6.2 Reflection
Candidates regularly evaluate and reflect on their professional practice and dispositions to improve and strengthen their ability to effectively model and facilitate technology-enhanced learning experiences. (PSC 6.2/ISTE 6c)
Artifact:
Portfolio Blog
Reflection:
The
artifact I selected to represent my mastery of this standard is my blog which was
created throughout the course of my Instructional Technology program at
Kennesaw State University. Throughout the program, I blogged for each of piece
of my course work and numerous times during course ITEC 7430. Each of these
blogs are a reflection and evaluation of the knowledge, professional practice
and dissipations I learned during each course.
These blogs which are a collection of my blogs throughout the program. My blogs during the course ITEC 7430 such as Internet Safety and Social Networking, display my ability to facilitate and model technology enhanced learning. While each of my end of course blogs give insight and reflection on my professional dispositions. Creating and developing each of these blogs allowed me to reflect regularly on what abilities I learned and improved upon the course of the program.
While I have never been a blogger this introduced me to a new tool to reflect on my own learning and receive feedback from my peers. Receiving peer feedback made me aware if I was on the right track or did I need to readjust my thinking. I became more reflective. As an educator, many times we do not take the time to reflect on our own learning and improvement in our classroom instruction as we ask our students to do. I became aware the more I wrote the more meaningful and more aware I became of my own learning process. As I continued to blog, I become more aware this was a tool which I could incorporated into my own classroom to allow my students to express their opinions and receive feedback from their peers as well.
As I shared my blog through my Twitter feed, I began to see blogging as a tool which can be used within my school community for school improvement, faculty development and student learning. My peers at school would receive my blogs through their Twitter feeds as well and the topics I were discussing were relative to our school improvement plan and staff development in the area of instructional technology. Through my blogging this has opened the doors to this form of media being a tools for staff development along with developing professional learning networks as well. This impact can be assessed through the use of tools and resources mention in my blogs during instruction and learning in my own classroom. The modeling and facilitating of these technology enhanced learning experiences to others at my school will impact future technology integration at our school.
These blogs which are a collection of my blogs throughout the program. My blogs during the course ITEC 7430 such as Internet Safety and Social Networking, display my ability to facilitate and model technology enhanced learning. While each of my end of course blogs give insight and reflection on my professional dispositions. Creating and developing each of these blogs allowed me to reflect regularly on what abilities I learned and improved upon the course of the program.
While I have never been a blogger this introduced me to a new tool to reflect on my own learning and receive feedback from my peers. Receiving peer feedback made me aware if I was on the right track or did I need to readjust my thinking. I became more reflective. As an educator, many times we do not take the time to reflect on our own learning and improvement in our classroom instruction as we ask our students to do. I became aware the more I wrote the more meaningful and more aware I became of my own learning process. As I continued to blog, I become more aware this was a tool which I could incorporated into my own classroom to allow my students to express their opinions and receive feedback from their peers as well.
As I shared my blog through my Twitter feed, I began to see blogging as a tool which can be used within my school community for school improvement, faculty development and student learning. My peers at school would receive my blogs through their Twitter feeds as well and the topics I were discussing were relative to our school improvement plan and staff development in the area of instructional technology. Through my blogging this has opened the doors to this form of media being a tools for staff development along with developing professional learning networks as well. This impact can be assessed through the use of tools and resources mention in my blogs during instruction and learning in my own classroom. The modeling and facilitating of these technology enhanced learning experiences to others at my school will impact future technology integration at our school.
