Personal Learning Reflection

-During this course i have learned many effective teaching strategies when integrating technology. I have learned that you need content and expertise as well as a strategy of teaching before you adapt in a technology into your lesson. I also learned that it just because you have a technology doesn’t mean you have to use it. There are an ever growing amount of different resources and technologies out there that can be adapted to whatever your lesson is about. But it is very important that you have a goal of what you want your students to get out of using that piece of technology. It is also important to be flexible in your implementation of the technology, you might expect or want your students to use a specific technology for one thing and it either might not work the way you expected it to or your students might have ideas of other ways it could be used.
-Integrating the internet opened up new resources and ideas of new and old technologies. The internet allows you to research a technology and then see how others that might have different ideas and/or more experiences are using the same technology. The internet also allows you to look into what other people might have had issues with, and depending on the solution they reached might push you to another technology or allow you not to have the same issues in your implementation of the new technology.

-I feel that the assignment we did on RSS pages exemplifies good teaching with technology. It is a new technology to me and I have been using it to keep up on new technologies and news related to the automotive Field that I'm teaching. It gives me new news that i can look at at a glance and if it might be interesting or have information for my class.

-In my personal growth plan I stated that I wanted to integrate more 3D learning. Through my class CEP-810 Ive gained knowledge on smart-boards and would like to integrate one into my classroom. I and one other class member I work with are also thinking about making a digital lesson or pod cast for a group of lessons for one of our auto classes.

-I’m well on my way of meeting my goals I set forth on my personal growth plan. I have started using more online resources and “cloud networks” in my teaching rather than just paper print outs.

-In the long-term I would like to get a smart-board for my classroom and transfer more of my lectures to online and “cloud networks” so I have access to them form more places.
I also plan on continuing on in the CEP classes and completing my masters’ degree.