Week 9 - Exploration and Reflection

Congratulations! You’ve made it to week 9, the final week of our online journey. This last week is your chance to be an online explorer. I’ve shared several online tools with you throughout the last eight weeks, but that doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of all of the amazing tools available to you. This week’s task gives you the opportunity to discover and share a few last tools that you can use in your classroom.

Thing 20 – Explore additional web 2.0 tools
To complete Thing 20, you need to select at least 4 tools from the following two resources that you think might be useful to you and check them out. Be sure to select tools that are completely new to you.  After you’ve looked them over, select the one that you like the most and explore it in depth. Write a post on your blog that lists the four sites you reviewed, and write a detailed explanation of how you could use the tool you selected as your favorite in your job. I will link everyone’s reviews to the blog so we can learn from each other. As always, I encourage you to provide feedback to each other by commenting on each other’s posts.  :)

Web 2.0 Literacy Tools (aligned to NETS-S)

Finding the Right Tool by Task

Thing 21 – Write a reflection post about the program and fill out the course survey.
Note: Please wait to complete Thing 21 until you have completed all other course requirements
Your final task for the course is to write a reflection about your experience. I would like you to think about the course content, your successes, any obstacles you faced and overcame, etc. Here are some prompts to help you:

• How did the course assist you in your personal learning goals?
• What were some of your  favorite experiences or discoveries from the course?
• What are your thoughts on the course format?
• What additional elements would you like to see in the course?
• How would you describe your learning experience in one sentence (so I can use your quotes to promote the course in the future)?

After you finish your reflection post, please click here to take the course survey.
I have truly enjoyed guiding you on your online journey through 21 Tools for 21^st Century Educators. I hope you enjoyed the course format and found it flexible for your busy schedule as an educator. My goal for this workshop was to empower teachers to use web 2.0 tools for their own professional development, to keep up with their tech-savvy students, to communicate with others, and to enrich learning in the classroom. I hope you were able to achieve some of these goals and found your experience worthwhile. Thank you for choosing to spend your professional development time with me! You were a fabulous group, and I hope to get to work with you again in the future.