I am loving all the technology I have been learning about through my enrollment in this course. My goals for future lesson plans include technology as often as possible. I have really enjoyed watching all the videos and TED talks. I now subscribe to the YouTube channel and geek out over the videos while I am on the treadmill at the gym. The Google+ community, prezi, popplet, and QR codes have been the most helpful to me. My students had their science fair projects due today and I was very pleasantly surprised to see two of my students who posted QR codes on their science fair boards! They linked the QR codes to helpful websites they referenced to help them with their science fair projects. Warmed my heart. I love hearing about my students using the StudyBlue.com flash cards, Chirp, and sending me messages in Google+. They are excited about using hashtags (#) in their posts and now the joke of the day in class is to listen for me to "hashtag" some part of my content delivery. This course has really helped me to extend my reach to my students on a more technical level. Working with the community member in DBL#3, he was very excited to see my students collaborating on a Google+ community and having to look up information using the online social network. Thank you for the opportunity and I have really enjoyed participating in the course. Learned invaluable information which makes my hectic teaching days much, much easier!
Some of my students presenting their popplet's...
I really appreciate how user-friendly Diane made the course. Especially since everything was done online. Diane, you did a fantastic job breaking the assignments down and making sure we knew step by step what we had to do to accomplish our assignment. June, and Diane McKee were fantastic about responding to any questions or concerns or technical issues I had. Thank you for easing my anxiety about technology mal-functions!
I would love to learn more about how to make the YouTube videos like Mr. Anderson on his videos. How do I interface my computer to create the short videos to help me flip my classroom? What is the best way to help me use technology to flip my classroom? - These are all questions I now am working through as I begin to use technology and flip my world upside down. :)
I also really appreciated the instructors, (Diane) being so flexible with our teaching schedules. With life, teaching, and using Student Leaders, Peer Collaborators, and Community Leaders, and a fall break to Italy, the scheduling became hectic! Thank you to Diane for your flexibility to help me succeed in this class!
Sincerely,
Chantel Dooley
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