Final Blog: KWL

When I started this class I wanted to learn how to integrate technology into daily lessons without the lesson being about technology.  I also wanted to be confident using Web 2.0 tools with students and be able to demonstrate its legitimacy for teaching  and learning to colleagues and administrators. This class has forced me to take the tech plunge and begin to explore, to try, and apply the tech tools introduced.   I am so much more confident about how to manage all the information about technology through tools such as Diigo and Google Reader.  

This class was challenging for me because I had not yet utilized technology in my classroom

beyond the basic Web 1.0 tools such as word documents, e-mail, researching on the web, and using easybib and Wordle.  Although I had tried a few new things, like Glogster, this course gave me the required push to move towards Web 2.0 tools.  This course has consisted of me having lots of repeated exposure to the web tools that will support collaboration and communication which will become the foundation for the units I design next year around technology.

I would like to think that technology becomes integrated into lesson plans each and every day. I plan to explore more with Google apps and the sharing of documents with and between students as well as colleagues.  I’d like to see students using audioboo, wiki pages, and other tools to show what they know.