#20 Final Post

This class has definitely been a journey for me. For one, this was one of my first graduate classes and it was online. Having the class online was difficult. There was so much work to be done every week. Many times, it became quite difficult to handle. But I was able to get the class done. For that, I am proud of myself for enduring. The most beneficial portions of this class for me was the Database and Lesson Plan project. I was able to go above and beyond while investigating and probing to learn various kinds of technology to integrate into ordinary teaching tools. For the Database project, I learned how to merge documents and use Help to find what I otherwise did not know how to do. The Lesson Plan project gave me great ideas that I could use in my present classroom that would benefit my students. This class also benefited me by making me more aware of the various software that is avaialable for education, especially assistive technology.
The format of the course again was included a plethora of work that I feel had to be turned in too soon considering the amount of the work. I benefitted from the actual assignments, the timing is what inhibited me. In the future, I would make this a self-paced class since it is online. The only thing that would be due every week should be discussion board responses.
I am a very interactive person when I am face to face in a class, but online classes tend to "lose me". They are very difficult to maintain. I am also a person that needs to talk out a problem to get a solution. But with this online class meeting only once a month, I felt that I did not receive all the answers to my questions.
Overall, I have become more knowledgable of many more technology applications for education.