Course Reflection

Course Reflection

This  course was a great  learning experience for me.  I’ve learned many different things about technology that I can use in my everyday life and also incorporate it in my classroom.  One of my favorites was blogging.  I had heard of blogging before this class, but I really never tried it out.  I like the idea of posting my thoughts and other people are able to comment on it.  This could be great for the classroom if I wanted to post a question for an assignment.  Blogging could allow the entire class to comment on it.  I also found podcasting to be very neat.  I actually enjoyed creating  one.  It could be a fun and effective way for teachers and students to create school projects.  Overall I really enjoyed this class and I learned a lot.

Assessment Tools

Assessment Tools 

I gained knowledge of a few assessment tools through this course.  I feel that by learning about these tools it will benefit me as a future teacher and as a college student.  The electronic portfolio is an assessment tool.  My electronic portfolio will take the place of a normal standardized test.  I think this type of assessment is good because it allows me to work on my grade over time, it allows the teacher to see what I’ve been working on all year.   Rubrics are a really good assessment tool as well.   When using rubrics it allows the students to know exactly what you expect of them.   A lot of assignments in this course were graded with rubrics.  I liked this idea because I was able to see exactly what my assignment was worth and how the points were broken down.