Learning Through Other Presentations

Today was a great opportunity for me and my other classmates in Science Methods. Each of us created our own ThingLink interactive lesson plans based off of our unit plan topics. Even though me and my 2 group members shared very similar information, our lessons were incredibly different on the ThingLink platform. We were prompted to include the link and information to our ThingLink lesson into this power point presentation for the entire class to view. Along with the link to the interactive lesson, we had to include a picture of ourselves, name of the lesson, picture of the ThingLink, our certification program, description of the purpose of the lesson and a quote about teaching science. What we were supposed to do was get up to the front of the class and present each of our ThingLink lessons and receive comments and feedback. What our professor decided to do was let fieldwork groups one and two and three and four get together and show our lessons to each other. We each got the opportunity to click through each other's lesson and explore the different aspects of it. Viewing everyone's lessons was a great opportunity because I got to personally see how different and creative everyone's lessons were! Along with viewing each lesson, we provided comments to one another in this document. Rather than be rushed to jot down three pluses and one wish in a discussion post, having the time to really think about our comments and write them down on our own time was very beneficial. Also, having the access to explore each other's lessons on our own time was better than seeing a presentation. A lot of the presentations were very similar when it came to linking to articles, videos, and much more for the students to complete, so a presentation of each one would have been very repetitive. It was rewarding to see how creative some of the teacher candidate's got with their own personal lessons. I got access to many new ideas that I never heard of that I will definitely use with my future students. This ThingLink interactive lesson was a completely different concept that I was never used to, but opened the doors to so many new opportunities! I learned to love this program and think of many different creative ways to make an outstanding lesson. I really enjoyed seeing everyone else's lessons as well, just to see how they handled this new approach. Learning through other presentations is a great way to get new ideas for your own teaching!