Final Reflection

Well, well well....TPTE 486 is over for me. This class was very helpful and a very interesting class that I'm glad I got the opportunity to take. Having this as a required class for teachers is a huge asset for them because it teaches so many different techniques to provide a more entertaining teaching style. I really liked working with inspiration and the digital stories. I feel like as a future educator I want my classroom to be fun and exciting but very hard working. The inspiration application was so interesting and would be great to use in any classroom teaching any subject. I like that is was very mobile to what the user wanted and very colorful and different than the normal powerpoint. I liked iMovie and working on the digital story because I am a journalism major and I like creating stories that have a purpose. For teaching, each movie would obviously have a purpose I could just add pictures and creative aspects that I might not be able to use in other applications. An application that I enjoy but won't use in my classroom would probably be wordle or twitter. As much as I liked both of these, twitter is more for personal use in my mind and wordle seemed confusing and I feel would be confusing to the students. Overall I learned a TON about technology and how to make my classroom more technology friendly for my students and me. It really showed me that there are easy ways to make things more interesting. oh yea and the teacher was great too!!