Who Am I? Introduction: Some Final Thoughts

Once you’ve completed your video and uploaded it to our course Bongo site, you have nearly completed the course introduction. Over the next few days (and prior to the ending of this introductory course unit), log in and view a minimum of 5 introductory videos uploaded by your classmates.

Having listened to a minimum of 5 videos, post a short, written response that addresses the content of the introduction.

Some guidance as you write your response:

In your response to a peer’s introductory video, be sure to mention where her or his story overlaps with your own AND/OR where the introduction provokes in you a memory or story or question. The hope is that your written response is more than a simple, “Nice video, Mary!” or “Hey, I’m also a 5^th grade teacher!” Raise questions and respond with comments that specifically address WHO your classmate is AND the responses she/he provides to the open sentences.

Finally, in introducing yourself, as “naming” who you are (your multiple identities), in declaring your current thinking about curriculum, you are “formally” joining our class community. You need NOT be “certain” or “smart,” etc., only honest and true to who you are, and to what you are thinking and feeling!

And, as you respond to your classmates’ introductory videos in authentic and substantive ways, the hope is that the beginnings of a class community are “taking root”!