My Technological Journey Continued

Another week, another awesome Tech class! This week we explored making PowToons. PowToon is another amazing tool on the Internet that can aid students in expressing their ideas. PowToons are also a treat tool for teachers to engage their students in what they are presenting. You can also use PowToon to enhance your flipped classroom, if that is something that you are experimenting with! Providing the information on PowToon for students to learn at home will really engage them, compared to a document with writing on it. I have had minimal difficulties with PowToon, most of them arose from no having enough experience using it! Now that I have used it a few times, I can correct my mistakes and hopefully use it with ease! Here is the PowToon that I made about Genius Hour:

We also had more time to work on Genius Hour this week (see my previous post about my Genius Hour topic). I learned that I definitely have a large task ahead of me. American Sign Language (ASL) is very different grammatically and syntactically from English, which I discovered is a hard mindset to get into after speaking English for my whole life. I have started to learn individual signs corresponding to English words (i.e. how to sign "dog" or "mother"). A question that arose from this weeks work is; should I re-evaluate my goals for my Genius Hour project? I think that I should focus more on words and basic sentences. I have picked up more words faster than I thought I would so I might need to adjust this now. I need to continue practicing signs that I have already learned so I do not forget them, and continue to learn more signs!

Talk to you soon!