Course-Reflections-5363

Respond to the following questions on your wiki.  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 had envisioned learning about different programs I could use for the video class I teach at my school. I also wanted other ideas for different projects my students could take on. Lastly, I wanted to make other contacts through this class to help me with ideas for my students. I did achieve these outcomes as I found a lot of good programs and readings that my students can benefit from in my class. I also have already started having students create their personal story and they are beginning work on a PSA that will run at our school. The last outcome was getting help from others and by working with the group I will now be able to contact people from different grade levels. Yes, the course outcomes aligned with those that I envisioned and they were achieved throughout the course. This course will help me actually make the class that I am teaching more interesting and have a more developed focus and purpose.  2. To the extent that you achieved the outcomes, are they still relevant to the work that you do in your school? Why or why not? These outcomes that I have achieved are very much still relevant to the work that I do in my school. I teach a multimedia class at my school and this course has helped me develop things for my own class. I will take some of the readings from this course because they are good teaching points for my students. I will also use some of the programs that were shared throughout this course because some of them are free and my students can use them at home and not just at school. The projects that we had to do in this course will also be good things for them to work on and create for themselves. This course also shows the importance of communication and working together which are two things that my students need to work on. This course had a lot of good materials that will fit in nicely with my class and I believe that my students will benefit greatly from the lessons that I have learned.  3. What outcomes did you not achieve? What prevented you from achieving them? One outcome that I do not think I achieved to the best of my ability is “assist others for continual growth and expertise in technology operations and concepts.” I do not know if I really hit his outcome the way that I would have liked because I have equipment that others can learn from and use. This being an online course, I was unable to allow others to use that equipment and experience them first hand. I was able to explain things to them but they just had to hear and see the final result. I always think that for growth dealing with any technology, it needs to be a hands on experience if you are trying to teach them something. With an online course people could be several hours away from you and with that being said they would be unable to use some of the equipment first hand and grow and have expertise in this area.  4. Were you successful in completing the course assignments? If not, what prevented or discouraged you? <span style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.0pt; mso-hyphenate: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I believe that I was successful in completing the course assignments, however there were times where I did feel a little discouraged. There were places where things were left a little vague but as a group we were able to figure things out for ourselves. There were times where people, including myself, could not meet for our groups but we worked passed that and came up with a good Public Service Announcement. For the most part, the assignments were pretty straightforward and what we needed to have in them was in the rubrics, so it was easy to see what I messed up on and what I had to do to not make the same mistake again. Another reason why, I believe, I was successful with the assignments is they were meaningful to what I am doing at my school. I will be able to take these assignments and apply in my class and have my students create the same type of projects. <span style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 13.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 5.0pt; mso-hyphenate: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: -13.5pt;"> 5. <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">What did you learn from this course: about yourself, your technology and leadership skills, and your attitudes? From this course I learned a lot about myself. I like to have control over what is being produced and how a project is being ran. This course and one of the assignments made me work with another group where I was not calling all the shots and I had to learn and grow as a group member to make sure that everything was successful. With regards to learning about technology, I was able learn some new programs and am able to share those with my co-workers and students. This course has helped me grow in leadership skills by being able to direct people and make sure things are happening the correct way which was a big part of making sure our PSA turned out the correct way. My attitude changed from one who just wanted to work alone on a project to someone who was willing to work with others and get as many ideas from them as possible. With their ideas and my ideas flowing together I believe we created a great PSA. I also learned a lot about copyright law through the creation of the PSA.