Course+Reflections

1. What outcomes had you envisioned for this course? Did you achieve those outcomes? Did the actual course outcomes align with those that you envisioned?  After 30 years in public education I have participated in hundreds maybe even thousands of hours of training of all types. I approach each course I take and each training that I attend with the same expectation – I want to learn one thing in this training that I did not know coming in. I will say that in this course in the final week I learned about one program of which I was not aware. To that extent I will say that I did achieve my expectations for this class.     2. To the extent that you achived the outcomes, are they still relevant to the work that you do in your school? Why or why not?  The work that I do is to assist teachers and administrators integrate technology into the instructional process on my campus. Any way that I can find to ignite the imagination of my teachers and get them to move out of their comfort zone is relevant to the work that I do. Since I did learning something new in this course then I did find this course relevant to the work that I do.    3. What outcomes did you not achieve? What prevented you from achieving them?  Please see numbers 1 & 2 above. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">4. Were you successful in completing the course assignments? If not, what prevented or discouraged you? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">I feel that I was successful in completing the course assignments. I did find some of the assignments to be what I would call busy work, but that may be because those particular assignments are not the way that I work and teach best. They may work well for others and I certainly was capable of doing them. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">5. What did you learn from this course: about yourself, your technology and leadership skills, and your attitudes? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">I did not enroll in this program to learn anything about myself. I am quite confident in my abilities with technology. I choose to lead by example so in that respect I have gained additional examples of good and bad applications of technology that I can incorporate into my skills bank. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">My attitude is one of very guarded optimism for the future of public education in the United States. My attitude regarding the future of technology integration into the educational process is that it is inevitable and we as educators need to get control of the process before it gets control of us.