The End of LE#1
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Reflect on This Learning
So Here I am at the end of my first learning module of the 2nd part of the course. I'm happy to be here as I'm inching along with all the other things that happen along with work and life. I really enjoyed and benefitted from a couple of sections of this learning module. First and foremost the dreaded "Blog", dreaded because I wasn't sure how I first felt about it. And secondly, the web 2.0 tools and learning. This pages chock full of sites and ideas to use.
The blog has become my friend. I certainly didn't think it would be. I have always enjoyed writing and reflecting but perhaps not so much publicly. There are however many benefits to this and perhaps any of you who stumble up on my blogs in the future will feel the same way or you may be at that certain point in your life where you feel busier than you can handle. It's okay, it'll pass ( I actually wrote that to remind myself).
One of my favourite blogs now a book was the 1000 Awesome Things. Perhaps someday I'll have an inspired moment like that during blogging to create my own version.
The Web 2.0 Tools as previously mentioned opened my eyes to a whole new world of Awesome as it were, to what is out there for classrooms and students. I have put Edmodo to use and it is now up and running, and with great feedback from the kids. Where I have to be careful is trying not to do too much with all the programs and things that are out there to be used. Focus on one or two things and try and do them well!
One of the things that I found really not that tremendously useful and quite bothersome, though I understand how necessary it is, was the computer use policy. Okay, I get the necessity. It's just terribly unfortunate as people don't use their heads, or even more unfortunate people try to take advantage.
I can say that it has been easy to connect to the Standards of Practice for the Teaching Profession as the continuous discussions and on going learning have continued to open my eyes to not only technologies and programs, but other educators thoughts and views as well as what is going on with other school boards out there!
That's what I think about that,
Over and out,
Shaun
The blog has become my friend. I certainly didn't think it would be. I have always enjoyed writing and reflecting but perhaps not so much publicly. There are however many benefits to this and perhaps any of you who stumble up on my blogs in the future will feel the same way or you may be at that certain point in your life where you feel busier than you can handle. It's okay, it'll pass ( I actually wrote that to remind myself).
One of my favourite blogs now a book was the 1000 Awesome Things. Perhaps someday I'll have an inspired moment like that during blogging to create my own version.
The Web 2.0 Tools as previously mentioned opened my eyes to a whole new world of Awesome as it were, to what is out there for classrooms and students. I have put Edmodo to use and it is now up and running, and with great feedback from the kids. Where I have to be careful is trying not to do too much with all the programs and things that are out there to be used. Focus on one or two things and try and do them well!
One of the things that I found really not that tremendously useful and quite bothersome, though I understand how necessary it is, was the computer use policy. Okay, I get the necessity. It's just terribly unfortunate as people don't use their heads, or even more unfortunate people try to take advantage.
I can say that it has been easy to connect to the Standards of Practice for the Teaching Profession as the continuous discussions and on going learning have continued to open my eyes to not only technologies and programs, but other educators thoughts and views as well as what is going on with other school boards out there!
That's what I think about that,
Over and out,
Shaun
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