Day 2 Reflection

Today was challenging. I got frustrated halfway through and had to take a nap (it's summer and that's totally acceptable) and then come back to it with fresh eyes. I also had the realization that this whole process takes FOREVER but once it is done, it is actually really rewarding and will be really fun and engaging for my students. I am proud of the work I have done and look forward to sharing with the group! Also, I think this is a pretty sweet assignment. And my apps are cool.

PLN time - I mostly focused on growing my PLN because that has not been much of a priority in the past. I looked at several different organizations and found lots of good resources. The highlight of the day was having people follow me back! It feels good to be realized for doing a good job. One of the resources I found was an athletic training group in Canada. I hope to be able to incorporate more collaboration for my students and help them realize that that is a huge part of the real world! I found this awesome video of a TED talk from my alma mater and it was pretty amazing. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T9TYz5Uxl0
I also read some pretty cool articles from Time and Scholastic on reading and how to help students get interested. That is kinda my thing. You would think I would be a reading or English teacher...but anyways one of the articles talked about reading aloud. That is HUGE for our students. Some of them really struggle with reading so I know if we read aloud we are all going to actually read it and more of us will comprehend what it says. We can start more discussions that way, too. As far as tech goes, I starting follow some edtech boards and specialists on twitter. But I was more interested in athletic training. :)

Your lesson and student sample - I am using a lesson on acute vs chronic vs overuse injuries for this course. I selected visme to use as our web tool. It is at the evaluate level of Bloom's and augmentation level of SAMR.