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Course Reflection

 * 1. What outcomes had you envisioned for this course? Did you achieve those outcomes? Did the actual course outcomes align with those that you envisioned? **

I envisioned that this course would teach us how to use tools on the web and different technologies to teach students. I thought that it would give us different techniques and examples in various settings. I think that the outcomes were achieved by this course. I found the videos to be extremely helpful. Seeing how other schools and teachers are using technology to influence their students to learn has reinforced what I have been trying to do and in some cases have started doing with my student trainers. The course lectures, readings, and assignments also gave good information to use in building lessons for the classroom. I believe that the course outcomes did align with my vision of the course. The course gave me more and different ideas to use in my non-traditional classroom setting. The class has made me more aware of different ways to reach my students when classroom time is not readily available.


 * 2. To the extent that you achived the outcomes, are they still relevant to the work that you do in your school? Why or why not?**

The results of the course and what I got out of the course is extremely relevant to what I am doing in my classes with my student trainers. I have been working for years to try to convert my athletic training lessons into an online type class. Athletic training class time is basically used for treatment and care of the athletes so the student trainers get a lot of hands on training. I needed to find a way to reach my students with lessons in a fun way that they could do when they had extra time. The course basically reinforced what I was already doing in my class in some cases and in other cases it has given me ideas of how I can change or tweak some things that I was doing. It has also given me ideas of how to use the Google sites and other web 2.0 tools to increase my ability to teach and reach my students effectively.


 * 3. What outcomes did you not achieve? What prevented you from achieving them? **

The outcomes that I may not have achieved are the full understanding of some of the concepts and how to use them in a school setting when it comes to technology. I am not sure how I can present some of the information such as using Google pages to be used by a school. Schools have not been real receptive to the use of technology when it comes to using the internet. Previous courses have talked about internet safety and what is involved with keeping kids safe on the internet but that I do not think was covered in this course. If there were an explanation of how this could be accomplished in the course I feel that I have missed it and in turn that would be why I did not achieve all the outcomes I expected from the course.


 * 4. Were you successful in completing the course assignments? If not, what prevented or discouraged you?**

I was successful in completing all of the assignments in the class. I do not think that there was anything as far as the course goes from preventing me from completing my assignments. All the materials were easily accessible and the links all operated. The one catch was that I could not watch You Tube videos at school because they are blocked by our school filtering systems. I was a little apprehensive about the group project because it was working with individuals that I did not know but the final project was great and it helped me to learn how to use the Google site to my advantage. As a group we were able to share and collaborate on all of our information and the Google site was very easy to work with as well. Our group did not use a wiki site to communicate but I think that the Google site worked just fine.


 * 5. What did you learn from this course: about yourself, your technology and leadership skills, and your attitudes?**

I learned that I should be more confident in what I know about technology and how I am using it in my class and with my student trainers. I think that I am pretty confident in my use of technology. I am a technology junkie. I just need to be more confident in the application of the technology to my teaching. My attitude has changed because I think that I have gained more confidence in my ability to use the technology more effectively. As for my leadership skills, I think that I would be okay in any setting being a group leader. I am just more confident when I am working with people face to face. There are some things, such as body language, that you cannot observe from online collaboration. I have learned that you can be effective and create good lessons in collaboration as long as people are open minded and willing to give and accept suggestions.