Final Reflection of TPTE

At the beginning of this class, I thought I had a solid understanding of technology. I thought I know a lot about the many types of software available and the skills for using it. Over the course of the semester, I learned that there were so many things I did not yet know. I learned about creating digital stories, digital diagrams, flip charts for interactive whiteboards, and the skills to go along with these. One of the major things I learned is that technology can be useful even for working with young children. It can easily be embedded into an early childhood classroom. I can't wait to use some of the knowledge I gathered in this course in my future classroom.

My favorite thing I learned is how to make a flip chart. I can definitely see myself using those in the future to teach my students certain skills. I especially like the one I made about math concepts and
plan on using it in the future.

I think the most important concept this class taught me is how to troubleshoot when something goes wrong because technology is not always compliant. For example, when I was creating my digital story, my pictures were completely blurry when they loaded into iMovie from the cell phone where I captured them. After a great deal of troubleshooting, we finally figured out that when I e-mailed the pictures to my computer, the picture files were compressed. I also learned a lot about being patient with technology. It is those types of understandings that will benefit me in the future. I am thankful for this class because I now know so much more about technology.

 As a final wrap-up for this class, I created a website for my future classroom that contains all of the work or links to the work I made throughout the course. I am proud of the work I have done. I think my website embodies my hard-work well. The image below is a snapshot of a page from my course website about my favorite project, the flip chart.