Metacognitive Blog

In my first blog I talked about how we had to do an assignment in class to come up with catchy titles for the different workshops. I also talked about the set up of the class and discussed needs assessments. In my second blog I talked about front end-analysis and a survey we had to do on emotional intelligence. I wasn’t very happy with the survey results. Finally I talked about how the affective domain is important for learning. In my third blog I talked about us taking our second quiz and also how we began working on the course design specification for our group workshop. I used my training reflection for my fourth blog entry. Basically in the training reflection I discussed the process of creating the course design specification and the process we went through to create the material for our own workshop. In my fifth blog I talked about another group that did their workshop presentation. I also talked about our own workshop and the annotated bibliography we had to turn in. In my sixth blog I talked about our workshop presentation in detail. I discussed the work we had them do for each of the Google tools that we chose to present on. In my final blog I talked about the Lowman Home workshops coming to an end, virtual high schools, and the CamStudio Video we had to create.

I’ve learned quite a bit this semester. Teaching another workshop really was a great experience. I felt like from the workshop we presented last year in 444 this workshop in particular was way better. I think we were definitely prepared better this time around. It’s great to put something together, have a successful presentation, and see that you’ve actually taught people something. I think my favorite thing about the class this year was learning about CamStudio. Other than not being able to edit the videos, it’s a really cool application for being free. Learning about the virtual high schools was also cool. If I had a kid I’m not sure I would allow them to attend that school, but it is definitely a nice idea. If they could come up with something to take care of the social aspect the kids are missing then I it could work, but until then I don’t see it happening. Finally, if I could give advice to future students in this class, I would say to make sure you check the due dates on the assignments and start them early. You do a lot of different things in this class, so it’s really easy to miss something and get overwhelmed.