EDM 310 Summary

1. Blogs – I had a blog before this class and now love it even more. I think it will be very useful to me when I have my own class and I plan on having a class blog and student blogs.

Wikis - They are pretty neat, just not sure how much I will use them.

Presentations – I enjoyed making and watching the presentations we had in class. I think there will always be presentations of some form in schools.

Google Docs – I really like Google Docs and have found it useful since I can access them from any computer. I definitely plan on my future students using them; no more I left it at home!

Google spreadsheets – I don’t remember doing these but I am sure I could if needed.

Picasa – Is a really neat photo program and would be useful to students. I have this wonderful MAC that has a great photo program on it.

Podcasts – What an experience! This was my first experience with podcast – listening and making. They are really neat and can be quite educational. I would love to have podcasts for my students.

Videocasts – I loved getting to make my first video. It was such a sense of accomplishment and I think this would be a great project for students. This would be great for science labs in the future.

YouTube – I am addicted, always have been. But now I have a new reason, an educational one.

Posts you read – I have enjoyed reading my classmates post even though I don’t comment on them. I think it would be great for students to read other blogs so they can get some new ideas and new views.

PLNs – This was new for me and a bit of a challenge. But I have a small PLN that I quite like and I hope to expand. I think this will be very useful when I become a teacher.

Twitter – I still refuse to get on twitter – sorry.

Teachers and students outside of our region - Skype is such a wonderful invention and has opened the “doors” to classrooms all over the world. I think it is great for students to get to see how different cultures learn and what they study.

Comments4kids – Wonderful project. I think this should always be part of the class and I hope to make it part of mine one day.

iTunes – I like it, I love it, I can’t get enough of it. Mostly I use it for music.

iTunesU – I had never heard of this and it is amazing. Education online! I will definitely use this in my future classroom.

Accessibility issues and the use of html tag modifiers to address some of those issues – I don’t know what you mean here.

Who you are as a professional – I have certainly changed since this class. I have brand new knowledge of technology and I can’t wait to use it in my classroom!

Google forms – These are some incredible surveys and very useful. They would be great to use at the beginning of the year to get to know my students.

Data bases – There are many different kinds and they seem to be quite helpful.

Google Earth – This was awesome, too bad the project did not work out. But I have continues to work with it and try different things.

Delicious – I do not use Delicious.

ACCESS & ALEX – Very neat programs that the state of Alabama has, just hope people take advantage of them and use them.

Foliotek – Personally I don’t care for it but I know how to use it.

Technological literacy – Extremely important and should be a requirement in order to be a teacher.

The future of schools - Should be very interesting to watch. It will be interesting to see how long schools put off a lot of technology that should be schools already. Or if schools embrace technology and take full advantage of it, hope it is the latter.

Your "intellectual trail” – I have certainly grown in my knowledge of technology and my confidence in using technology. Thank you for that Dr. Strange.

2. I don’t think there was anything I wanted to learn that I didn’t. I learned more than I could have imagined in class.

3. Well, if I had used Twitter that would be one. Other than that I enjoyed everything we learned about.

4. I LOVED getting to make a video, which was really exciting. I thought it would be way over my head but it was easy and now I enjoy making lots of them.

5. I found the PLN to challenging just because I was not sure what really made up a PLN. Then I just started exploring and found forming a PLN was not that hard.

6. Sometimes you would go off on tangents and I would get lost but not really bored.

7. I really liked the course. I think you should make everyone make a video and of coarse Comments4Kids.

8. I think I have a lot more to learn about different technology and always will. But I am certainly more technologically literate than when I enter the class (far, far more literate).

9. I hope to continue to learn more through my PLN and of coarse the Tech Literate Blog. I never want to stop learning.