Inquiry Seminar Reflection - Blog #3

The Inquiry Celebration was great this year as a participant.  When I was a tutor, this presentation seemed so much more intimidating and over my head, but as this year has progressed, we have focused so much more on our own inquiry, especially through out mini-inquiry, and because of this, I felt like I had a better understanding of the presentations done at the seminar.  I saw 4 presentations and two of them taught me so much.  One of these focused on project-based learning, which is something I've always been interested in and it was nice to know that, although it was the first year this had been implemented by these interns and their school, it was for the most part, successful.  This gave me hope for the future in my own classroom when I decide to try it out.  The second presentation that was so awesome included using a skype-like system to teach about other cultures by having video chats with a classroom in another culture.  This intern had a friend in China who was teaching (English) at the same time and they would have their classes make videos and send them back and forth, asking and answering questions about the culture.  This was so interesting because I am a big fan of experiential learning and this is a great example of it.  This intern said that her students loved this activity and they learned so much about the culture of China, and this also gives me hope that this would be a great activity to try to implement in the future!