Kim+Thurston

5/21/2008 This is our last class and here is my reflection. I have found this class to be informative and helpful. I actually think it would have been better if it had been every week or every two weeks until it was done. Meeting once a month was difficult in the fact that I would forget what we did last time because it had been so long since our last meeting. I learned how to do a webpage and actually have one almost completed that I am pretty proud of. I know I will want to expand it, but I think it has a good start. I am still a little confused about wikis, blogging and moodle, but I know that this course was more of an overview of those things. I know I can learn a great deal more about wikis, blogging and moodle if I take the summer bootcamps on those subjects. I really liked the thinkfinity.com website, and I am going to look for things on that website that I can incorporate into my math lab. In checking out some of the links from the thinkfinity.com website, I found some interesting looking web projects that I want to explore further. The thinkfinity.com website had some interesting interactive learning activities that I may want to try out. Voicethread was something I had never heard of, but is something I would like to try and find a way to use to help my struggling math students. I have some ideas running around in my head about how I can use my new video camera. Maybe I can have my students teach a math concept on video to send to a 5th or 6th grade student or class. I really would like to find some powerful ways to use technology to really help my struggling students. Thank you, Sharon for your help during Tech Cadre 1.

4/16/2008 I have almost completed my webpage. I have only one page still under construction. As far as the voicethread goes, I like it and I think it can be useful, but am unsure how it will work with my math lab at this time. I feel I am not that creative when it comes to using technology (besides graphing calculators and such) in math classes and my math lab. I don't want to use techonology jsut fo the sake of using technology, I want it to really add something to the learning. I find that I have a difficult time finding ways to enhance math learning with technology.

Kim - I, too, find your webpage very easy to navigate and use. Great job. Starting in February, we should begin to expand it. Sharon

1/23/2008 During the last class we learned how to make a webpage. Since the last class, I have worked on my webpage. I have almost completed my entire webpage,and I am quite happy with it. I feel it is informative and easy to maneuver around the webpage. I haven't worked on my webpage for a time now, so I have to refresh my memory on how to do a couple of things so that I can finish the webpage.

11/14/2007 I have learned how to use a Moodle and how to create a Wiki account. I know I still have a great deal to learn.