"FINAL REFLECTION"

Final Reflection Question: What did you get out of this class? Will you use tech in your classes? How will you use tech in your classes? How has this class changed the way you think about teaching? About technology? 

I feel like I actually learned quite a bit from this class. There are some things I am able to do on the internet now, that I previously didn't know about and now I save a lot more time. One of the major things is using how to use GOOGLE! Google docs, Google Powerpoint, Google Sites, Google Calendar, you name it! I am set and ready to go. The one I use most often is Google docs for my classes. I feel this will be most beneficial as I go throughout my schooling. I also had fun creating a video. Though this was harder, I eel it too was rather beneficial in showing me what I can do to advocate for my profession.
I believe I now feel more confident in using and teaching technology in my classes. My students will be confident in using their internet abilities to find a program suited for what they are learning. Finding and visiting the class website often, and using Google docs to communicate with their classmates. I too will be able to use my new found knowledge to further my teaching skills through embedding homework assignments, videos, etc. into a class website which will be beneficial to my students.
This class has changed they way I think about teaching into making it more fun and exciting. This opens up a whole new list of possibilities and it helps me as a teacher to look like I am up with the rest of the world in technology. I also feel more competent in my technology skills and I like the idea of using technology in teaching a whole lot more. Technology is not hard to learn, but it does take some time and practice. The more I use it, the more I will feel accomplished in my teaching as where it is appropriate. Though technology should not be used as a substitute for teaching, it can be used as an aid to enhance students' experiences with it.
This class has been wonderful and I feel like it has been and will continue to be quite useful. Thanks for a great semester Dan, and to all my viewers, Merry Christmas and see you next year!

Mobile Apps

Reflection Question: Would you use mobile apps in your class, why or why not?

  Mobile Apps?! Yeah I am still not that technologically savvy.  I suppose you could use mobile apps in class, but for now I don't plan on it. A teacher has a lot on their plate, let alone worrying about whether or not the latest and greatest technology is going to work. I vote no. Why not? I simply do not have the time to worry about and learn how to use them. Perhaps later on when I am better caught up. But I do not agree that most of school work is being done online. I do not feel this is fair to all students. Not every child has the internet to do the work that is posted on it, and also I believe students should be spending their free time doing physical activity, rather than figuring out mobile apps to keep up with class. So no, as for right now, I am not a fan of using mobile apps in my class.

StudioCode

Reflection Question: Write 2 paragraphs explaining what you have learned about your management and instruction, and 1 paragraph explaining how you plan to make changes when you next teach this semester.
  As far as my classroom management, I felt like I did well on it. I identified off task students, I had equipment appropriately set up for the lesson before the arrival of the students and I gave rules and signals and reinforced them throughout the lesson. Feedback was also given in addition to discipline. Organization at the beginning went well, but started to fall towards the end.
  When if comes to instruction, my bad jargons even out my good cues and circulation. I said "you guys" a lot more than I remembered saying it. However, I always gave cues before teaching new skill and I repeated the cues throughout the process of learning that skill. I did well on circulation after the warm-up, and this allowed me to make comments and give the students a different angle in which to learn from me so they were not always facing the same direction.
   Next time I teach, I will be working on getting rid of all jargons and saying either gender neutral references or appropriate references to the boys and girls of which I am teaching. I will have a better visual of the class at at time, so I can acknowledge even those students not near me so they know I am watching. I can work on my discipline and signals. This will better enforce in the students' minds, who is in charge that hour of class and what they are going to do and who they are going to listen to. These are the things I look to improve the next time I teach.

Web 2.0 - Look them up.

Reflection Question: Were there any Web 2.0 tools that we talked about today that you feel would help further education? How might you use them in your teaching? Also, how might Facebook be utilized in education?

I feel that youtube is a great Web 2.0 that if used properly can definitely further learning. It can be used to show videos of example activities that I was my PE students to do or if I teach music on the side, I can use youtube as examples of good and back singers or piano technique. Youtube also has a wide variety of videos that can be used as examples or presentations to help demonstrate a point or cue.

Facebook could be utilized through a facebook group. If all the students are a member of the same group then, similar to an email, students can also receive updates and notes through facebook. Facebook could be a modern replacement of emails. Facebook can also serve a similar purpose as a class website. A teacher can create a facebook page for the class with updates and assignments. Facebook can easily be utilized in education.

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iMovie- The Final touches

Reflection Question: If you haven’t done so already, upload your videos to youtube and then embed the videos on your blog.  In the same post talk about your experience making these videos.  Was it positive? Negative?  Did you find it a valuable experience? Do you think you could make another video without help if you were asked to do so? Do you think you would do some type of video project in your classroom? Other thoughts or comments?  ALSO remember to fill out your evaluation of yourself in the rubric on your grade sheet.

 My experience in making these videos was that it was very time consuming. Though it is a fun idea, I often feel like the overall process and completion of the project wasn't worth it. Especially when there is only one place where the videos can be worked on and edited. This I found to be extremely frustrating when my only free time to work on it was after lab hours. I am not sure if I could make another video if I had to because I needed so much help just making this one. I could probably make a simpler one, but nothing as complex as the video I planned on making. As a PE teacher, I probably wouldn't do a video project in my classroom though I might consider having the students come up with different ideas and then taking having the class vote on an idea and have the class just do one video with my aide as a whole. I honestly depended on my groupmates to help out with the second easier video and to help with the final editing of the more complex video. They were great and I hope to give them the credit they deserve.

The videos are viewable above in separate posts.