Looking Back, Looking Ahead!


This blog is a reflection of my experience this term as a student in Dominican University’s “Integrating Technology into Programming, Services and Instruction” course. For the last eight weeks I have been learning about different technologies and how they can be integrated into our classrooms. Personally, I have learned a lot about new tools I had never heard of, and how some of my classmates use them in their schools.

One of the best tools that I got to master is Screencastify, which allows you to record videos of your actions on screen as well as voice recorder. It is an awesome piece of software that makes it very easy to create demonstration/training videos. In another one of my assignments, I learned about a web tool 2.0 called Verse that is used for the creation of interactive videos by turning static content into dynamic digital experiences.

These are just two of the many tools I was exposed to and that I now have the intention of further exploring in my school and even personal projects. It was a very fun class to be a part of as I thoroughly enjoyed  that technology in schools was the main focus.

Technology is something that we can not stop from evolving and changing the way we do things in our schools. Like every other industry that has had to adapt to the fast changing technological world we live in, educators and schools are not any different. In order to effectively and efficiently educate students, we need to embrace technology and include it in everything we do. Also, our students will depend on technology even more in the future so it is imperative that we get them familiar with it from an early age. The world will continue to change and we all need to continue to adapt.

This represents the last blog we have to write as a requirement for this course and I would like to end it by posting a picture from my first blog that depicts how I feel about the completion of this course, and my commitment to embrace technology in my classroom.

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