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There are a lot of things I have learned in the journey through this course. Some of it is new knowledge that I am excited about implementing into my classroom. Others are confirmation of my skills in certain areas.
The emerging technology assignment was my favorite because I feel like I learned the most from it. From perusing research and completing the activities, I have a whole list of ideas to use in my classroom. I am a third grade teacher, so any way I find to enhance literacy is a gold mine. Although I am still not sold on using wikipedia for research, I think it would be very valuable to create a wiki for my class. One idea I have is to use it as part of an author or genre study, with each student adding his or her part.
Until completing website activity I did not know the extent of my fluency in building a website. I maintain the website for my school, but it is simple to keep up with the way the county has it set up. It used to take me sometime to build a website, between adding all the links and finding the resources I needed. I picked the website activity because I was hoping to increase my capabilities. Now I know that I have what I need to complete a website easily and quickly.
Thank you!!! I hope everyone has a wonderful summer!