Week 5 R/D9

Technology-related tasks so far:
How challenging have you found them?
It has been a mixed bag. Some I have walked right through and others I go and come back to get a fresh perspective. Starting a blog was disorienting and scary. Would I be up to this challenge? How does it relate to what we are reading?

What support get you not get that you would have appreciated?
I think a whole series of screencasting tutorials would be helpful. The one on screencasting itself was tremendous.

Are you excited, frustrated, both?
When we started the class I was frustrated. It seem as though I had more questions than I could legitimately ask. Plus I had some bumps in the road in the game of life. Somewhere along the line I got comfortable and familiar with these cutting edge ideas. They are just so useful. Now I'm excited and hopeful that good things in lesson planning and researching general interests will come directly from this class.

Do you think you will find ways of incorporating some of these ideas in your professional work?
It would be foolish not to work these tools into organizing my thought, pictures, and documents. Ways of collaborating with this technology are endless. I especially want to take advantage of social bookmarking with people that tuned into the same research. In the classroom I like the idea of using created maps to be the centerpiece of large units that integrate subject matter. It could be expanded from there with blogging and using all the media that can be embedded in the blog.

For those of you who are fairly new to this masters program, how do you feel about this as first or early course?
I am early in a SPED LD program and I think this course is going to have a permanent influence on my studies, work, and family life. Plus I don't feel I will be as apprehensive when it comes to exploring the new technologies as they present themselves. Sounds like we have just the tip of the iceberg at this point in time. It's going to be exciting.
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