Saturday, January 22, 2011
Will this help me?
I do think that all of this design and development "stuff" will help me in as an educator and as a teacher leader. There are so many great tools out there, but if you want to personalize it, this is where the design and development stuff will help! I know that there have been many times with my team that we have had ideas to add things to our class blogs, but because we have no idea how to implement, we settled for not having it. I don't think we should have to settle. I know I've spent many hours looking up how to embed a Windows Media Video in my blog, so parents don't have to download a link, but I couldn't figure out the codes. Now, once I learn more, I will be able to help not only my team, but my school with their questions and needs when it comes to design and development. I also think that learning more about design will help me create more effective activities and lessons for my students. It will also allow me to teach my peers how to create more effective, and better designed activities for their students. I think that, although it will be hard work, in the long run this design and development stuff will help me become a better educator and teacher leader. It is giving me more skills to share with my peers and it is opening new doors for better opportunities to improve how I teach.
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It sounds like you are well on your way to becoming a technology leader and facilitator in your school. I agree that design and developmeny is an important element of technology leadership and it will be helpful for us in the future.
ReplyDeleteYou pointed out that good design will help make lessons become more effective. This isn't something I thought about before, but I have to agree with you. We have probably all had those moments in our classroom when poor design kept a lesson from being truly successful with our students.
Ultimately, just like you, I can't wait to see how learning more about design and development will open doors and provide better instruction!
I have to agree with everything you said in your post - haven't we all had that great idea for our classroom, but just lacked some skill to pulling it off. For me, 99% of the time it is a tech skill that prevents its success. I'm struggling with that very issue now. I really want to find a way to embed a map on my wiki site that tracks the locations of tweets sent to a specific hashtag...but how oh how do I do that. When I google it, the lingo makes no sense: twitter pipes?!?! Who knows what that means! I really hope this class helps me learn some strategies for navigating this top secret web language!
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