CEDO 555 Reflection #3

After meeting with Kris via Skype for our one-on-one chats, I felt much better about my Culminating Experience Proposal project idea. I was really struggling with what to do it on, but then it was like a lightbulb went on and I knew exactly where I wanted to go with the project. I've decided to really focus my project on sharing my instructional technology knowledge with parents, students, and staff. I am going to posting weekly to my blog about a new technology application that teachers can use in the classroom as well as hosting a parent/student technology night once a term. I'm excited about both parts of this project and look forward researching it and implementing the plan.

Working on the portfolio has also been going much better than I thought it was going to. I do still wish this project would have been explained at the beginning of the program so we could at least keep up with the course reflections as well as thinking about which artifacts to be included for each course in the portfolio. It has been challenging to think back to some of the courses that were taking over a year ago and remember all of the projects to choose from.

I'm excited to use my MEIT portfolio as a model for my PI34 portfolio. Using Google Sites has been much easier than I thought it was going to be as this is the first time I'm actually building a site with this application myself. I'm also excited about sharing my experience and my portfolio with my administration so they can see how I've used these web tools to build my portfolio. We (the system I work for) are looking to have students complete eportfolios but we haven't been really sure what form we want these eportfolios to take. Last year we adopted Google Apps for Edu so using the Google Tools like Docs & Sites would be perfect, especially at the middle and high school level.