6.2 Reflection
Candidates regularly evaluate and reflect on their professional practice and dispositions to improve and strengthen their ability to effectively model and facilitate technology-enhanced learning experiences. (PSC 6.2/ISTE 6c)
Artifact: Weebly Blog
Reflection:
For this artifact, I selected my Weebly blog which I developed over the length of this degree program. The majority of these blogs were created for ITEC 7430, Internet Tools for the Classroom during the Spring 2014 semester. For each course I’ve completed since then, I have reflected on what I have learned and how it will help me to become an effective instructional technology coach. This artifact was completed alone.
Standard 6.2, Reflection states that candidates regularly evaluate and reflect on their professional practice and dispositions to improve and strengthen their ability to effectively model and facilitate technology-enhanced learning experiences. Throughout the creation of this blog, I evaluated and reflected on digital tools, issues in school technology, my own professional learning, and the valuable information I have learned throughout the courses in this degree program. I also reflected on issues in instructional technology such as equitable access, diversity, and internet safety.
Through the creation of this artifact I learned to share my thoughts and opinions through a blog. Prior to taking Internet Tools for the Classroom I had never blogged before. While I knew that people were posting blogs on the web, I was not really familiar with this form of writing and the conversations that blogs often prompt. While this blog was for the specific purpose of reflecting on this degree program, if I could go back and expand on this assignment I think it would have been interesting to create a blog for my classroom as well.
Using blogs as a tool for reflection could impact both faculty development and student learning. If teachers regularly blogged about current topics related to their class and/or subject area and encouraged students to share their thoughts and opinions by commenting on those blogs, this would encourage higher order thinking from students while they are outside of the classroom as well as keep teachers up-to-date on the latest news in their fields.
For this artifact, I selected my Weebly blog which I developed over the length of this degree program. The majority of these blogs were created for ITEC 7430, Internet Tools for the Classroom during the Spring 2014 semester. For each course I’ve completed since then, I have reflected on what I have learned and how it will help me to become an effective instructional technology coach. This artifact was completed alone.
Standard 6.2, Reflection states that candidates regularly evaluate and reflect on their professional practice and dispositions to improve and strengthen their ability to effectively model and facilitate technology-enhanced learning experiences. Throughout the creation of this blog, I evaluated and reflected on digital tools, issues in school technology, my own professional learning, and the valuable information I have learned throughout the courses in this degree program. I also reflected on issues in instructional technology such as equitable access, diversity, and internet safety.
Through the creation of this artifact I learned to share my thoughts and opinions through a blog. Prior to taking Internet Tools for the Classroom I had never blogged before. While I knew that people were posting blogs on the web, I was not really familiar with this form of writing and the conversations that blogs often prompt. While this blog was for the specific purpose of reflecting on this degree program, if I could go back and expand on this assignment I think it would have been interesting to create a blog for my classroom as well.
Using blogs as a tool for reflection could impact both faculty development and student learning. If teachers regularly blogged about current topics related to their class and/or subject area and encouraged students to share their thoughts and opinions by commenting on those blogs, this would encourage higher order thinking from students while they are outside of the classroom as well as keep teachers up-to-date on the latest news in their fields.