Final Pause and Ponder

Personally, this class has been a window of opportunity for learning new skills related to recent technologies that will enable me to become a more effective teacher in this digital world. I set a goal at the beginning of the year to become more fluent with the newest technologies and this class was a challenging but attainable way to meet that goal. What I used to believe as hard or uninteresting, I now see as an opportunity and a possibility.

I want to develop in the integration of technology with 5th grade curriculum standards.

There are many ways that I can find resources now that I have been introduced to these technologies. For example, I will continue to live the life as a blogger and I will collaborate in educational social networks.

Even though I am tired due to the end of the year hussle and bussle, I remain eager to seek out more information related to the newest technologies. My plans for the future include taking more classes related to technology and making the time to grow and develop in digital teaching and learning.

At this point in the class, my professional abilities have been enhanced with the knowledge of the digital world including social networking, peer collaboration through digital means, and improvement of student engagement using the instrument of technology.

Thus far I have applied what I have learned in the digital writing class in my own class. I am currently working on a photo story about our field trip. It is almost complete. I have a few more narrations to record and I may put in music if it does not take away from the voices in the photo story. It has been fun. When I finish the final touches, I will give each student a copy.