Week4AssignmentReflection

EDLD 5363 Video Technology and Multimedia   This course was the first course in which I participated in a web conference; that was truly a learning experience. I learned these web conferences are a great tool to collaborate with those near and far. This give everyone a chance to share ideas and have a “virtual” meeting. I find that more gets accomplished with a web conference than an actual face-to-face meeting. There seems to be less room for distractions and side bar conversations.  This course gave us the opportunities to use video editing software to share digital story telling. This is a great tool that can allow for group processing or can lend itself to a project for one purpose. The course gave me information that would be useful to use with my elementary students. Students who are struggling writers can find a way to write through the use of digital storytelling. It is a great chance for students to express themselves in a way other than a pencil and paper format. It could also give the students an opportunity to work collaboratively in a group project. It’s important for students to have opportunities to work with each other. The only complications I see that could arise are the fact that the students could have large disagreements and possibly not complete a project. The software may also take some time for the students to understand and would take some time to teach the students, especially students in the lower elementary grades.   EDLD 5365 Web Design  In this course we were required to know what it takes to create a web policy. This is a very difficult task that involves a large group of people in order to research other web policies which involves a lot of group processing which would require different teammates to perform different tasks. The web policies should encompass the technology facilitation and leadership standard six. This standard encompasses the teaching of social, ethical, legal issues and responsible use of technology.  This is over of the courses we most heavily used GoogleDocs. This is a great tool in order for us educators to be able to be able to share documents and collaborate both near and far. I could see how this could useful for teachers even on the same campus since we all have such different schedules and it’s easy to access.  We learned the basics of building a website. There is a lot more that goes into building a site than I had imagined. The amount of planning involves many people to ensure that the site is easy to use and to navigate. The web-designers need to ensure that the site is well laid out with pertinent information to those who will be navigating the site. This class made me realize, and appreciate, the time and effort that goes into designing and building a site. As much as I learned, I still don’t think I feel very confident in building a site. I’m used to building simple webpages for my classroom, but planning a site takes a lot of planning. I know if I were to be in charge of that I would need quite a bit of assistance as it would be my first time.   Williamson, J. & Redish, T. (2009). ISTE’S technology facilitation and leadership standards : What every K-12 leader should know and be able to do. Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education.