EDLD+5364+Week+5+Final+Reflection

Respond in the expandable boxes below. Remember to copy and paste your responses to your wiki. 1. What outcomes had you envisioned for this course? Did you achieve those outcomes? Did the actual course outcomes align with those that you envisioned?   The vision that I had was to see what many considered teaching with technology and what truly integration is. I also wanted to prove what the ideas that I have been teaching are correct to get teachers and students together.Teachers need to see what and how to seamlessly integrate technology with what lesson plans that they already have created. I believe that those outcomes are what I wanted to see and hear. The readings were great in justifying what my goals for technology staff development are and where to guide me with future trainings. Yes, I do believe that the outcomes did align with what I envisioned from this course. I was always entrigued with what I would read and watch. It was never a dull moment because this course pushed me to look at what I am working on and strive for more with technology in the curriculum. The group work was true work but working with others is what the 21st century learners are doing and we need to function that way as well. I enjoyed what I was doing and worked well with my group members.    2. To the extent that you achived the outcomes, are they still relevant to the work that you do in your school? Why or why not?   All from this course was relevant for what I do. I create manuals, trainings and small group instruction with the use of technology. This can be challenging ,because not all of our campuses have the same available technology. Working through the course, was challenging with the amount of group and individual work. Also trying to understand the UDL design. I have been to training on an older version of this but it was a lot to learn in a week! So, I was really concerned when we had to create a lesson using that design and having been out of the classroom a couple of years. Learned that it does come back with practice. This taught me to look at what outcomes I wanted for the district with the use of technology, how can I make it work for the whole not just part. I have some creative ideas in the works. It will take a good month of my work alone to bring it to teachers this summer but I believe the pay off will make up for it. It made me excited again about a new workshop to work on and have fun with.   3. What outcomes did you not achieve? What prevented you from achieving them?  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The outcomes that I did not achieve was limited because I was part of all of the assignments. I completed the work individual assignments, and had my hand in all of the group work. We created a unit for science only that flowed from one to another over a 10 day period. We all critiqued each others lessons and gave advice. We chatted on google chat almost nightly. Even the Action Plan was changed numerous times before we were all satisfied. I always get worried in working in groups because it does take more effort and time, but we worked through our technology glitches and adapting our plans as needed. I did become team leader which I normally do not do, but I helped create the site and get us started. We did not need a team leader because we are all strong leaders but understand collaborative teamwork and feel that I was able to get the best out of this experience. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">4. Were you successful in completing the course assignments? If not, what prevented or discouraged you? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">I am a little OCD with deadlines and always have my work turned in on time. Many of the group assignments we had to think ahead so I worked on my individual work so I could then plan without thinking of the other assignments. I did get a little discouraged in Week 3, because there was a lot of work ahead of us. My group worked out when we should plan and meet the Saturday before that week. It was nice that we all coordinated and placed items on google docs and our site to fill us all in. We used sites To do list to keep up our meetings. Then I found out that the last week would be cut down by 2 days, this I did understand but knew it would take time to get most of it done. I created a wiki for the the plant science study to keep our unit somewhat separated from the team site. Overall, we worked out most of the kinks. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">5. What did you learn from this course: about yourself, your technology and leadership skills, and your attitudes? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">As I said before was that I learned how I can better my technology staff development to stretch to reach all teachers with tools that are accessible anywhere anytime. Since I became team leader with a group of leaders, it was easy to step aside and let one of the others take charge when their skills were more informative in an area or who wanted to take charge of that section. So, I believe that to be a good leader it takes one that can let go when needed and not micro manage everything. I have learned that teachers are in need of quality training that checks on their progress of technology use in the classroom. My attitude is usually positive but during the course was upset or down in this case of seeing what other campuses are able to accomplish but realize that they may be magnet or charter schools not the public arena. We will always need technology but looking for the right items to fit the teacher or campus needs is the challenge but something I will always work for.
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