I think what I have found most important throughout this course is the reflection that I have done on my own work, as well as the evaluations that my peers have given to me. Whether you are assessing yourself, your peers or your students, you are diagnosing what you know and what you need to work on. Exploring technology and developing the knowledge to be able to create using technology is a wonderful tool to take with you anywhere. It's a new topic and there are a lot of people that are unaware of all the capabilities. I just told my husband about the pogoboards website because he deals with customers from many different countries. He now wants to explore and use this to put together a presentation in Singapore and France.
Bookmarking sites and keeping a running list of resources on my personal website and this blog are a great reference point to refer to when I need to research a topic for a lesson.
Following the blogs of my peers is not only fun, but it's interesting to see what take other people have when we research or listen to information on the same topic. Here are some blogs that I follow and have commented on either through the blog directly or via the Moodle website: http://2teachis2share.blogspot.com/, http://dougmaxwell.blogspot.com/, http://pam-pamelapc.blogspot.com/, http://thebrowns63.blogspot.com/
I am thankful that I had a teacher like Dr. Smirnova because she is genuinely excited about technology which in turn gets the whole class excited to learn. The advantages definitely outweighed the disadvantages when we had our online classes, and Dr. Smirnova never got frustrated.
Have a great summer and I look forward to blogging again in my Methods class.
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