Friday, May 20, 2011

End of year blahs

It is that time of the year again. The time where students, teachers, parents, and especially Seniors begin to look towards the end of the school year  and completion of their tasks. I know that it is a very stressful time for those Globaloria students doing their presentations and their teachers who are pushing and prodding them to do their best.
I am proud of how my students tried to do their best in their presentations. They worked very hard the last several weeks and tried as hard as they could to complete their games. For the most part anyway. Their were a few that could have done more but they will have to live with that and will always know that they could have done better. Since these will always be posted the students know that viewers will always be able to see what they have accomplished, be it great or just so-so.
I have learned a great deal this year in Globaloria and I have many ideas on how I will change up my teaching/facilitating of this course for next year. That is the goal, right? To be always striving to do better, or that is my thought anyway; if a teacher is not always trying to do better than it is time to call it a day.
So in closing, here are the video blogs from my 3 teams concerning their process on their game designs: