Over the last 7 years or so I have worked within the online education sector so I am pretty familiar with the tools displayed on both the Static and Dynamic side of my above concept map. I do not teach directly in the classroom but I would still like to use most of these skills in my day to day even if it's only for the current classes I am taking. My Principles of Distance Education class has given me the tools and knowledge to grow and gravitate toward being more dynamic. This course has given me the creative vision necessary to pursue my own instructional design/educational technology practice. I find that the tools described above would be perfect to implement into this practice.
I posted to the following blogs as well:
http://educationtechie1.blogspot.com/2014/05/i-have-found-after-taking-this-course.html
http://suzannereaidsscholarsblog.blogspot.com/
Cottrell, I think that using the different technologies while we are taking the class is a great way of becoming familiar with them. I often use them before I introduce technology into my class just so I can answer basic questions the students have.
ReplyDeleteCottrell, Thanks for the post. I am beginning to develop a bag of tools for distributed learning, and like you have not had a lot of experience as the instructor. As a student of two online degrees, I can say that dynamic tools have not been prevalent in my education. I continue to seek opportunity to include these tools in my classroom. Continue to share your ideas.
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