Remember the Yellow Brick Road? (CEd0525 Week 5)

One of the first posts I made had references to my feeling like Dorothy landing in Oz and the fact that I didn't really have a handle on the journey ahead, all I knew was that I was on the yellow brick road. Well, I'm still on the road and I have a much clearer picture of where I'm going. That's not to say that I'm near the end, rather I have broken the journey into more manageable steps and sequences. This past week, I've evaluated an online lesson that reinforced my determination to incorporate more cross-curricular activities in my classroom. In addition, the opportunity to revise a current unit of mine has really been enlightening. The forensic science class that I teach was a 9 week class and starting this fall will be changed to an 18 week course. This means that many of the activities I have done in the past need to be revised and the learning deepened. Focusing on the instructional strategies and the technologies that support them through class is so timely because I need to complete the same process for the unit revision for much of the forensic science activities, lessons and units. Completing the assignment has forced me to start the process and hopefully I will get better and better at it as I progress.