Module+6+Reflection

My technology experience this week:

**Description**: Next week I will be going to Columbus as a presenter for the OAPCS Conference. Andrea and I will be presenting Community Circle which is just a part of Tribes.

**Impact**: When I originally sent out the proposal to present, I was not going to need any technology because I was proposing to just do a community circle with the participants and explain what it is, why should we use it, and the basic 4 rules of community circle: Active listening, right to pass. mutual respect, and no put downs. However, I decided to add a Prezi to use before the community circle, as an intro and then to close the presentation up with some more helpful information about the theory behind tribes.

I was pretty happy with what I had done, but wanted to make it better. After reading some of the Tribes literature I had been sent, it is very clear that they have a student centered vision for teaching in the 21st century. They emphasize how important it is to hear what the students have to say. So I thought about this for a while. I originally wanted to have the topic, "What motivates you?" But after reading and thinking about how to make it better, I decided to have three choices for our community circle: 1)What motivates you? 2) How do I integrate technology into my classroom/workplace? 3) I prepare my students for the 21st century by... Using polleverywhere.com, I was able to integrate technology, while getting the overall voice of the "student." From doing the presentation like this, I am getting the participants actively involved, and using a topic that they predominately chose from using the data collected from the poll.

**Intent**: I intend on not only sharing what community circle is with the participants, but model how to integrate technology into a lesson. I feel it is important to teach someone else in a way that you would want them to teach to their students. My hope is that the participants will leave the session and be able to incorporate some part of what we had done, or at least gain ideas from other professionals that were in our Community Circle.

I also intend on using this presentation as one of my field experiences.