project9

~Project 9~
Reflections on the Learning Experiencs of the Technology course

    This technology course has taught me alot and I have grown so much since the beginning of the semester. My patience has grown more than anything, it is so frustrating some times working with computers and having something go wrong.   I have picked up alot of technical skills from this course, I learned how to use Microsoft publisher, I learned how to make a webquest, I learned how to use puzzlemaker.com, I have learned so many technical skills that I will be able to integrate in my classroom curriculum. The technoligical skills that I learned are things that children will love to try, they will intrigue the children and then the children will not even realize that they are learning while they are playing.   I feel comfortable witha ll of these technological skills, there isn't one that I wouldn't feel comfortable teaching to students.
    The most important thing I learned in this course was all of the technology that Shufang taught us. This technology is so important to incorporate into today's classroom activities because of the technological advance of our society today. By teaching the students how to use this technology, they are then at hte level of today's society.
    Some of the exciting experiences that I had were learning all the cool stuff that we could do, some of the frustrations that I had with this course though were the technological difficulties. Some times I would try and make a page and a picture would not show up on it, however you may have had to wait a day or two for it to fix and there would be no reason why.
    We have used both teamwork and individual work in this classroom and both have worked out well. On our WebQuest project we worked in a group of 5 students to make a technological quest for the students to learn about the rainforest. Another project we did was the puzzlemaker. I did this project all by myself, and that has some advantages compared to working in the group. In a group, you have to check in with the others, get the work done in a certain pace. But, working by myself I could work at my own pace and only had to check in with myself. However, working in a group has a greater advantage of ideas. When you work in a group, there are so many more great ideas that you can come up with.
    Working in small groups is powerful, there can be a greater exchange of ideas. This is a great thing to use in your classroom. Because your students can learn so much from working in groups, they can learn to collaborate, they learn to respect each other, they will have a wealth of more ideas.
    I can use all of these technology tricks that I learned in this calss in my classroom. The students in my classroom can also use all of these technological tricks. They will benefit from working in groups, they will learn so many technological tricks, and they will be valued so much by those technological tricks they learned.