Bitter sweet experience today

Good Evening

It is a bitter sweet experience today.
I was happy to attend the follow up session and also sad as it is going to be the last one.
I enjoyed listening to all teachers their innovative experiences this year and how they are using the technology they learnt in GAETI in their classroom.
Robotics session was cool and want to introduce robotics in my class room and also participate in Robotics competitions.
Heard first time about Pad lets and flip-grid. And will use them in my class room as my Principal in insisting us to use google classroom next academic year.

Overall i had a great experience in 2017 GAETI. 

First Follow Up 9-3017

It was nice to come back for a follow up session for GAETI !!!!!
I was ready to learn Grant writing  and Dr. Bracey gave very important and useful information about grant writing and made us write a sample grant writing, which gave me confidence to try to write for a grant. The information about the organizations which give grants also is very useful.
 Second half of the day just flew away learning coding. Mrs. Kim introduced us to coding and very useful coding websites , which i can use in my classroom.  I also enjoyed the activity building a foundation, where we have to use different strategies to hold a book on the foundation we have build using toothpicks and gummy bears.
This session was really helpful and I learnt  something new !!!!

Looking forward for the next session.

Day 20 GAETI

Last day at last.
It was a bitter sweet experience as i happy it is over but will miss all the Professors and also the teacher's i interacted with.
The day went well with all presentations and also greetings from the Professors.
Can't wait to come back.

Day 19 GAETI

Can't believe that it is almost over !!!!
Feels like GAETI started yesterday. Time flew by quickly as we were so much involved in this workshop that i didn't feel like it is the 19th day.
Today the day started with our art work presentation to the class. We have two visitors to monitor the workshop. As each teacher was presenting the art work and they will use that art work in their classroom, the visitors and Dr.Latham were very impressed. I presented mine and explained that i will use the art work to introduce lab equipment, as it is an important topic before i take the students to the lab. So they will identify the equipment, name it and tell why it is used for with the lab equipment.
The rest of the day i worked on my e- portfolio , as i have to present it tomorrow. I worked on my lesson plan section, which took almost 3 hours, technology page and work sample page.

Day 18 GAETI

It is day 18 !!!!!!!!!!

The started with a production of presentation where Dr.Latham discussed and demonstrated how to create business as an extra income. We loaded the software, learned some features about the business exploration. I worked on my weebly page the rest of the time till lunch time. Second half of the day started with an interaction lecture with Dr. Talya. She shared and discussed about how to take care of ourselves during our busy schedules. I learned about the stress levels by doing a checklist and realized that i have an average levels in all stress levels. We interacted with a person in Brazil and learned many things about their culture, education system and lifestyle

Day 17 GAETI

The day started with creating info graph using Piktograph, where i created pages using the data given by Dr, lee. I created pie graph, bar graph and line graph to show the estimate readers and estimated income for a U.S daily newspaper. Then we moved to work on creating a audio video by creating three slides, where i included information about my class introduction for the first day and added voice to the video. We worked on our Weebly portfolio web page from 11.30 till 3.00 P.M. I tried to complete all the pages i created in Weebly. Added links to my work sample page for the work i finished. Added links to the technology page. I am left only with my lesson plan. We went to library to learn about Prezi essentials and how to use Prezi in the classroom by Ms.Stephanie Agnew.Learned how to create slides, embed a video in Prezi. Prezi is cool to use in the classoom , rather than the regular powerpoint. Students are going to love it!!!
In Prezi yo can zoom in and zoom out of the slides.

Day 16 GAETI

Can't believe that we are already into the last week of the workshop.
The day started with a discussion on how to use I Pads in the classroom by Ms.Stephanie Agnew. She shared some very good and important websites that we can use in the classroom on the I Pads. , like pocket body lite, video science, ever note, google maps etc. Unfortunately at my school I don't have I pads. But I may  get some in future.  Anyway the information is always useful.
Dr.Lee demonstrated how to create a story on Adobe spark adding pictures, videos and grid show. Then we creates our with a tile "Where are you from"?. I create a story of where i came from adding the text, pictures, video and also grid show of the places i grew up ,went to school and college.And some site seeing places. Then Dr.Lee demonstrated -how to create a newspaper. For which we worked in groups and selected some current events in Science and prioritized them to make a newspaper. We made a catchy title for each of the article and created a travel doc and summarized our article and posted it in the canvas. The article i worked on was "Need to fix heart attack!! Try photosynthesis", an article talking about using plants processing photosynthesis to cure heart attacks.Worked on the Weebly to complete my e-portfolio.I updated technology, work sample pages. I also learned how to insert web links to my pages from YouTube and Adobe Spark.