Final Blog

This class was a great resource for me to get ready for my own class which starts Monday.  I am a little nervous but I feel I am pretty much prepared so it will be an interesting week.  This class I was uncertain what to expect coming in.  The past 2 classes were very odd to me because I needed to use resources that I have never used before such as Blogger and Wikispapces.  Even though I hardly knew about them and never used them after this class I feel they are great sites for educational use.  I decided to create a Wikispace for my new classroom at IHGMS and I am in the mists of putting it all together and trying to manage it at the same time.  It is something new for me to try but I actually do like it.  The biggest thing I took away from this class was digital citizenship.  I have heard about it in other classes and we brushed upon it a few times but I feel that we touched base on it at least every class even if it were 5 minutes.  I am definitely going to stress digital citizenship with every student that walks into my classroom door this year.  I need to have them understand how to properly use a computer for useful and educational purposes.  This course also made me understand about new and different things that I would otherwise never knew existed such as Pecha Kucha and the list of the digital tools you had use play around with.  This course was overall exciting.  I enjoyed learning about how to take your classroom and education globally.  Being able to see what else is going on in another part of the world is fascinating to me.  This class was very informative, rigorous at times, but mostly it was a fun and relaxing experience for education.