Amber Hanson
#ETLEAD
Final Reflection
Overall I really enjoyed this
class. Of course there were definitely
hiccups along the way. I
especially enjoyed the first book we read: Teach Like a Pirate. This is probably one of the best-required
readings I’ve ever had to read in any of my educational classes. I enjoyed it as it helped remind me
about how important it is to engage students in learning. It also gave soooooo many great ideas
that I can use within my own classroom to hook my students and to really make
my lessons meaningful. Although I’m
too busy right now, I really want to make a poster or two of some of the useful
things in that book.
In
addition to this text, I will say that I liked blogging as well. While I missed a few, and wasn’t always
on time. I still enjoyed it nonetheless. The biggest thing that got me on blogging
was the due dates. I found it
extremely difficult to get blogs in by Friday night, as during the week I am
generally too busy with meetings, sports, and tutoring to be working on
homework. I think it would have
been better if the original post was due by Saturday night, and the reflection
post due by Monday night. This would
give people such as myself time to research and create a quality blog posting
and actually have it turned in on time.
One
aspect of this class in which I would like to address is the use of
Twitter. While I know some people absolutely
LOVE it, I’ve always found it so difficult. Anytime I attempted to partake in the Twitter sessions I felt
lost in the conversations. And once I was in one, I had a hard time following
it. I really really really think
Twitter is a poor program to use for class discussions. But that is just my opinion.
Aside
form the required blogs and readings I wanted to quickly mention my mentoring
project. I really enjoyed
mentoring my coworker on using the interactive whiteboard in her
classroom. My mentee is now using
the board daily and I feel that if I hadn’t been asked to mentor someone in
technology, She may have never known how awesome it is to use the
whiteboards.
Overall
this class has been a positive experience for me. I enjoyed reading about everyone else’s mentor projects, and
got a lot of useful information out of them. For instance, in Tracie’s project she shared a few ipad apps
that were of use within her mentee’s classroom, including italk and a few
others. Although I only have 1 iPad
within my classroom, I feel that as a result of her project, as well as Andrea’s
(who also did a project using an iPad) I have a general idea on how I can
implement the use of mine within my classroom.
Thank
you everyone for the great semester, thank you Lee for all your support and
help as well. You all have been
wonderful and I wish you luck as you progress through next semester in your
coursework, as well as in your classroom!
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