Wrapping It Up!!!

In what ways have you grown as a professional while taking this course? How can you use the knowledge gained to increase your leadership within the corporation?

I have grown as a professional in the use of technology for my classroom through this online class.   I have learned how exciting technology can be when you know how to curiate information.  I find myself using my Symbaloo page daily and adding to it several times per week.  I find myself feeling more at ease and confident using technology.   

I feel better equipped to share information with other teachers who have questions about how to incorporate technology in their classrooms.  This summer I spent eight hours with a teacher from our elementary school sharing the tools I had learned in this class.  She was ecstatic to learn more about technology for her classroom and has taken the information to task in her classroom this school year.  She has built her own website and created Symbaloo pages for each of her students.  We worked on some projects together and it was exciting.

I enjoyed Module 4 New Tools = New Rules and Model 5 Adaptation and Engagement  the most because they gave me hands on tools and ideas to use and share.  I also learned the online protocols from our weekly Blogger activities in the Reflection Rubric. 

I have found the Blog entries enlightening and informative.  I feel that I have gotten to know my fellow teachers better through this activity.  That really is counter to what I thought at the beginning of our experience together.  I THOUGHT that face to face conversations were always the "BEST". I now see that online reflections give  everyone time to think about what they want to say, tweak it and publish what their thoughts really are rather than having a quick conversation and saying what comes to your head.

I have tried to do my best in this online class, as I do daily in my classroom, and I know failure will come.  BUT, through that failure I will learn and grow as a professional and as a person.  If I am not failing I am not doing anything new to challenge myself and my students, especially in the use of technology .  And with that I say "Let the Failure Begin"!  Happy School year Everyone!