Final Course Reflection

Most certainly, I have engaged in some major professional growth in the last few months.  ISTE 5a  participate in local and global learning.  I attended the CUE conference this summer because of my connections in the class.  My brain hurts from all the growing I've done.  ISTE 3c Collaborate with students, peers, and community members using digital tools.  Our class blog is up and running because of the gentle push to create and model digital learning.  My students are sharing their work and academic successes with parents and family members through our blog.  I resisted using Remind.com last year because I thought Classdojo was just fine for communication.  The delay feature on Remind has been very helpful in monetary and time saving measures.  I'm using Google docs to create timelines for field trips and flexible grouping for parent chaperones that both Kathy and I can view and alter.  Before our "field trip" at school Monday, we sat down and created a google document that was shared with administration and the secretaries.  I was able to edit my groups at home, and the document was done before the secretaries saw it, probably not before Lara saw it because she's miss prompt pants:)  Miss Lovely Lisa Sedgewick helped me create an assignment with our new math curriculum.  She even showed me how to changed the passwords to something all my students can remember, who creates a program that will not let you print out passwords, you must remember them as you type them, oh happy day I love remembering things, NOT.  We will be taking a math test online, first time for me, when we are done with this GLAD training.  My student project had my students working as project teams to produce original works that will be posted on our blog Friday. They were proud of their work, it was cute, and they transferred their learning to digital media by working on the project. After taking the final course reflection I noted many areas of growth.  Months ago I was learning to design digital age learning experiences and assessments, and now I am integrating them into my practice.  Before the course I felt like a novice creating digital learning experiences for my students.  I thoroughly enjoyed developing the digital age learning math experiences with my students as part of the class project, and I am able to integrate these practices into my pedagogy.  As I posted the videos on our class blog over the weekend, I was able to communicate with parents and students, yet continue with the district professional development this week. This allows time to communicate relevant information and ideas with students and parents on a regular basis, which I was learning to do before this course began.  I'm working on incorporating all of these strategies into my teaching on a regular basis.  We've expanded our Pinterest boards to one shared 2nd grade GLAD board.   I still prefer Facebook over Twitter but I may move to the dark side :) someday just to see what it's all about #curious. Here's my Prezi reflection of the course.  Some items have been repeated in another format, and I'm rather proud of these accomplishments because I've been working toward communication like this for several years.
Final Reflection Prezi