Wk 3 Reflection

This week has been brutal. I was out of town for the first half, and then watching my little one for the second half. So I was not able to get any of grad school work done until this weekend. AND, this weeks assignment was LOOOOOONNNNNGGGGG. It's 11:09pm and I am still working on it. This week we designed our own UDL Lesson Plan. Our group decided to cover the topic of Personal Finance and I chose to do a lesson on Balancing a Checkbook. I used the included UDL Lesson Plan Builder to create the lesson. This involved finding the appropriate TEKS and finding technology resources that fit the lesson. Then I needed to create an e-book to compliment my UDL. The e-book software was decent and had several advantages over something like PowerPoint. Read my review of the e-book here. (I have also just taught myself how to create a Prezi and I think it is AWESOME. I will be presenting to a group of team managers for Destination Imagination next week and look forward to using all these skills to impress them.) As far as my group is going, we were a little disconnected this week. Maybe me most of all. It was spring break and I think all of us were on different schedules. Next week should be better.