End of classes – Part I
April 24, 2009
deboramarques
The end of the semester is getting nearer. Classes are almost over. Summer is coming. At the same time that all this can be very exciting, I must confess it gives me butterflies as well. After an end there is always a new beginning. Beginnings require changing, learning, adapting. Now that I was so used to the class, it is going to end. Despite the fact some of my colleagues must be relieved with the end of the classes, believe me, I am not! When I registered for EDTS, I had no idea what to expect from this class. It ended up being way better than I could have ever expected. Even though I have some classmates who are technology experts already, I am not computer skilled at all, so taking this class helped me much more than anyone could have imagined. I am a little bit nervous leaving this class now because how am I going to keep updating myself with all the technological changes? I would never have found out all the resources we learned in class on my own. How would I ever have thought of recording my own voice, making my own podcast video by myself? I wouldn’t come up with that idea on my own. Isn’t it fantastic we can do it nowadays even from home? I thought I would have to go to a professional recording studio to make such thing. This garage band is so incredible; I can even insert Jingles in my recordings, hahaha! How do I look for new stuff that I do not even know they exist? I don’t think I can do it on my own. So that is what I am afraid of. How am I going to be a modern, updated teacher with such an ever-changing digital world? So this class was very meaningful, helpful, It came at a good time in my life to help me out, wish it continued throughout my grad program though…
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ahetel9 |
April 27, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I agree with so many of your comments. The fact that its impossible to look for things that I do not know that exist. I hope that all of the things that we have been taught and talked about in class beome more mainstream and more available to all especially the students in class. It really is disapointing to keep learning these things when we know they cannot become relevant in our teachings. I am looking into using some of the technology but most is bloked and the school is not willing to unblock. I know one thing, that the divide between the students and teachers technological advances are becoming deeper and will continue to do so unless districts are willin gto take risks for the students skae.
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Stephen Ransom |
April 29, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Debora,
In any event, never stop feeding yourself professionally. Teachers who do become stagnant and irrelevant to their students.
Add some good, relevant blogs to your RSS reader. Follow some relevant folks on Twitter. Read related professional journals. Attend relevant conferences. Network with like-minded as well as radical folks. That is what professionals do. There is no way that all of this information just comes to anyone. I have to work hard to stay current and knowledgeable in my field. Look at this course as a springboard… a lighting of a fire. You can either let it die out or keep on bouncing
… and when you have questions, you know where to find me
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fossilj |
May 1, 2009 at 4:04 pm
The key is trying things out. Search the internet, there are so many interesting or just amusing things out there to play with. And, I don’t believe that anyone in the class besides Dr. Ransom is a technology expert. Some of us have just had some more experience. I know that we used some of these programs in high school, but some of the older classmates would not have had this technology when they went to school. That makes the difference. We have people all around us who are either new technologists, have been introduced to technology since an early age, or those who are digital natives. Those simple degrees of knowledge can make all the difference in what you know and don’t know about technology.