pdPoint--If pdPoint was not an ITP requirement, do you think it would be a useful independent learning tool for you? ...for most teachers? Why or why not?
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I found that it was hard to wade through all the information only to find out that the lesson wasn't relevent to what I was teaching. The PD Points are long and many times I am looking for something shorter and to the point. I also did not enough choice of lessons that applied to what I need to teach. So in conclusion, I don't think I would use it very often. Kathy S.
I think that you could direct people to pdPoint and have them check it out. Then the people who have a lot of free time could go through and find usefull lessons and activites that would be helpful in their teaching. I think it took too much time to complete the activites for me to go and try it again.
I found that it was hard to wade through all the information only to find out that the lesson wasn't relevent to what I was teaching. The PD Points are long and many times I am looking for something shorter and to the point. I also did not find enough choices for different lessons that applied to what I need to teach. So in conclusion, I don't think I would use it very often. Kathy S.
If it was not a requirement I would not use it. I like using the activbook readers for the students but I do not like the proffessional ones for me! It was way to hard and way to much work for what I could ever use in the classroom. It is too cumbersome to use with the amount of work that we have to get through with the regular curriculum.I wasted too much time wading through the material.
The particular Anytime class I took wasn't very helpful to me. I took the class, "Games"--Word, and I found it to be very cumbersome. It was so, so, so detail oriented--constructing the word search and crossword--I became bored and frustrated rather quickly. I suppose it doesn't help that I teach kindergarten and the projects I had to construct were for much older students. I have to tell you -- my kindergarten teacher heart just wasn't in it. I do love Active Book Reader though! I use it quite often with my kids in the computer lab. In summary, I don't care for Pd Point--at least the class I took- but I love many Active Book lessons.
I don't think I would take the time to use the pdPoint classes if not an ITP requirement because I found the one I took to be very time intensive. I accomplished my goal, and am glad I can do it on my own now, but wish it could have been done more effeciently. I can't speak for all teachers, but I know that time is something we all wish we had more of.
I found that it was hard to wade through all the information only to find out that the lesson wasn't relevent to what I was teaching. The PD Points are long and many times I am looking for something shorter and to the point. I also did not enough choice of lessons that applied to what I need to teach. So in conclusion, I don't think I would use it very often. Kathy S.
The class I took was about 2-3 hours long to learn how to create a game template. Even after I was done, I did not have a completed game template. I loved learning how to do different skills,but the class did not teach me enough skills to enable me to do it again. (I did copy and paste the lessons in word so I can try to do it again at another time.) It would be great to be able to do these classes during the summer when we have more time. It's unfortunate that only ITP people get to do them also, and not the whole district. Having teachers do these classes in the middle of the year along with teaching is somewhat unrealistic and overburdensome. That being said, I hope that it will be available to us in the future when we have more time.
I actually liked pdPoint BUT it was really difficult to determine which anytime workshop or teacher led class would be appropriate for my class. Consequently, I ended up beginning 6-7 classes and went half way through before deciding whether it would be helpful for me. I deleted the classes on my list that I didn't find useful. My only complaint is that some of the anytime workshops have so many components and projects before you have mastered that lesson. It took a lot of time to complete. There are some good ideas that I can tweak for my 4th class though.
I really didn't want to take any teacher-led classes because I liked the fact I could do as much or as little as I wanted on each lesson. I found the self-paced books good to use and picked up a few tricks and "ahas" I didn't know in some of the programs I use almost daily.
If it was not a requirement I would not use it. It took WAY too much time and was too cumbersome. I needed a much more basic introduction to blogging than was offered for the blogging class. By the time I got through I was possibly more confused about making a blog then before.
activating prior knowledge - I liked creating the memory tree . . . instead of a tree I made a star. I think that at a primary level there often isn't much knowledge to activate so I would use the memory star during the lesson . . . as a recording sheet to scaffold my kiddo's thinking.
I think that the computer piece . . . typing on the recording sheet is a little cumbersome for first graders. I plan to have table groups take turns filling out the recording sheet next week as we begin our continent unit.
Although the activating prior knowledge class was written for older kids . . . I had fun applying it to first grade.
The PdPoint is NOT something I would ever use for first grade. After spending several hours making something for this assignment I realized the only thing I took away is using MS Word 97; some of the features were new to me. I most longer will NOT EVER use any of the PdPoints for first grade.
It might be more useful to intermediate teachers...I had a hard time finding something that I would actually use with my first grade students. I also thought that it was very time consuming.
I felt like it took a lot longer to create the workseet using the PDpoint tutorial than it would have taken for me to just create something on my own. Maybe I just didn't pick the best tutorial. Having instruction from you (ITP staff) is more valuable and useful than PD in my opinion.
