if you want! I think that a picture scavenger hunt is a great idea for younger students. They normally have a ton of pent up energy and would love to get up and move around. I think that other aspects about the activity are really important. I think that it encompasses problem solving skills because you have to talk through different questions that each person has. It also helps with social skills and learning to engage with other people! With a deaf child this would present very little issues. The interpreter would obviously have to go in the group with the child but this might also facilitate more conversation between the hearing and the deaf students.

Scavenger Hunt Presentation

Using images in the classroom

Although I will not have my own classroom, I found that this assignment was fun and helpful. Our assignment was revolved around taking or finding different photos and uploading them into Picasa. I had never heard of Picasa before this assignment. Picasa has a feature where you can upload pictures to different collections and it groups them for you. Within each digital collection there is an option to create a slideshow and embed it into different areas on the web. This is what I've done on my previous post. This assignment really showed me that I am not as good with technology as I thought. It was difficult for me upload and resize different images from different places and also trying to figure out how to save them in a JPEG... which what does that even mean? Anyway, it got a bit confusing for me. But! When all was said and done, I survived the uploading mania and my slideshow was posted to the correct place. I'm not sure if the resizing that I tried was successful. 

Using these types of things in the classroom would be a lot of fun for students. Having them create these slideshows with allow them to learn how to use technology better and also give them a sense of creative control with the projects that they do. All around a good assignment, a bit stressful, but I learned a lot!

Picasa Slideshow