I participated in Dr. Attaway's web conference tonight. This was my first web conference for this course but I did attend one earlier in another class. This one tonight had a few technical difficulties with audio but I prefer the chat. I had audio at the very beginning and you could hear children in the background and I had problems knowing who was talking. It seemed only one person was dominating the conference but that could be part of the audio problem.
The chat session was working great and I could follow it. I appreciate hearing from other students that they had questions about the assignment. I don't think the questions were actually answered, except the one about the format. A lot of discussion was focused on "exit tickets." An exit ticket is a strategy to check for understanding at the end of the class period. Students write a short summary or answer a few questions about the day's lesson before they leave the classroom. I don't know how that became such a hot topic and hope participants learned something useful.
A web conference like this could be very useful in schools. I am in the CATE department and only the middle schools offer my class. The eight SmartLab facilitators could use this to discuss new activities and how to integrate more technology into our labs. New equipment and stations could be demonstrated by the facilitators. It would really help the newer facilitators and those of us that inherited older labs that need updating.
I will attend another conference for this course or another course. It helps to have communication with the other students. I like the questions with immediate feedback and the advice shared by students further along in the program.
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