Reflection

Going through the OER website, I really enjoyed the open-sourced collaboration aspect of the website. Any educator can post their lesson plans on this website to share with other teachers, and they can also review and receive feedback from other educators on how to improve their lesson plans.  OER Commons could end up being an incredibly useful tool for me when I become an educator for these exact reasons; when I need ideas for a lesson plan, or when I need suggestions on how to improve my lesson plan, I can go to the OER website for this reason.  

The OER process was kind of awkward and difficult for me, to be honest.  I was unexperienced in how to use the OER website, and the format was honestly kind of clunky and old-fashioned.  In addition, a lot of language used in the OER review process was confusing, and there were words and benchmarks that I found unfamiliar.  I had to take a while to familiarize myself with the questions that the review was asking me to answer.  

This website seems very useful for my future classroom. Especially as a first year teacher, this prove very handy. With oercommons, I can take the entire lesson plan and use it in my class, or take bits and pieces from different plans that I like. 

After I have made a few lesson plans, I can give back to the system and put them on oercommons so that future first year teachers, or maybe teachers that just want to change things up, can use them.

I think this OER Lesson Plan Review is relevant to me as a future teacher because it provides us a way to look at a lesson plan in a more critical way. The lesson plans on the OER website are useful in general for all of us because it has so many options for us to teach. Reviewing the lesson plans, however, helps me as a future teacher because it provides me a way to look at a lesson plan in a more critical way. By having a plethora of lesson plans at hand in this website, I can modify, adjust, add and do anything I want with them if I were to implement them in my classroom. In addition to modifying a lesson plan to suit my future classroom, I also have the opportunity to provide feedback to other teachers about their lessons in order for them to improve in the areas they need. If I ever do post my own lesson, which I think I would want to do in the future, other teachers would give me advice on how to improve my lessons too. It is a way to collaborate all over the country through this one website.

Open Education Resources gives teachers the chance to share and gain ideas from lesson plans created by other educators. This is a great site to use if you would like to teach something in your classroom but are struggling with a way to do it. You can see other teachers thoughts and figure out ways to bring your chosen topic to life. I enjoyed being able to read other teachers' lesson plans and being able to determine what elements work and what do not when it comes to trying to expose a subject to your students. It allows you to collaborate with other teachers to find way to improve their lesson so that it can be beneficial to their own students. 

For me it was a little tough to find a lesson that related to Spanish that did not have just a bunch of links with paragraphs of reading. That is why I chose a lesson that involve exploring the internet to find out information relevant to countries that speak Spanish. Also ways that it can assess to verbal and grammatical skills of a Spanish student. I wish this website would contain more Foreign Language Lessons. 

The rubric really helped me when it came to evaluating this lesson. It provide important guidelines that I needed to follow to be able a evaluate the lesson properly. Leaving comments is also beneficial because it allows you to help out other teachers and find out ways to improve the lesson. 

I enjoyed being able to read other lessons and I will definitely be using this source in the future. 

I think This lesson is a lesson will use in my classroom. This lesson is important to all students not just women. It is important for everyone to acknowledge the battle for equality on all spheres.

This would be relevant to my future classroom because I could be able to see other teachers lessons and valuable information that I could use or learn from to create future lessons. I think it is really a cool concept that other teachers get to evaluate how they think the lesson was, and how they can evaluate the different aspects of the lesson. I also really liked how you could choose all the different standards, even for different states! I liked that we were forced to do a review, because it made sure you understood the entire lesson. I had to go back quite a few times to ensure I got the information that I needed to make sure I could fill out each part of the evaluation. 

While I think this could be a good resource, I do not think I would use this in my own classroom or as a teacher. I do not think I would use it because there seem to be very few reliable lesson plans on the website. I went through a lot of lesson plans on here and it just seems difficult to find something I would actually like to use. Leaving a review also seems helpful, but it never seems that those evaluations or reviews actually help. I think the biggest issue is the data base is so large that it can take forever to find a lesson you would actually like to use. One good thing about this website, however, is inspiration. I think it would be cool to go on here and find a few ideas to make a lesson about. While this is cool, I think Pinterest does a lot better job at this.

This badge was extremely relevant to my future classroom. I loved learning about this resource and I will definitely be using it from now on. It is easy to use and very resourceful. Without participating in this badge I would probably never have even found out about this website. I will be using it during my time at OU, as well as when I start my career. It is easy to navigate and you can find hundreds of lesson plans with just the click of a button.

I really liked doing the review because it was easy to use and I felt like I was contributing. I was able to see other people's reviews which were really crucial in determining which lesson plan I was going to read and review. I think that websites and resources like this are so important and meaningful and I like that I was able to contribute and help other teachers by leaving a review. 

As a future educator, I feel that using the OER website can provide teachers with a number of benefits both individually and collectively. Using OER allows teachers to share, analyze and draw inspiration for original lesson plans. Additionally, this resource allows teachers to collaborate with one another and share their personal experiences from within the classroom. Using previously submitted lesson plans is a great way to eliminate unnecessary stress and an excessive workload however, reading and reviewing these lessons leaves me feeling motivated to increase my creativity and develop my own lesson plans. The amount of lesson plans on this website is seemingly endless and this massive collection of resources is directly representative of the many benefits OER can offer.

In addition to relieving teachers of a large workload, OER allows educators to collaborate and use their individual knowledge to improve the overarching state of education in the United States. Through voluntary evaluations, teachers can gather information from many perspectives and modify their lessons in a way that is intentional and well-rounded. As a result, this information can be applied to the lesson plan structure and serve as an additional resource for other teachers to benefit from. The website makes it easy to navigate through each lesson plan and is clear in terms of how to effectively evaluate a lesson plan. Overall, the sharing of OERs allows teachers to improve the experience of students while contributing to the develop of education as a whole. 

This badge is relevant to my future classroom because it provides a resource for me. It allows me to adapt and change my lessons as much as a want while incorporating some form of technology, all while being able to read the reviews for the lesson plan.

as educators we should always be willing to adapt and to change our lesson plans to fit whatever comes and is needed for our students 

This activity is relevant to my future classroom because oercommons.org is a useful resource for teachers if they are looking for activities or lessons in a specific subject area. I was able to play around with the website and search for different types of lessons. I am glad that I know about it so that if I feel the need to use it in the future I know how.

I can see myself using this website one day if I really needed some help coming up with a lesson plan in a certain subject. Some of the lessons were well thought out and explained in great detail, while others were a bit more basic and didn’t have very much description to them.

Reviewing a lesson was a bit confusing at first. I couldn’t figure out how to evaluate lessons that had not been reviewed yet so that was frustrating, but once I figured out what the rubrics meant I was able to review a lesson with no problem.