Reflection #1

What attitudes, skills, and concepts have you gained from participating in the course so far? 

•  I like the idea of having students on a wiki and allowing them to edit their page based on different assignment.  This would be a good idea for them to share what website they used for a given assignment and it would also allow them to use a different type of technology.  
• I also like the idea of discussing using the wiki.  The only problem I can see is that I would have to constantly monitor their posts to ensure that they are appropriate.  My students would be able to talk with one another without actually having to talk across the classroom.

What have you learned in the course that you will not forget tomorrow?

•  I have learned to that educational blogs can be extremely helpful and can provide teachers with different resources and ideas.  I found Diigo to be more helpful than I had imagined.  I wasn't sure what it would be able to provide me in this course.  I think it would be a great way for teachers in a district and teachers in other districts to collaborate with one another.  They would be able to send teachers to a blog that they used in their classroom and could even leave a sticky note to direct them in what they would to be helpful or what they changed.

 How will you apply what you have learned to your teaching and future learning? 

•  I plan on looking into creating a wiki for my class.  I currently use Edmodo as a classroom management software but it doesn't allow much for collaboration between students.  I think the wiki would allow them to respond to one another without having to write it on paper and handing it to their classmate.  
• I will also use some of the resources I found while completing the webliography in my classroom.  There were a lot of good ideas that I can incorporate into my computer skills curriculum.