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Personal Reflection

Personal Reflection

Sharlene Kroneck

CEP-810

What are some things that you have learned about effective teaching strategies when integrating technology?

I have learned that cloud computing is a less expensive and easy to share documents

or projects. Learning about google docs, google presenter, prezi and other technologies have helped me to see what options are available to us. Blogger and twitter are great ways to communicate with the students. I plan to start a blog next week in one of my classes. One of the problems with teachers being able to integrate these technologies is

the cost of training, time, support and administration not allowing our students to use cell phones in class.

How did integrating the internet help you think about and evaluate uses of technology?

Using the internet to utilize the tools was the most important tool. Without the internet we could not be taking this class or be in this program. The communication would not be available and we would not be able to communicate with our classmates or teachers. The cloud computing is a newer technology which is in the infant stage. I believe this will be the new direction in technology. I was excited to see the micro-soft commercials on television advertising cloud computing.  Was happy that I understood what they were talking about. I asked my daughter if she knew what cloud computing was…. She did not. I explained it to her and felt good that I knew what it was.

Which of the assignments that you turned in do you feel really exemplifies good teaching and technology?

The SIG project was my favorite project it displayed good teaching and use of new technologies. Our group worked on the “video lessons” we demonstrated the use of chat, google presenter, google docs, animation and screenflow. During our time spent on this project we collaborated in chats in our google docs. As a group we set up times that best fit our schedules, one of our group members was from California and two of us were from Michigan. Being able to communicate through chats made it easier and much quicker than through email or discussion boards. This was a great learning experience for me. Being able to design a video for my students will be very helpful for a substitute and my students. It will also help keep the students up to date on their work if I am absent.

How have you met your goals established in your Personal Growth Plan?

 At the beginning of this class I was freaked out at the amount I needed to learn in such a short amount of time. When I learn something I need to take my time and learn it inside and out or I do not feel good about it. As the class continued and I was able to use these tools more often I became more comfortable with the tools. Using some of these tools in my SIG project and posting assignments to my blog, visiting my RSS to check my sites gave me a better understanding. After getting through the initial shock I am happy I have learned and had the opportunity was available to me.

 Do you have any new goals? What are your plans for reaching your new goals and your long-term goals after this course is over?

 My goals are to implement video lessons to my classes. I plan to use animation and screenflow to demonstrate my lessons. I would like to have my students make a blog to post and questions and answers about assignments. Another assignment I plan on implementing is having my student’s research tools to make a presentation. I will have them research google docs, google presenter, prezi, animation and videos. I will have them present what they have learned from the research to the class. I will video the presentations and send to other teachers so they are aware of these technologies. Then I will give the students options on which tools they would like to use for their presentations.

Flickr Picture

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/55173279@N08/5112573392/" title="Dallas sky by kronecks, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4085/5112573392_2e549fc7b1.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Dallas sky" /></a>

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Photo Attribution:

Image: 'Joystick base and circuit board'
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By: Rob Marquardt

 

 

I would be able to show my students the history of drawings in this picture is a blue print. It is a what they would think of as "old". Now days we print out our drawings we no longer use the blue print machines, these were primarily used on manual drawings. The red ink is how a checker (a position) not regularly used as much as in earlier day. We used to say if our drawings had a lot of red ink on it the checker bleed all over our job. This meant we made a lot of mistakes. To this day I do not usually check in red ink.

Copyright

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Copyright

Having knowledge about copyright is important but has many gray areas and not very many people are area of what is right and wrong. Copyright is to protect the owner/creator of a product. The owner would not want someone to take their design/product and reproduce it to make money from it. Anyone can use the Fair Use, commonly used in education. You can use material (video, articles, and pictures) to educate as long as it is being used to educate not to change the material or make money off of it. You should not make copies of something and distribute them. It is ok to view and research any material. When you belong to facebook, twitter etc, you are giving them the right to use what you have posted, as long as it was displayed while you were a active participant. If you want to protect your copyright review your options in Creative Commons. This gives you options on what you as the owner will allow others to do with your creations. Schools should educate the teacher on the latest copyright policies, post in copy machine areas, do not allow video’s to be reproduced and distributed.

Learning Styles

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Learning Styles (SK)

According to the chart I am first a visual learner then a tactile and in last place an auditory learner. I agree with the test but I did think the score would have been closer between visual and tactile. I feel I am a very hands on learner and doing is better for me. I am certain this is why my chosen careers have been in the engineering field and teaching the skilled classes I teach. I like to solve the problems by drawing and fixing rather then talking or writing. I love teaching my students these technical skills. I feel my learning style helps me be a better teacher. I need to know everything about my subject and what is involved before I feel I am good enough to teach someone else. I feel in my class I target all three of target learning style. Auditory is when I lecture on the subject, visual by demonstrating the lesson and tactile by the students doing the projects.

RSS Assignment

My RSS account is through Netvibes, I found this site to be then the other sites I played with. A few of the feeds I am following have to do with engineering. As a engineering teacher it is important for me to stay up to date with the changes in engineering. I can follow the new software updates, sample projects,  and job postings (what fields are in higher demand).One of the blog/feeds I am following is "Teacher's in Space" it is about a program for teacher's workshops held during the summer to promote space into the classrooms. I actually was involved in a summer program at MSU similar to this (introduced bioengineering) to classrooms. This year I had my student's do a presentation on all different types of engineering positions available. Student's were surprised at how many types of engineer's there are.