final thought

As an educator I feel that I have a lot of work to do to become more connected and move into the 21st century of education. I am happy that I took this course because if not I might not even have the sense to realize that I need to move forward in my educational practice. This class made me realize so many different things about education, there are many tools and resources out there that are here to help us not hinder us. As of right now I do not have any questions but I am sure in the future some will arise as I embark on new technology, and I am glad to know I have some resources and people that can help me along the way.

Response #4 Planning and Implementation

For me it is difficult to plan for some of the web 2.0 tools that I have come across. Like I said in other blogs I first have to see if my district will let me use it and if it is accessible for all the students. After that I feel that it takes a while to really learn some of the tools and for me personally I want to have a very clear understanding before I show the students, so if any issues or misunderstanding come up I will be able to help them work their way through it. I think that once you have a complete understanding of the concept the implementation shouldn’t be difficult as long as you thought about all the parameters of the lesson. For example there are certain tools I feel would be very difficult to implement with a large number of students and some tools witch are not easily manipulated so I think when you are creating a web 2.0 tool for the classroom you need to think about the pros and cons that could impact learning as well as time and effort that you as the teacher have to put forth. Over the past seven weeks or so I have learned so much in class as well as from my classmates about the wide and interesting variety of tools that are out there for us and our students. At first I was a little leery about all of these web 2.0 tools but now that class is coming to an end I really want to try a few of the things I learned about in the school years to come.