Module+Six+Reflection

Description:
For Module 6 we concentrated on looking more in depth at the plans for developing our e-porfolios and collecting artifacts for it. We met face-to-face one week and learned about TK 20. This will be used to upload our artifacts and major projects from our classes to be reviewed by the education department.

Impact:
I think that sometimes one of the hardest concepts in learning is trying to figure out what is actually expected of you and how to put projects and assignments together without having an example. This is somewhat how I felt at first with not really knowing what was expected in the e-portfolio. I have had almost all of my classes for this degree and have kept hearing about the e-portfolio not ever really seeing how it was going to be put together or how it would be expected to be submitted. After actually seeing examples this week and exploring more in depth about the artifacts and field experience I have felt much more confident in my ability to be able to construct this and submit all of the required elements of it. I have reviewed some of the material from other classes that I have made and feel that I have sufficient artifacts. What I will need to work on now is gathering field experience artifacts. I feel that this may be a bit of a challenge since I do not actually implement a lot of technology tools in the way that I teach students in the hospital setting. I will have to closely look at the ISTE standards and see how what I do use can be implemented into these standards and then incorporate other field experience artifacts.

Intent:
I know that I will create a wiki for my Sunday school class and that this will cover a few of the standards in which I was lacking in in my pre-assessment competency. I am taking a closer look at the competency to figure out what I will need to make sure that I have a complete e-portfolio next spring. I really appreciated Dr. Ward taking the time in class to explain in more detail about the e-portfolio and asking the class what types of things they were having problems with or already knew what they were going to use for their e-portfolios. I also liked looking at examples and being told what was good about them from the instructor point of view. This helped me to have a better understanding of what is wanted and gave me some ideas as to how to organize my e-portfolio. I'm a visual, hands-on type of learner so this helped me tremendously!