The Last Day :(

It's amazing how fast these last two weeks have gone. I can't believe how much I have learned about technology. I feel that I am ready to use what I've learned about social networking, Web 2.0 tools, TPACK and so much more in my own classroom.

I loved watching the digital stories today. I thought it would have been interesting to use TodaysMeet after each story to comment on things that the creator did well using the elements of a digital story. I thought it would have been interesting to use the Promethean board and the clickers to take a quick poll as to the element that we thought was best portrayed in the story. I can't wait to create digital stories in my classroom and post them on a blog for parents to see what we are doing in the classroom.

 A few days ago, Denise told the story about when she was teaching teachers at a school and a male teacher had said that he didn't want to fail in front of his students. I completely understand where he is coming from because many teachers don't want to be wrong in front of their students. With that being said, I think it is important to use technology that might be 'foreign' to a teacher because then the students and the teacher can work together to learn about the technology.

I feel that all future teachers should be required to take this class to help excite them about using technology in the classroom. To be honest, before this class I wasn't all that confident with some technology tools and didn't always use them in my lessons. With my new TPACK mindset and knowledge all I do is think of ways that technology can be innovated in lessons to help enhance the learning.