One of my Aha! moments were the wiki page. Once I started reading about how they are used for collaboration I knew what I wanted mine to be about. I wanted to make a wiki that could be used by all the BIM teachers in Mesquite ISD. We don’t have textbooks at the moment, so we are creating lesson from scratch. Emailing someone a new lesson was time consuming. The wiki was a great tool for this. Every teacher could just upload their lessons, and the res t of us could download what we wanted and use it in our classroom.
My other one was about reflections and e-portfolios. We have been reflecting this whole time, and I really didn’t make that connection until Week 4 when we discussed assessment and e-portfolios. The reflections have really helped me to process all that I have learned in this class. My students would also benefit from reflection. I am going to start doing this in my classes. All my students will have a blog account, and will write reflections about projects that we complete in class. The Google Apps project I used reflection as part of the lesson. Before taking this class, I would have never thought to do that. Now I know it is a crucial part of the learning process.
My technology statement has change regarding e-portfolios and reflection. These were not even mentioned in my first statement. Now I see how important these two things are for student learning. I will include both of these in my lessons for next year. Technology is something that all educators should embrace.
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