Lesson 12- Reflection 3

After going through all the lessons in this course, i was proud of myself for already using and being familiar with some of them. I think overall, what i have taken from this course is a heighten awareness of technology in education. The School 2.0 lesson really helped illustrate this idea. I have many ideas for using most of the tools we learned in my instruction.

One main thing that i plan to do differently is really use my website more. I will make sure that students get a list of links (my website, blog) and have opportunities to use them throughout the year. I will also make sure that i go over what is on my site and how they can use it. This is something that i haven't done in previous years, despite having resources posted.

I also hope to get a blog going to use for critiques outside of class time. It will be a great way to post a video of an artist and have the students comment on it.

Something else that i picked up in one of the podcasts, was to have students research a topic as opposed to lecturing. There are many times where i just feed them info about an artist. I am looking forward to giving them a name, having them research and then asking them questions. I hope that this might motivate them (for small rewards of course:)). I get excited to learn about artists so somehow i would like to transfer that to them.


This course was very useful and i would recommend that every teacher take it! What a great way to learn about all the things our students already know!!!

Lesson 11- School 2.0

The thing that strikes me most about School 2.0 is how connected everything really is. There are connections between everything... students, their cell phones, classroom computers, teachers, parents, home computers, administrators, etc. The model works on getting EVERYONE (even the community) involved in a child's education, with the thought that it is an investment in EVERYONE'S future.
I think one of the best things is the access that students have outside of school... on their home computer and handheld devices. No more excuses for forgetting about the homework or not knowing they were failing.

It's hard to say what i would change because this is all pretty different from what we have now. We are definitely heading in this direction but this is an idealized model. I think it will be a while before we can get more students and parents (and some teachers) this involved. So as far as what to change, that is a really difficult call.

Overall it seems like a great plan, and i hope that we can someday get to that point!