EDLD+5364+Teaching+With+Technology+Reflection

Something I really liked about this class is the level of collaborative work we achieve during the last five weeks working as a team. The idea of having virtual metting trough a Google Doc has been an amaizing experience for me and I do not doubt all other team members feel the same way. Casey's leadership has been a key piece that has contributed to the success of this team. Also, the colaboration of the other members of the team has inspired me and helped me to put my best effort competing all the assignments and our project particularly. I am dreaming and picturing in my mind how my students could be working with a colaborative project using Google Docs as well as I had worked with Team 1 during this class. The implementation of Web 2.0 tools like our wikkis and blog were very useful and I look forward to implement those tools in my working environment to help students and other teachers to succed. One of my contributions to my team reflection was about the activation of students' previous knowledge, you need to help students activate their background knowledge and facilitate the process of connecting new information to what they already know so that they begin to see patterns and understand processes” (Pitler, 2007) "Reflecting back, we found the team project to be a very enjoyable and rewarding experience. It was definitely a challenge to come together since we all have tough schedules and full time jobs. One team member was inclined to drop out because of personal issues and that gave cause for further reflection."Team One(nd)One of the most important knowledge gains that is comming out from this class has to be with the implemmentation of WEb 2.0 tools. I consider myself a technology person that got with gigant enthusiasm the idea of getting an ActiveBoard and a projector installed in my classroom a few years ago. Since the beginning I implemented multiple aplications for the board and I ma sure my students have participated on its implementation in a very successfull and constructive way. Since this class, I learned how to implement Wikkis, blogs, Google Docs and Youtube videos created by myself or by my students and I consider this a great after and before mark for this class and for the whole master degree program.

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