Reflection

The GAME plan I followed throught the course was to improve my knowloedge of new technologies through professional development opportunites and to begin to teach other teachers at my school how to use this technology and in implement it in their classrooms. I have found some professional development opportunities but not as many as I had wanted to. For this part I will keep working to find more whenever I can. I have been implementing technologies that I am already familiar with in my classroom that I have learned from this class. The part of the GAME plan where I help teachers implement new technologies in their classrooms is going well. I had the opportunity in early October to conduct a workshop during a teacher planning day where I showed teachers how to use wikis in their classroo. I was very pleased with the reaction I recieved.

The new learning I that resulted in following my GAME plan was that I learned some new technologies that I can use in my classroom with my students and myself. This will greatly affect my lessons in the future and should engage my students and make them active learners. Also, I learned that most teachers do not use these new technologies in their classrooms because they are unfimilar with the technology. Once teachers know how to use the new technology they have no issues with implenenting them in the classroom. I also learned that most teachers do want to learn about these new technologies. It seemed that when they learned them in a familiar environment they were more at ease.

Now that I have finished this course I will continue to integrate new technologies in my classroom. This course has given me so many new ideas to use that I now have more lessons that are engaging and benificial to my students. Making my technology unit plan really helped me see how much better my classroom can be and that there is an engaging lesson using technology for every subject and unit.

Jonathan Garrett