Progress at Last!

Wk 5

I was so proud of my self in the tutorial this week!

I finally feel like I am making progress, real progress.

This week I learnt to

1) Use IMovie to record and edit video footage

2) Use Go Animate

3) Use Voki

4) Use Extra Normal

5) Use Animto

These are all fabulous tools that I can use not only for my Assessment video, but also in the future classroom.

This week I hit a wall, as I discovered my assessment partner had left the course. I was in panic mode, and Jason calmly suggested to me that I put out a notification on Google to find a new group.

Well, thank god for Google groups! I found a new group.

I met with my new group to have a meeting this week. We came together to discuss our plan briefly and to provide me with an update on what had already been done. My group was using Google Docs also to communicate, share information and add documents as they were created for our assessment. It would not come as a shock for me so say that we had decided to use Google Docs as our technology for our assessment. Using the program my self on an assessment really reinstated, just how great Google Docs was as a device to provide communication and collaboration in learning. We were collaborating, anywhere, any time, on line. It was great!

During the tute we looked at approaches to learning.  This was interesting to me, as it really linked in with a previous course I had done on Behavioral approaches. The lecture really allowed me to take my previous knowledge and apply it within a technology context. Each week it is becoming more obvious to me, how curriculum, pedagogy and technology are intergraded. (TPACK)

Balance seems to be the key.

References

Koehler, M. J., & Mishra, P. (2009). What is technological pedagogical content knowledge?

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 9(1), 60-70.