This year's 20% Time Projects are starting to roll in my first hour class. Students have done some brainstorming and research and made presentations to the class about their project details such as their goal/accomplishment they wish to achieve and their plan to use class time on FLEX days to make that happen. We are in the process of getting our blog pages set up, and once they are all set and ready to go, I will share those out to anyone interested.
For my own students reading this, I've been in contact with Mr. Provenzano (the teacher whose student blogs you checked out earlier in the year) and we'll share our students blog links with each other so that you can follow along with their progress as well as having other students following along with what you're doing. This should be a great year of big things happening in first hour.
For my own 20% Time project, I'll be working alongside my students on a project of my own. I had already planned on pursuing a Google Teacher Certification this year. A fantastic opportunity has come up from our ESD to offer support for the first portion of this journey with help in taking Google's courses and passing the exams to become a Google Educator. Once this step is complete, my time will be focused on implementation and experimenting with more of Google's Apps and preparing an application for one of the yet to be announced Google Teacher Academy sessions next year.
Stay tuned here for reflections on my students' work as well as progress updates on my own 20% Time Project.
This whole 20 time thing was confusing at first, but it kinda makes more sense, and depending on what your project is it may be hard. Especially with my project finding funny and stupid pictures is not that easy. But its a work in progress.
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