Reflection from class 10/7

If I do want to resubmit my interactive whiteboard lesson, the peer reviewers are going to be assigned next week, so I have a week if I do figure out how to edit photos.  I found it interesting that the flexibility in the lesson challeneged me.  Usually I try to follow the requirements to achieve a high grade.  However, with more freedom, it's harder to know what's required.  Professor Boyer made a good point that outside of college we will have a lot of freedom in the educational field.  I will be able to design my lesson plans and add any activities that I select to enchance the students' learning.  I hope that as I continue to design lessons and explore activities it can become more of a natural process for me.  Also, I know that it will depend on my class every year.  I may have to revisit my lesson plans yearly, to revise based on my current classes needs.  One year they may need more help in writing, and the next year a new class may need more hand-on experince with science concepts. 
We also critiqued the group presentation.  Two things to change that I wanted to remember for my presentation is to speak up and consider how to group if we make discussion groups.  I couldn't hear some of the discussion because I sit on the other side of the room from the presenters.  Also, this room is set up poorly for grouping, so we need to consider that when designing our lesson plan.  One interesting idea that came up that I want to remember for my classroom is about redirecting.  One discussion group was considering the wrong topic.  How can I as a teacher redirect the group without making the group feel bad for their wrong ideas? I don't want to discourage them from inputting their opinions in the future.
We also talked about the interactive reusable learning objective lesson.  Using Scratch I can design an interactive game that can target a specific skill or content area for my students to use through the Internet (they don't need to download Scratch to use it.)  For next week we only have to come up with ideas for our iRLO.  But I think it's important to start experimenting with Scratch so i know the capabilities before I start brainstorming.  For the IWB lesson I thought of all kinda of activities that notebook couldn't even do (the Scratch website is under the helpful resources in the agenda for today.)