This class has been very informative. I completed two action research projects, one on creating a successful classroom management plan and the other on student engagement with interactive whiteboards.
The support I received from my peers was outstanding. I enjoyed reading other's work and giving them support, by emailing and adding comments to their projects. I found editing my peers work helped me with creating my own write up. I enjoyed having critical friends in this class.
I have finished looking over my work, reviewing, analyzing and reviewing more. I am extremely pleased at the result and look forward to sharing my information and knowledge with other colleagues.
I have to say, while this has been an incredible journey, everything that you could possibly imagine has gone wrong while writing and finishing this project. It all started with losing a bunch of data on my computer, but thankfully I had kept a log on google drive, which saved from many hours of work being lost. Then it was almost at the end of finalizing my paper, making corrections and finishing the last touches, when my HD disk was full and I wasn't able to save any of my work. I had to copy all of the information I had onto a google drive document, I tried saving it to a jump drive, but that wouldn't work either. I watched tutorial videos on how to make more space on the HD... it suggested to go to the activity monitor and delete the trash and download bin. I did that, nothing changed, closed out other programs, still nothing changed. I clicked on another program and saw "force quit" well I clicked on this button and shut down my whole computer. Thankfully, google drive saves automatically. I didn't lose anything, but did have to copy and paste to get my paper back to where it was before the shutdown. When the computer shutdown, it made more room on the HD. So I was finally able to save my project to the HD and a jump drive, you can never be too safe.
Then I went to the final touches and presented my information through screen-cast-o-matic. This was great, I explained my reasoning for the project, my findings and results. I encoded and uploaded it to youtube. Before I ever turn in something, I always review many times. I clicked on the link to the video and it came up "private" oh brother. I tried to change the settings, but once screen-cast-omatic uploads it is final. So I had to encode and upload again. It has been a long journey and quite stressful and chaotic, but I am very pleased with the results.
I enjoyed the two research classes I took. I have changed my classroom plan and set up during this action research. That is what action research is about.
Thank you for the strength building journey and I hope you enjoy my two wonderful research action projects.
Below are my two action research projects
