6.2 Reflection
Candidates regularly evaluate and reflect on their professional practice and dispositions to improve and strengthen their ability to effectively model and facilitate technology-enhanced learning experiences. (PSC 6.2/ISTE 6c)
Artifact: Blog
Standard 6.2
The blog artifact was required of ITEC candidates which involving regularly reflecting on learning on a regular basis. Reflective blog postings are a great tool for ITEC candidates to describe learning experiences and measure growth as a technology coach or leader. While the majority of blog posting occurred in the Internet Tools for the Classroom course, reflective posts summarizing semester learning also followed each respective course. Maintaining the blog was a great way to reflect on learning throughout the coursework that further developed my skills reflecting on professional practice.
The blog artifact demonstrates my abilities to regularly evaluate and reflect on professional practices and dispositions. Contained in the blog are a variety of reflective entries that range from analyzing podcasting and screencasting tools to more pedagogically centered postings. Of the more significant components of my blog are the Equitable Access, Internet Safety, and Global Learning and Diversity postings. These three postings, in particular, highlight my growing pedagogy and increasing knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to being a highly effective technology leader. Additionally, one of the great things about the Internet Tools for the Classroom course was learning the distinction between casual blogging and developing a professional blog where fellow educators were the intended audience. Also, I learned that in addition to being a tool for regular reflection on professional practice that blogging at its core is a medium in which the primary function is to connect ideas and people.
Overall, I feel that when my posts are read chronologically that there is much evidence of how much I have grown as a technology leader. In retrospect, I would’ve liked to have blogged with more frequency. However, I did have a few entries like my ISTE and Hour of Code posts that were inspired solely on things that were happening in my professional life rather than my academic life. Perhaps going forward I can create and maintain a new blog about educational technology. I absolutely love reading Richard Byrne and also Larry Ferlazzo’s blogs in my feed reader. That is a goal to aspire to and perhaps following my graduation from the ITEC program I can devote some attention to building a blog to help other educators as they have.
Evidence of the impact my blog has had on my school can already be seen. I was able to share my Internet Safety Post with a colleague who was tasked with creating an Internet Safety for Parents class. She was able to use that post as a starting point for building the parent class. The Internet Safety for Parents class occurred at our Arts, Technology, and Parent Involvement night which is one of Buford Elementary’s largest community events.
The blog artifact was required of ITEC candidates which involving regularly reflecting on learning on a regular basis. Reflective blog postings are a great tool for ITEC candidates to describe learning experiences and measure growth as a technology coach or leader. While the majority of blog posting occurred in the Internet Tools for the Classroom course, reflective posts summarizing semester learning also followed each respective course. Maintaining the blog was a great way to reflect on learning throughout the coursework that further developed my skills reflecting on professional practice.
The blog artifact demonstrates my abilities to regularly evaluate and reflect on professional practices and dispositions. Contained in the blog are a variety of reflective entries that range from analyzing podcasting and screencasting tools to more pedagogically centered postings. Of the more significant components of my blog are the Equitable Access, Internet Safety, and Global Learning and Diversity postings. These three postings, in particular, highlight my growing pedagogy and increasing knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to being a highly effective technology leader. Additionally, one of the great things about the Internet Tools for the Classroom course was learning the distinction between casual blogging and developing a professional blog where fellow educators were the intended audience. Also, I learned that in addition to being a tool for regular reflection on professional practice that blogging at its core is a medium in which the primary function is to connect ideas and people.
Overall, I feel that when my posts are read chronologically that there is much evidence of how much I have grown as a technology leader. In retrospect, I would’ve liked to have blogged with more frequency. However, I did have a few entries like my ISTE and Hour of Code posts that were inspired solely on things that were happening in my professional life rather than my academic life. Perhaps going forward I can create and maintain a new blog about educational technology. I absolutely love reading Richard Byrne and also Larry Ferlazzo’s blogs in my feed reader. That is a goal to aspire to and perhaps following my graduation from the ITEC program I can devote some attention to building a blog to help other educators as they have.
Evidence of the impact my blog has had on my school can already be seen. I was able to share my Internet Safety Post with a colleague who was tasked with creating an Internet Safety for Parents class. She was able to use that post as a starting point for building the parent class. The Internet Safety for Parents class occurred at our Arts, Technology, and Parent Involvement night which is one of Buford Elementary’s largest community events.