Blog #15

Everything that I learned in this class was valuable to me. I came into this class having very minimal technology skills and now I feel like I know a little bit of every kind of technology that I would use in a classroom setting. Many of the skills that I learned throughout the semester I used in other classes. I made very nice and clear power points for several presentations that I had in other classes. Also, I used the graphing aspect of Excel to create many graphs, which I used in association with many other classes. I also used the video editing lessons to create a video for a presentation in another class. Overall, I got great grades on any assignment in which I utilized my technology skills learned in this course. Another positive was using MACs, I previously had no experience with using a MAC computer and now that I do have that experience, I actually want a MAC as my personal computer.
I will use all of the skills that I learned in this class in my own classroom in the future. There wasn’t one lesson where I felt like the material wasn’t relevant to my future as a teacher! Therefore, there wasn’t anything that didn’t have value to me :)
The only place where I could see a need for improvement was in the actual assignments themselves. I was confused on many occasions as to the requirements and procedures of the assignments. I realize that there are a lot of assignments but a different approach to the presentation of assignments would have been very helpful to me. A suggestion on that note might be to always provide an attachment with each assignment outlining the exact steps that need to be taken. I know that on most assignments you did that but there were several times in which the attachment outline differed from the WebCT assignment outline and that was really confusing. Another thing was that you went really fast when explaining the processes of the technology. Maybe going through those same explanations twice would be helpful, the first time to take notes and the second time to actually do the processes with you.