Final Course Reflection

Blogfolio

This assignment was by far my favorite assignment this semester. I loved being able to see how much I had actually accomplished.  This tool can be used just about anywhere and can be adapted for multiple things.  I liked it especially because you can have something to show potential employers and they can see things that you are capable of.  This really helps because not only do you speak of what you can do but you have a visual aid.  It also helps you to reflect on what works in the classroom and what does not.  Some things that we learned will be harder for students to do and they will need assistance from the teacher.  This blog folio incorporates resources that the teacher and student can use.  These are vital tools that can help them succeed in learning.   I had trouble getting a few of the assignments to upload online but finally figured out how to upload them.  This assignment is something that I can keep with me and adapt throughout my career.  I will definitely keep this blog folio to be able to use these resources in the future.  Other teachers may even be able to use these in their own classrooms.  This particular assignment met all of the NET standards because students explored technology and adapted it to something useful and beneficial!

Assistive Technology Assignment

This assignment not only gave me tools and resources to use as a teacher but it also gave me real life experiences to relate to. We got to see what teachers do in the real classroom setting but then also decide what we would do ourselves. I think this will be incredibly beneficial because as we go through the education program, we will learn what is ideally perfect for each specific situation. This helped me to think and get out of the box, but as I learn my opinions and ideas will change. This should be used with all education majors because they need to know how to handle each and every situation that they may come across. There were also some tools used in this lesson that I was not familiar with and I know that I will use these in the future. Now I can experiment with these and begin to find the ones that are most resourceful for me. The lesson also gave opinions of teachers and made it more realistic and something that is common in every classroom. While working on this assignment, I also talked with other students to get their opinions on the issues. They had a lot of the same ideas but it also helped me to think more like a teacher. I adapted my opinions to fit the students and what was best for them. The standards that were used in this assignment were: 1. Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.

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TurnItIn Assignment

This assignment was particularly interesting because students get to use a vital tool that will help them in all of their classes. Students can type papers and get results back stating whether or not it is plagiarized or not. It is incredibly important for students to know what plagiarism is and how to properly avoid it. This site is an important resource that will help students to be able to determine what is and is not copied. Students can use this website for any class that they take whether it is in high school or college. This is a great resource to keep and continue using. Not only does this help students but it also helps teachers and helps them to recheck their students. They then know without a doubt that their student’s assignments are completely original. Students can also submit the assignment multiple times and properly quote sources to give proper credit to those people. This tool could be very useful in teaching nontraditional students how to write papers. A lot of them have been out of school for quite some time and need a little extra help as far as making it their own. Papers are not like they used to be nor is the education field. The standard used in this assignment is 1c. which states: promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes. This tool encourages students to write papers without worrying about possibly plagiarizing a source.

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