I must confess that at the beginning of Semester 3, I was somewhat apprehensive about EDRL6004 because I could not, by any stretch of the imagination, claim to be tech savvy. However, it did not take me very long to realise that the technologies about which we were learning did not require one to be a computer expert and my fears quickly subsided. As the course progressed, I was surprised to find myself actually enjoying the lab sessions. I felt though, that the intensity of the course content demanded more contact time, but we all needed some vacation, so that we had to make the best of the time that we had.
To say that I learned a lot would be an understatement. I feel that a huge vista has opened before me. As an educator, I can never be the same again. With the utmost sincerity, I can say that EDRL6004, out of all the MEd Reading courses covered so far, has had the greatest impact on me. Having learnt about blogs, wikis, concept maps, e-books, digital storytelling and podcasts, I feel more empowered and equipped to make a tremendous and positive difference in the literacy development of our millennial youth, and in the professional growth of my colleagues who desperately need training in literacy instruction.
I am very grateful to our lecturer and tutors for their guidance, patience and dedication. They have helped me much more that they know. I also say thanks to my peers without whose assistance, support and camaraderie, this past semester would have been more of a strain. Good wishes and blessings to all!
Hi Beverly,
ReplyDeleteLike you, I feel empowered to go out there and merge the digital with the traditional literacy that we have grown so accustomed to. I know that it will be a challenge so I'm hoping for the support of my colleagues in this course to work together to make this initiative a success. If it were only the children we had to face with these new social networking tools it would be great but as you would know many attempts to introduce a different view of the curriculum is met with a level of resistance. Let us hold on to the enthusiasm that we feel at this time and not let anything or anyone debar us from the goal of preparing our students for the 21st century.
I agreed that we needed more time to practice . The technology is very interesting to use in our classrooms. I think I remembered we were in the same class with the same tutor but did not do podcast only in theory. That lecture was not done cause they did not have the time to do it.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest there are a lot more that has to be done for us to become techno savvy.
I am not going before my class without having the skills required to troubleshoot cause it could become embarrassing when things fail or are we just to say sorry technology is like that?
i am still not clear on many of the tools but so be it will get there soon.
All the best to everyone who can traoubleshoot and have the techosavvy culture.
I think what I learnt was adequate to complete the assignments.