My Final Reflections

I have come a long way! I really feel empowered and confident with all the tools I have mastered in this class. I must say that at times it was challenging and sometimes frustrating especially working on my second podcast when I had trouble balancing the voice level. New technology has always intimidated me, so hearing about audacity and lame literally scared me and the wealth of information really overwhelmed me! However, after countless trials and errors, I feel like I have accomplished a lot!

My favorite projects included Digital Story I, Podcast1 and Educational Poster. I enjoyed working on digital story 1 because in addition to learning how to use the tools, I was also able to reflect on my life past and present and make a promise to myself to balance my life and paint more, since the story was about my paintings and the joy it brought me. I especially liked podcasting since it would allow students that are uncomfortable in front of the classroom to express themselves on digital radio. I had a lot of fun creating my first podcast which was based on dialect from my country. It was both nostalgic and entertaining for me. I believe my students will have a lot of fun using this tool to express themselves. I will definitely be teaching my students to create informational posters for future projects like anti smoking campaign and “go green “campaign etc. I really enjoyed exploring my creativity while creating my let’s podcast educational poster.

I must also add that it was fun interacting with Will Richardson as a class, especially since skyping was new to me.

My least favorite project was the Wiki, maybe because in the beginning I did not fully comprehend how we were supposed to present the information. Then again, we were the second group to present and did not have a lot of time to collaborate with each other as a group.It went well though...and my team mates Robin and Linda were fun to work with.

Finally, I am happy that I took this class, since I have learnt all these new tools to use in my classroom. Although it was very challenging at times, the final product made me feel really confident enough to teach it to my students and to include it in my instruction.