This class has been a positive experience. I will be honest and say that I was dreading it at first. However, even though I work in a school that is highly technology based, I learned a great deal about technology available to me - especially FREE technology such as PBWorks and GoogleDrive. Prior to the class I knew about GoogleDocs, but I did not know about GoogleSites - which I am seriously considering using with my students because even though we use system to communicate, grade, post assignments, etc., the website I created through our class fostered some ideas on how using my own website could get rid of some of the complexity and "bulkiness" of the system that we use. Also, it would be easy to update and communicate with parents using my own site. That said, this is something I think I will add and implement to my "instruction" next year.
My favorite assignment was the one where I created an iMovie. This project was first of all fun, but second of all, I thought of some really fun and cool ways I would make creative and interesting digital stories about my class and even maybe some of the content.
Above, I have included a picture of the post on Facebook I created about my iMovie.
Overall, this class was a positive experience, although there was some content which I felt I already knew or did not need a whole class to cover, I did benefit from this class.
