EDCI 5825 Wiki Final Integration Project Reflection

MsAsWorldLit Wiki

Do you plan on using your classroom blog/wiki in your future classroom? If so, what types of modifications do you envision? Please explain.
Yes absolutely! The more elements that I created and used on my Wiki (Final Integration Project) the more I realized how useful that will be in my classroom. It is truly important that students have a home-base to view work and find resources. The least it does, is strengthen the classroom community and develops a stronger teacher/learner mutual enhancement. It depends on what access my future students will have to technology of course, but I think that if possible I would like to include pages that students can edit or create themselves, in addition, a page for parents so they might be involved more in their students classroom experience.

Do you plan on having your students create their own blogs/wikis in your future classroom? If so, please explain.
I am not sure about this honestly. This Wiki project was very intimidating to me and it took a while to become familiar enough with the tool to be creative. I would not want my students to feel this frustration - like their creativity was road-blocked so to speak. But if I could find a way to incorporate Blogging in my classroom - students could work with creating their own blogs, I would definitely use Blogging because I think it is closer to the social-networking tools that students might already be familiar with.

Discuss the quality and appropriateness of what you have learned and created this semester.
Once I became familiar with the Wiki tool I really let loose creatively! It was so much fun to utilize skills that I had already mastered, works from other classes and just projects in general that I am very proud of, and incorporating them into my Wiki. It sounds dramatic to say but I will truly incorporate most of it when I become a teacher. For example, Power Point Presentations can be used as a guide in the English Classroom to focus students on objectives and goals for the day. Wikispaces can provide a home base for students, SmartBoard can help ELL, Diverse learners, Auditory and Visual learners classroom activities, online activities can foster application skills and help students relate to material, podcasts and internet workshops incorporate valuable technology skills. Each instance of technology can be used in my classroom, and when I have the opportunity to do so, I plan to implement them.

Evaluation of your comfort moving forward with technology
In the beginning of this course I truly felt overwhelmed by the amount of technology we would be diving into, however the structure of the class allowed us, as students, to learn, work with, play with and develop our own skills when implementing. Technology is the perfect link between classroom management, content, context and the 'Big Ideas' we aspire our future students to learn. I have learned as long as technology is used in an organized fashion, my classroom can truly be enhanced and an interactive place for learning. Now that I am more familiar with exploring technology I believe that I will certainly explore more in the future.
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