This course was one of the easier going courses we have had thus far. I think what added to my enjoyment of this class was all of the different web tools that we researched and employed. I greatly enjoyed working collaboratively with my peers in this course. Our team worked very well together, and reading the research from the members on my team was very insightful. I thought that this class would go a bit further to increase our knowledge and skills of technology in the classroom. I think the parts of this course that contributed most to new and useful knowledge and skills were the topics covered in the weekly discussions. I enjoyed learning about the flipped classroom and livebinders. Those were both tools that I had heard of from a few teachers, but had not done a great amount of research on. I felt as though the video links and articles that were linked to the discussion board were just the pieces I needed to strike my curiosity further. I will definitely employ some of the new tools that I learned in this course for my Biology classroom this year, as well as in my future years as an administrator. I had a strong prior knowledge of the majority of the activities and lessons that we completed in this course. We had been asked to study our use of technology in the classroom in many ways in many of our earlier courses. Because those courses prepared us so well, I felt as though the activities in this course could’ve gone even a step further in exploring and using technology.
I did not attend any of the web conferences in this course. I felt as though the explanations given for each assignment through the word documents and rubrics were pretty clear and concise. With this course taking place during summer vacation, I didn't have much of a regular schedule with time set aside to attend these web conferences. My IA did a great job of keeping information updated on the announcements page as well as correspondence and further explanations via email.
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