Final Thoughts

One of the objectives for this course s to get you thinking and reflecting upon various aspects of technology in teaching and your classroom. As a former social studies teacher, my preference would be to have classes once every week or two in a real clssroom and sit down to discuss many of these issues. However, the reality of the course and the amount of computer work that is involved means that we simply don't have the time to spare for this activity.

In this past I have tried written reflections as a part of each project/assignment. I have also tried the use of the discussion forums in WebCT. This semester, I have tried the blogs. This has meant that you have not had a guide to use from previous semesters to let you know what I have expected, but overall I think that what you have written has been well thought out and the type of reflection that I have been looking for.

For the last four days of the class, for your final blog entry, I would like you to answer the following five questions:

1. Which blog prompt was the one that you were most interested in?
2. Which blog prompt was the one that you were least interested in?
3. If I were to drop one to two blog prompts, which one(s) would they be?
4. If you were to advise me on one to two blog prompts that I should never drop, which one(s) would they be?
5. Are there any topics dealing with teaching in the classroom that you would have liked to have discussed?

For each of these questions, please do not just write the name of the blog prompt, but include two to three sentences on why you selected that prompt.