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I found that it was hard to wade through all the information only to find out that the lesson wasn't relevent to what I was teaching. The PD Points are long and many times I am looking for something shorter and to the point. I also did not enough choice of lessons that applied to what I need to teach. So in conclusion, I don't think I would use it very often.
Kathy S.
I think that you could direct people to pdPoint and have them check it out. Then the people who have a lot of free time could go through and find usefull lessons and activites that would be helpful in their teaching. I think it took too much time to complete the activites for me to go and try it again.
I found that it was hard to wade through all the information only to find out that the lesson wasn't relevent to what I was teaching. The PD Points are long and many times I am looking for something shorter and to the point. I also did not find enough choices for different lessons that applied to what I need to teach. So in conclusion, I don't think I would use it very often.
Kathy S.
I would not use pdpoint professional. I don't feel that it was of any benefit to me in terms of improving the quality of my instruction.
Peggy
If it was not a requirement I would not use it. I like using the activbook readers for the students but I do not like the proffessional ones for me! It was way to hard and way to much work for what I could ever use in the classroom. It is too cumbersome to use with the amount of work that we have to get through with the regular curriculum.I wasted too much time wading through the material.
The particular Anytime class I took wasn't very helpful to me. I took the class, "Games"--Word, and I found it to be very cumbersome. It was so, so, so detail oriented--constructing the word search and crossword--I became bored and frustrated rather quickly. I suppose it doesn't help that I teach kindergarten and the projects I had to construct were for much older students. I have to tell you -- my kindergarten teacher heart just wasn't in it. I do love Active Book Reader though! I use it quite often with my kids in the computer lab. In summary, I don't care for Pd Point--at least the class I took- but I love many Active Book lessons.
I don't think I would take the time to use the pdPoint classes if not an ITP requirement because I found the one I took to be very time intensive. I accomplished my goal, and am glad I can do it on my own now, but wish it could have been done more effeciently. I can't speak for all teachers, but I know that time is something we all wish we had more of.
I found that it was hard to wade through all the information only to find out that the lesson wasn't relevent to what I was teaching. The PD Points are long and many times I am looking for something shorter and to the point. I also did not enough choice of lessons that applied to what I need to teach. So in conclusion, I don't think I would use it very often.
Kathy S.
The class I took was about 2-3 hours long to learn how to create a game template. Even after I was done, I did not have a completed game template. I loved learning how to do different skills,but the class did not teach me enough skills to enable me to do it again. (I did copy and paste the lessons in word so I can try to do it again at another time.) It would be great to be able to do these classes during the summer when we have more time. It's unfortunate that only ITP people get to do them also, and not the whole district. Having teachers do these classes in the middle of the year along with teaching is somewhat unrealistic and overburdensome. That being said, I hope that it will be available to us in the future when we have more time.
I actually liked pdPoint BUT it was really difficult to determine which anytime workshop or teacher led class would be appropriate for my class. Consequently, I ended up beginning 6-7 classes and went half way through before deciding whether it would be helpful for me. I deleted the classes on my list that I didn't find useful. My only complaint is that some of the anytime workshops have so many components and projects before you have mastered that lesson. It took a lot of time to complete. There are some good ideas that I can tweak for my 4th class though.
I really didn't want to take any teacher-led classes because I liked the fact I could do as much or as little as I wanted on each lesson. I found the self-paced books good to use and picked up a few tricks and "ahas" I didn't know in some of the programs I use almost daily.
If it was not a requirement I would not use it. It took WAY too much time and was too cumbersome. I needed a much more basic introduction to blogging than was offered for the blogging class. By the time I got through I was possibly more confused about making a blog then before.
activating prior knowledge - I liked creating the memory tree . . . instead of a tree I made a star. I think that at a primary level there often isn't much knowledge to activate so I would use the memory star during the lesson . . . as a recording sheet to scaffold my kiddo's thinking.
I think that the computer piece . . . typing on the recording sheet is a little cumbersome for first graders. I plan to have table groups take turns filling out the recording sheet next week as we begin our continent unit.
Although the activating prior knowledge class was written for older kids . . . I had fun applying it to first grade.
The PdPoint is NOT something I would ever use for first grade. After spending several hours making something for this assignment I realized the only thing I took away is using MS Word 97; some of the features were new to me. I most longer will NOT EVER use any of the PdPoints for first grade.
It might be more useful to intermediate teachers...I had a hard time finding something that I would actually use with my first grade students. I also thought that it was very time consuming.
I felt like it took a lot longer to create the workseet using the PDpoint tutorial than it would have taken for me to just create something on my own. Maybe I just didn't pick the best tutorial. Having instruction from you (ITP staff) is more valuable and useful than PD in my opinion.
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