After only two assignments in this course I feel like I have already learned a lot. The assignments so far have allowed me to reflect on myself as a teacher and as a learner. It has been valuable for me to read other posting of comments, questions, and assignments of my classmates. I have found that I have a lot of the same feelings about learning as they do and I definitely think that I have had some of the same questions as them.
After the first assignment of writing about our theory of learning I found that I have a lot in common with the majority of students in this course. It seems that like me most of my classmates learn best through hands-on meaningful activities. After having this discussion I found it very ironic that we as teachers are such strong learners ourselves. It seems that all of us a continuously learning whether it be at school or through any other area in our life.
Our second assignment was to create a list of all technologies we have at our school. I emailed our technology leader for our school to ask her for a complete list. I am very embarrassed to say that I was not aware of several of the materials (both hardware and software) that we have available in our building. I hope to be able to take advantage of some of them this upcoming school year. As for my group on Blackboard I feel like we have a very good list so far. We are still determining how we are going to categorize everything. I think it may end up being a little harder than I had first thought because there are going to be so many ways that they could be divided up.
So far I am really enjoying this course. I have already learned several new things (creating a blog) and I am looking forward to everything else that is to come.