Friday, October 19, 2007

Granite Technical School

Okay - this was by far the coolest visit ever. First of all the school is incredible - by far the nicest facilities I've been in yet. The teacher was awesome - he was running 2 classes at once - they were made up of student from high schools all across the district. It was a really relaxed classroom environment and the students were just working on their own most of the time. The teacher was doing some awesome things I want to do when I teach.
He had recorded all his longer lectures about how to use Maya and posted them online so the students could watch them again as a tutorial if they were lost.
He was using the moodle incredible efficiently - he said this was his main source of contact with the students. He also interviewed them once a semester to build solid relationships and talk about grades.
He posted all their work online on a public website so they could show it off to friends. He did this rather than printing out everything they make. This saved on printing costs, but he also told them that if they made something really incredible he would print it off and mount it somewhere in the class.
The students work was incredible - they were making things that I could never make. It was awesome - by far the best one I've seen. Pretty much there wasn't anything that I would change about that whole set up.
Posted by Scotty B at 7:24 AM

1 comment:

gaw said...

Scott is a pretty awesome teacher. Glad you had the chance to go up there.

October 22, 2007 at 8:33 AM

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