Closing Thoughts

As I look back on my opening post, I feel that I met all of my goals. Even though the course required a lot of assignments and hard work, I learned about technology tools that I will be able to use in my future classrooms and education. This course allowed me the chance to explore many ways of using technology in an educational setting and how to create lessons for students to develop their own technology skills. For example, my favorite assignment which I will definitely use in my classroom is the interactive spreadsheet. This tool was quite tedious to use; however, by following our exact directions, I was able to create an interactive quiz/assessment that will ease my grading and allow students to practice using technology. Also, the Web 2.0 presentations gave me a brief experience with multiple tools that a future teacher should try to use in the classroom. Overall, I will take many of the things I learned in this class with me through my internship and into my future classrooms. My apprehensions of this course where diffused quickly due to helpful peers and a great professor. Thank you for broadening my technology education and giving me so many tools to keep in mind as a begin my career as a teacher!