Monday, December 12, 2016

Final: Reflective Post

   Well it's that time in the semester where we say goodbye and 
reflect on how the class went and how much we have learned 
throughout the semester.As a future teacher I've learned a lot of new materials that I can incorporate into my teaching and pass down to my future students. In this final blog post I am going to introduce to you what new learning materials I picked up and the resources that were used. 

Digital Blog Posts:
   One of the first assignments that I learned about in this course is doing digital blog post using blogger. The purpose of the blog post was to reflect on different concepts in each chapter that we want to explore and reflect upon. Then we were to choose a creative tool and use it to focus on the blog post.


Website Evaluation Rubric:
   The purpose of this next assignment to create a rubric to use while evaluating an educational/children's academic website. After choosing an academic website we were to use the rubric we created to  evaluate it and then write a written critique for the site.





Instructional Strategies Wiki:
    The purpose of this assignment was for us to work in groups and being creative using collaborative wiki that exhibits different instructional strategies. Each group member was chose one strategy and were to give a detail description of the strategy.The wiki page should've have at least one graphic,hyperlink,video etc. The last part of the wiki process was to evaluate another members wiki page.





WebQuest:
   The purpose was to design a web quest using zunal for any grade/subject level. In this assignment we had to include introduction, Task, Process, Evaluation, Conclusion, and Teacher Page.



Collaborative Lesson Plan:
   As a group project were to develop a lesson plan based on 
technology components. It was to be focused on one subject/grade level.Also include one Common Core/Florida Standard. The purpose of this group lesson plan was to someway integrate technology for instruction and provide a written evaluation.




Teacher Webpage ePortfolio:
   The last of the many assignments was the teacher ePortfolio. The purpose was to create a teacher webpage e-portfolio comprised of all the previous assignments, lessons and other significant resources discovered or developed during this course.




Final thoughts:
   The assignments and projects that I described in detail above were what thought were the 6 major ones. Through all these I learned new strategies and things during each lesson and project. Though most of them were time consuming and sometimes stressful I found them to be very helpful. Through these assignments there are many new ideas I can take into my classroom. Looking back on the lesson outcomes I would say that communication (COM): To communicate effectively using standard English(written or oral).
I believe is the one I improved the most throughout the semester. 

    To end this final blog post I can't believe I made it this far 

while taking all three education classes to get my undergraduate 

degree and somehow managed to be successful in passing all three of 

these courses. Thank you professor coleman for a great semester.For   

future students don't procrastinate because it won't get you far and   

its very stressful believe me I would know.

Resources:

Clipart - Download Royalty Free Clipart, Images, Photos, Fonts, Web Art and Graphics. (n.d.). Retrieved December 12, 2016, from http://www.clipart.com/en/

Maloy, R. W., Verock-O'Loughlin, R., Edwards, S. A., & Woolf, B. P. (2013). Transforming learning with new technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.

R. (2012, December 09). Retrieved December 12, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPkwfLbzkM

Secord, A. (2013, December 07). Retrieved December 12, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODN9THnBMFc&t=4s

W. (2016, September 15). Retrieved December 12, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woY_4Bzg_7o