Reflect

My game plan that was developed from Cennamo, Ross and Ertmer (2009) has helped me learn a great deal about technologies that I will use in my classroom. Besides giving me the structure to learn wikis and podcasts Cennamo, Ross and Ertmer (2009) have shown me a positive method to learning just about anything. By establishing goals, taking action to reach set goals, monitoring progress and evaluating allows anyone using this process to see how they learn. Game plan is certainly something I intend to use in my classroom to help student to learn content and technology. I plan on using game plan whenever I take on a new technology I want to learn. My Game plan for this class was to learn wikis and podcasting which I feel I have done. Following the steps in Game plan has given me the structure and steps I needed to take to learn how to use these technologies. Having learned these technologies my classroom can begin to change into the 21st century classroom I feel my students need.

I have learned a great deal more than I had expected by completing my game plan. With podcasting there is much more to it than just having an IPod. I learned video and audio editing which I doubt I ever would have learned without this class and game plan. I had to learn a great deal about websites and online storage needed for podcasting which can be used for more than just podcasts. I have also become more familiar with the languages used by those who are experiences created wikis and podcasts which is a huge help when explain problems to them. Without game plan I may never have learned any of this.

The adjustments that I will make to my class after taking this course are exciting to me. I am planning on having a much more student centered classroom than I have had in the past. I want to create the creative classroom so often talked about in the Laureate (2009) videos and Cennamo, Ross and Ertmer (2009). I feel that by using the technologies I have learned following my game plan I will be able to create a better classroom for my students. The sharing of student ideas and creativity will change dramatically by having students using wikis, podcasts and digital storytelling. All of which I have never used in my classroom before. With what I have learned from this class I feel confident introducing and even centering my classroom around these technologies for the coming school year and by knowing game plan I feel confident I will be able to learn new technologies to continue improving my classroom.
Kevin Kleespies

Cennamo, K., Ross, J. & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology Integration for Meaningful Classroom Use: A Standards-Based Approach. (Laureate Education, Inc., Custom ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning

Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2009). Integrating Technology Across the Content Areas. Baltimore: Author