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 * Final Assessment: Course Reflection Responses

  1.  What outcomes had you envisioned for this course? Did you achieve those outcomes? Did the actual course outcomes align with those that you envisioned?   Nowadays education and technology should be now intergrated throughout the school’s curriculum. I had envisioned this was going to be the approach that the syllabus would cover. The expectations have been met from my point of view. There has been use of media, blogs, uploading, formatting, and online collaboration probably the most challenging part to most of us. A fearless approach towards this challenges was needed in order to complete the assignments. I believe that the assignments were meant to train the teacher/leader to the creation of media products for his own use but at the same time one must reflect on how our students could learn the curriculum by creating these products. Being an avid user of media, I really enjoed the videos provided and the Adobe literature in regards to Media creations. There was enough technical information that could be used as reference. Most of the information should be distributed to teachers in professional development. I liked the simplicity of the articles but at the same time they also wer comprehensive in knowledge.    2.  To the extent that you achieved the outcomes, are they still relevant to the work that you do in your school? Why or why not?   More that 8 years dealing with technology in education has probed to me that technology and education should be moreintegrated that ever. The use of media resources are there for us to use. There is only a need to make this information available to all teachers that are willing to take a risk and use free software out in the web or purchase wisely a school editor.   Three years involved in the schools technology use as given me an insight on how technology can be implemented and by using the information such as editing resources, free software, copyright laws will make me more secure on what I am doing now as a technology integrator.   Now as a technology integrator in my school I will understand the challenges that any school teacher would face by implementing any on the software use such as Audacity, and Windows Movie Make or even photostory. <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;"> 3. <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> What outcomes did you not achieve? What prevented you from achieving them? <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> The Movie making process was fascinating to me as far as the process of pre-production, production, and post-production, since there is a lot involved in it, there was not enough time to really create a product that I could be really proud of. There were time contraints and schedule issues as well as technical issues that could not be resolved such as tweaking the movie to make it perfect. I probably woudl like to experiment more in the collaboration side of this course by giving us more opportunity to explore chats and the benefits of Media storage sites such as  [|**//www.mediafire.com.and//**]  <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> others. In addition a more indepth in format files (audio and video files) would be beneficial since we now face too many compatibility issues of file format across platforms such as PC and MAC. A more extensive assignment in this sense could be addressed from my point of view. <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;"> 4. <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Were you successful in completing the course assignments? If not, what prevented or discouraged you? <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Time management is key to achieve differents goals at the school. This course was no different for me. The way I managed my school work, my life and the assignements proved to me that a clear agenda and schedules are needed to complete successfully the assignment and to reach a higher level of thinking. <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Uploading to some of the free sites such as Teacher tube and video. Google.com was upsetting at one point when I faced technical difficulties when uploading my videos. I finally had to use a different one form the ones appointed. <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> As far as the blog posts I was able to become very familiar with my blogspot. However I was not very satisfied with the URL name for the first Wiki. This wiki started as learning site among teachers in my school and I had given the link to all of them involved. Later it became a space to post assignments such as the video posts. <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msolist: Ignore;"> 5. <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> What did you learn from this course: about yourself, your technology and leadership skills, and your attitudes? <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> There is a big difference being a leader in a school and relating to leaders in a school course. I learned that there are many teachers like me in this course who have the same goals and have the same challenges. Skills and expertise vary from each one of us but that proved to me that we all at different stages and that I could use their expertise to create a learning community. In addition I have been more aware of the different expertise levels of the teachers at my school. This is a great starting point to plan for professional development to our staff and teachers. <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> While being always an outgoing and risk taker I had accomplished my goals. These goals were to be immersed in a fearless learning community willing to learn and accept their weaknesses and learn from each other. To adapt to a distance learning environment and use my skills to troubleshoot different situations. <span style="font-style: normal; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">