What the SME is Going On With This Power Point

Our team is meeting with the SMEs this coming Monday. We are letting the experts look at our Super Weather Project. We have also started letting kids work through our website, so that we can get an idea of where we need to make adjustments. I am currently working on the "hook" for our project. I am also going to be putting my Power Point skills into action in my Research Methods class.

By having people look through the site, we will be able to get feedback from them, and then fine-tune anything that might be confusing or doesn't work. This does mean that our team will have to find students of fourth-grade age, and I believe Sandy Downs has done this. When we were going over Power Point in class, two of the team members had already been working on the Power Point portion of our project--in fact, the Power Points are finished, and ready for the SME to look at it. At this point, my job is to simply do what I have been assigned by our project leaders.

I have never really thought of using a SME in my in-class instruction. I have worked with a collaborative team; however, I have never taken my lesson plans to a professional, to see the viability of the methods used. Something I could do in the future would be to have my administrators and district specialists to look at unit plans.