Reflective Essay

This course has helped me develop technology skills in many ways. The blog page that I created will allow me to assign my students reflective essays once a week to not only view their thoughts and opinions on certain topics but also to test and improve their writing skills. The wikispace that we created will allow me to post multiple assignments and announcements for students to be able to view both in the classroom and at home. The podcasts I will probably not use as much in my classroom but knowing how to navigate this will allow me to navigate and implement vodcasting in my classroom. This could allow me to video myself teaching a lesson and require the students to view the lesson before it is taught in the classroom giving the students a chance to see and hear the information and come up with any questions they may have beforehand.
This course has been sort of difficult for me because it is more self taught than not. I believe that being able to investigate and make my own mistakes has made me a better learner because I am not depending on someone to teach it to me but am learning on my own research and experiences.
I am now more learner-centered because I can put myself in my student’s shoes and allow them to experience things on their own as I have done while also guiding them at the same time. I also find it very helpful to have the students teach each other the content to ensure learning is definitely taking place. I have found myself teaching other teachers here at my school about wikispaces and other things related to technology and I end up learning even more about the programs in the process.
Two goals that I have for myself are to finish my entire wikispace and blog page by next school year in order to be able to use them in the classroom.

Podcast Interviews

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