Highlights

Some of the things that I learned from the class were different uses of technology, about different professional websites, and how to create a curriculum.

During this class, I tried to get out of my comfort zone and try out some new ways to deliver an assignment.  I had never used VoiceThread, Prezi, or created a Podcast.  By having exposure to these, I see many uses for them in a classroom.  One VoiceThread, you can have discussions with the students and they can give feedback to others.  For Prezi, older students can create cool looking presentations.  I would probably use a Podcast to place on my teacher website.  It could explain a lesson, an assignment, etc.

I was also able to do some researching on professional websites like Edutopia and Free Technology for Teachers.  They had great ideas that would make things so much easier in the classroom and ideas of things you can do in the classroom.

I am also more comfortable if I would need to create a curriculum.  In the past, I always had someone guiding me along the way, telling me what I had to do.  Now, I can work with others to help create a curriculum.  I just need to remember the "golden rule:"  if we figure out the goal we have in mind, we just work backwards from there to find out what students will be doing and what we will be teaching to get the students to that goal. 

I am hoping to keep this blog to be able to talk with other people about teaching, curriculum and different ideas that we can share. 

I think having a blog among teacher is out district would be a great idea!  We don't always get to see each other and this would be a great place to share ideas, clarify things that are going on, etc.  I may mention this to my administrator.  I think it would be great to have a place where we can share our ideas.