Greetings and salutations.
In a short time, a great deal of
information and knowledge has passed to us along with a fair chunk of work to
hammer all that new knowledge into our bag of tricks as teachers. I am looking
forward to using the tools we have reviewed and talked about. I couldn’t wait
with some of them and began using them in my lessons as soon as we went back to
school. I am hoping that my students will find uses for the tools that I introduce
to them that I was unable to imagine myself. I am thinking of adding more to
the schoology fiction unit that I created but am unsure if I would use the service
as supplement, makeup-work, or as the backbone of my classes. I also like the
idea of an open line of communication to parents through the service as well. It
is a great tool and has a lot of potential, but I worry about the degree of accessibility
my students have and do not want to create any requirements that are unfair or
unrealistic. My assignments as they are now are already considered torture and
inhumane according to some of the students’ comments that reach my ears.
To Dr. Rivera, thank you for your patience,
support, and explanations of things that I had become confused on and stuck on.
I often overthink and create unnecessary challenges for myself and sometimes
forget to ask for clarification. The tools and resources that you have provided
for us to review were very useful and quickly made their way to my bookmarks.
My email inboxes are full of subscription and signups to all kinds of services
that I have been exploring because of this class. Thank You, I honestly love
having more tools than I know what to do with as can be seen in my kitchen and
toolboxes.
To my classmates, good work at getting
through another semester together. Our chatgroups have been full of questions
and answers that we have all used to help each other to figure out what where
are doing wrong or unable to do on our own. Looking through your posts and
reviews afforded me many ideas for my own classroom. May we continue to support
and encourage each other as we move forward through this program.
See you all in Spring
Brandon
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