Final+Examination+-+5363

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 =**//For your final examination, you will write five short responses about the course activities, considering the outcomes and the extent to which the outcomes will influence your role as an educational technology leader in your school and district//**.  = =COURSE REFLECTION PROMPTS =

Final Examination EDLD5363 Outcomes When I read the course title, I thought finally, another course with concepts I can immediately begin to apply. Since I began my coursework at Lamar I have grabbed hold of the vision of a truly technology integrated course. My observance of the current use of technology in the classrooms leaves a lot of room for improvement from last year. My expectations for this course were high and I wanted to learn enough about this topic, that I could confidently teach this to students, and teachers. I have wanted to increase, my use of technology in the classroom to create a model for the technology department, and I believe multimedia is a way to capture Digital Native’s attention and interest. I can honestly say this course taught me the principles of multimedia, and provided me with resources and ideas that I can use in the class room in the fall. Achieved Outcomes The most valuable thing one can do is to acquire knowledge and actually use it. I acquired far more usable knowledge than I expected. I had never heard of digital storytelling and had not used video conferencing before I began this journey. The concept of digital storytelling is an excellent way to integrate this My Space generation with the skills of imagination, creativity, artistry and higher level thinking and writing skills. The injection of partners and group work was a slight curveball for me; however, it gave me a great experience with working with Wiki and electronic communication. It helped me also to appreciate how educators can work together on projects across the boundaries of location and time. The video conferencing that we did a class was not only fun, but gave me lots of ideas about the way we communicate in our department, both locally and across the district. Unachieved Outcomes I participated in several different types of groups during my undergraduate career, and I continue to work in groups in the field of education, however totally technological groups were a huge challenge for me. I have high expectations for myself, and the type of work I submit; however, I don’t feel satisfied with how well we communicated as a group. I really wanted to contribute more. The final project was definitely collaborative, and the outcome exceeded my expectations. I think it was my Digital Immigrate showing; I really had trouble communicating electronically. The immigrant in me wanted to call up everyone and talk, but I stuck with the plan and learned at least to keep afloat. I did not meet my personal expectations, and that failure taught me valuable lessons on empathy for the non-techies and structures to put in place to ensure everyone is fully integrated and comfortable. Course Assignments I believe our group embodied many of the elements discussed in the Pixar video, from the Week 5 Readings. I saw instances of each member making sure our partners looked good. Ideas were received openly without criticism, and there was genuine collaboration. I could not be more pleased with how the public service announcement turned out. Although I did not meet my personal expectations, which I hardly ever do the first time I do something. I learned so much from the experience, whick makes it all worthwhile. I remember viewing the final result and thinking wow, we did a great job. The completed video was in my opinion on the same level as those seen on network broadcast. I could see elements of each group member and it turned out great. I cannot say enough good things about it.

 <span style="font-style: normal; font-family: Arial; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lessons Learned <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I am a perfectionist and unfortunately a procrastinator as well; the combination is usually not a good one. One of the lessons I learned from our group project, is it is important to keep on a time frame for the benefit of the group, not everyone like crunch time work, and you have to be considerate of others learning, and doing styles. I am pleased with the quality of video and the ideas and video techniques I contributed. Due to the number of people, not everyone could edit the video, which would have been horrible. I would however have preferred a group of two, that way I could have had more experience with the audacity software. Usually in groups, I naturally become the leader, however I think my problems with communicating electronically, hindered the level of participation I was able to have. I believe as a group that we accommodated everyone’s difference very well.