Class Reflection

Well, I told you I would try to get this done by the time you were off the grid in Alaska and I did it. I want you to know that I truly appreciate you support through this. I want to teach and having a situation that threatens to take me away from teaching makes me realize so much more how important to me it is.

I enjoyed this whole experience. Yes, sometimes I would work until 5:30 p.m at school and then come home and work on this class until 10:30 p.m until I could not keep my eyes open and had to crawl into bed only to rinse and repeat the next day but, as I said earlier, I started to realize that this class was impacting me when I found myself taking the things I was looking at or creating and discussing them with my principal or my coworkers.

I did find that I am very experienced with technology but there are still areas that I am unsure how to incorporate and so I found that this demanded time of evaluating technology helped me wrap my mind around areas I felt insecure about.

I have already naturally created a teaching community outside of  where I work. I have now worked at 4 different schools and sadly enough I know that I have not work where best practices are being held. I have always felt more inspired by teaching blogs and pinterest projects that I can find.  I have emailed a couple women from the blogs that I follow to get advice and the really neat part is they will respond and really want to help. Understanding that that we are trying to bring the best into the classroom is really a bonding factor that spreads beyond the fact that we don't know each other.

One of the other joys I found in these was also bouncing ideas off of you. It was fun to go back and forth with ideas or findings...even when I would send so many emails at a time that you could not respond to one.

There are some classes that have to be taken that make you wonder how and when you are going to use the information that you are spending so many hours on. This class is done correctly because every project I had to complete was something very relevant to todays classroom. You can quote me on that if you need to reassure this incoming class.