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Saturday, August 17, 2013

EDLD 5352 - Technology Skills Gained



At the beginning of this course, I felt that I had a good grasp for using technology in my classroom.  I usually provide technology support for my colleagues, especially those in my department.  We have in the last two years increased our collaboration in the use of data analysis from state and site-based assessments.  We have utilized Dropbox to share resources.  We have created and collaborated on shared wikispaces sites to collaborate in lesson planning, lecture notes, web links, study guides, and assessments.  This has made our curriculum more accessible to our students and parents and made our discussions about classroom instruction more effective.
More than anything else, this course has given me the push to examine some web-based resources that I hadn’t taken the time to examine.  Some of these included Google docs, which I had not used before.  Our Google docs group shared ideas about LiveBinders, Prezi, Edmodo, TimeToast, Animoto, and Evernote.  I have never used any of these before.  I hope to begin using some of these as a result.
Our discussion board discussions covered project based learning and Flipped Classrooms.  I had heard of these innovations for the classroom but had not previously taken the time to learn how they might be implemented.  All in all this course has given me some new avenues to pursue in terms of technology in the classroom.

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