Reflection

This semester in IT 365 we did many different things that were new to me. First, we created a blogfolio at blogger.com. We, as a class, were introduced to gmail and many different things that google offered. Although I have had a gmail email address for quite sometime, I had no idea I could create documents, presentations, and sites using the link. All these things I learned through my IT 365 class. After we created a blogfolio, we began finishing assignments to upload to our blog. Our first assignment was a concept map. I used Ispiration to complete my concept map. This assignment was fairly easy once I learned where everything was on the site. The only problems I ran into with this assignment was changing the format in order to upload the concept map to my blog. We also used different websites to create rubrics, tests, quizzes, puzzles and more that we can use in our future classrooms. These were fun to create because I could make them my own. Google groups was probably the easiest assignment for me. This is where I learned about many helpful things that google offered to people with a gmail accound. The hardest thing for me this semester was creating the teacher website. I do not know why this was so difficult for me. I eventually figured it out. I think if I could get better at using the site I would use that in my future classroom. My favorite assignment of this semester was my movie. I really enjoyed creating this because I was comfortable with the assignment. I had already familiarized myself with making movies. For my movie for this assignment I attached music by Carrie Underwood because my movie was about a concert I had attended in Wisconsin. The concert was Carrie Underwood and Hunter Hayes. We also spent a week in Wisconsin visiting close friends. This assignment was a personal assignment for me and I sent copies of my movie to friends that were in the video. I learned many things this semester that I will use in my future classroom. I struggles with some things just because I was not familiar with them. I also gained patience through doing some of these assignments! I think my strong points came when I was able to be creative with the assignments and was familiar with what I was doing. I plan on integrating technology in my future classroom by creating websites to keep my parents involved. I also plan on taking pictures throughout the year and making a movie for each of my students at the end of the year.