Lessons+Learned

Lessons Learned

After taking this course I feel that I have evolved in my technology skills a lot. I feel that I now have a broader understanding of the technologies that I have experienced in this course. I was definitely taken out of my comfort zone this quarter and I was exposed to things that I really did not want to learn about at first. After this course I now enjoy learning about technologies that can improve my teaching. I feel that I now have more awareness about technologies that are out there. I have more of a desire to find new technologies that will actually help me in the classroom and that will benefit not only my needs but those of the students.I feel more intelligent as well and now I hear about all these different technologies on television and through my friends and other places. Now when I hear them referenced somewhere, I feel like I know what they are talking about.

One of my favorite things I learned through this course was how to create and use a protopage. One thing that was discussed during the class was using the protopage to store all of the teaching materials I find in one online source and making it private. Then I can use it to store math, science,. reading and so on. The protopage was such a great idea. I can definetly see mysekf using it in the future.

The other thing I really enjoyed was learning about Rubistar. I really wish that I would have learned this earlier than in life especially before I took EDUC 570. Rubrics are so helpful at laying out what is exactly expected for my students. This was propably one of the most helpful tools I have ever learned about.