Week 7 - Reflection #7
The learning objective I developed was for the purpose of presenting a concept and then challenging the students to think outside their small town box and on into the global community and then expand that thinking. My rationale for selecting the technologies used was for modeling as well as expanding their own technology usage range. With the three levels of advancing difficulties, I would expect that most will do well with the finding of the items requested, and do well with the blogging portion. As normal with the freshmen in my open classes some will struggle with the composition portion still and generally bemoan the ‘imposition’ of having a critically thinking assignment put on them.
My view of instruction for this lesson found that it was different to be thinking what technology could I cause the students to use, beyond the standard word program and then pushing them to also expand areas of usage. Since I discovered Jing I’ve pushed my students to use it, but I want more for them and for me and I can see how my lessons can be even richer with the helps from both the Google apps and elearning apps.
The iGoogle looks cool and like a lot of fun. I know I want to have a cool home page to link from out of Bb for my students. So between what I have learned in this class and in Dr. Espinoza's class, I feel well armed to go forth and prosper (what to guess what kind of theme I might have? Be sure to look for me around the etech corner somewhere.)
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