EDLD 5352 - Week 5 - Reflections Part 2

Week 5 – 5.2 – Reflections & Status Report

·      Reflections/Status Report of Tech Skills/Knowledge gained in this course: 

o   This course was helpful in allowing me to have my technology toolkit refreshed.  We were required to review Web 2.0 tools and share this information with our team members.

o   Google Document – we were required to use a Google document on which to collaborate with our group members.  I can see that this would have been useful to a person who had never used a cloud based storage to share documents with peers.  It is very similar to the Dropbox account I have been using for a while.

·      Campus-Supervised Internship Activities –

o   This summer, I have completed one task on my internship plan.  This task was the creation of my three year professional growth plan which I completed during my last course.

o   I am nearing the end of my internship and have 7 more tasks to complete.  With school starting soon, I have no doubts that I will quickly finish these 7 tasks.

·      Action Research Project –

o   My Action Research Project is almost finished.  The actual “project” portion is complete.  I must now review the data, evaluate the outcome and finish writing my Action Research Report.  I began writing the ARR during the last course I completed.

EDLD 5352 - Week 5 - Reflections

Week 5 – 5.1 – Web Conference Reflections

·      Web Conference Reflections –

o  I am afraid I do not have very many positive things to reflect upon regarding our web conferences.  I have attended three conferences.

§  Conference 1 – week 2 – this conference was frustrating for all involved because we had many technological issues.  The first 40 minutes or so of the conference were spent troubleshooting audio problems.  The remaining time was spent in a Q & A format, but because audio was poor, I could only hear every fourth or fifth word, so I had to do a lot of inferencing to figure out what the instructors were saying.  I noticed this web conference was never posted for students unable to attend the live conference.

§  Conference 2 – Week 3 – this conference was also extremely frustrating, but for different reasons.  The professor started to review the week 3 assignment which many students had questions about.  He started to review the assignment, but only got as far as the learning outcomes.  Once he came to the actual instructions for the assignment, he stopped reviewing and began asking random discussion questions.  It gave the impression that he was unfamiliar with the week 3 assignment. He refused to answer questions about the assignment and, instead, told us to contact him after the web conference for clarifications on the assignment.  I saw no point to this web conference.  This web conference was also never posted for students who were unable to attend the live conference.

§  Conference 3 – Week 4 – this conference was much better.  There were minimal technological difficulties and the professor (a different professor) was open, friendly, and willing to answer any questions posed by students.  This conference was posted for students unable to attend.