Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Final Goodbye

a kitten waving goodbye
Ms. Averitt,
Wow, this semester went by fast.This class was extremely helpful and I plan to take what I learned and put it all to good use. I'm glad I had such a great teacher, who could explain things to where I could understand them, took their time and helped everyone in the classroom and not just a few people. You were very understanding and helpful this whole semester. You are a wonderful teacher and I hope to see you around some time.


Dear Classmates,
This semester is already over! can you believe it! it has flown by. I'm glad I had such a great, fun and exciting group of classmates to enjoy the semester with. I hope you all the best of luck going in to your teaching career!

God Bless,

Tiffany

EDM 310 SUMMARY

The first day of class I was so overwhelmed, when I read that sylabi, I thought WOW, there are so many projects, and I'll never get done with all of them, I don't know how to any of it. As the semester went on and I found out what a great teacher we had and that Ms. Averitt discussed and went over ever project, that's when I took a deep breath and knew that I would get through the semester.

All the projects that we discussed Blogging, was the one that I never heard of or even attempted for that matter, so I was really nervous. Come to find out I really enjoyed doing the post that were assigned and found that this blogging stuff could really be useful for when I become a teacher. Blogging is a neat way of sharing what you feel with different things, it would be a great tool for all the teachers to use it.

Presentations were a lot of fun, I thought. I enjoyed listening to every one's about me presentation, you really get to know who they are and what they are all about during this presentation. You can really get to be yourself, and have fun with that presentation. Our Professional Presentations were also a lot of fun. I personally, learned a lot from each and every presentation that was given. Some had some useful information that I didn't know or wasn't sure of. I think these presentations should be kept in the curriculum for this class and maybe add another fun one for the students to do so they can get use to standing in front of an audience.

Excel, I think was my favorite project of all. Excel was so helpful and I learned how to do tables and do the grade book, that I have yet to learn in any of my other classes. The formulas weren't that difficult once you got the hang of it. I think it's my favorite because I know that when I become a teacher it's going to be the most useful thing that I've gained from this class and will help me.

Our podcast was so much fun! Heather and I had a lot of fun planning our podcast. What to say, the format, what was going to be the topic, how we were going to present it. While doing the Podcast, it gave me so many ideas for when i become a teacher that I can incorporate it into my class, and have fun with it with my students.

PLN's, well I'm going to be honest! I didn't really like this project, you encountered a lot of difficulties during this assignment. Some of your better contacts wouldn't respond or they wouldn't answer your question in one email so your playing email tag, I thought that it wasn't a useful or helpful assignment to do for this class.

Comment4kids, LOVED IT! Reading all the students post and had to hear what they said in some of them was fantastic! I enjoyed commenting on these students, they were so funny, they brought you back to when you were little, and believe it or not they have a lot to say, and its funny what they find interesting. I wished we had more students that we could have commented on. I would leave this in the syllabus.

The videos and websites that we visited was awesome. Most of the videos we watched said a lot of interesting information that opened my eyes. The websites like, ACCESS and Alex were great sites to visit. I'm so glad that we had to research and know more about them, they are great resources for teachers and I would recommend them to anyone.

This class has taught me so much, that I probably would of never learned anywhere else. I'm excited that I learned everything I did and think that it will all do some use. The only thing that I didn't like in this class was the PLN's. I wouldn't say that the class was exciting but you were always busy working on your projects and trying to keep a good pace so you wouldn't get left behind. I was a little bored at times, mainly when I caught on to something that others may not and I had to sit there and wait for those to get what we were talking about. Other than that we had a pretty cool class and we all had a good time. i didn't find anything to be Intellectually Challenging, It was all simple if you read and followed directions. As I said before the only thing I didn't enjoy was doing the PLN. I would probably delete that from the course all together. I think I'm SOMEWHAT technologically literate, but know I could learn a lot more. I think that some of what we went over I will still continue to do when I graduate and when I start teaching. I have learned a lot from this class and will put it to good use.

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