Final reflection

When I knew that I'm selected for course 13, honestly I wasn't very happy. I didn't have a clue what will be on our classes and what are we going to learn, only I hoped that it won't be very hard and difficult, because I'm using my computer mostly for internet. I was optimist and I tought that this number 13 won't be bad luck for me. Later it turn out like that.

The first class here on ISUM was fabulous. We had a break to meet each other through little task. From that moment I knew that nothing will be tough for me. After that for he first time we went in the computer lab were we learn how to create a blog. That was my initial meeting with blog and the web page, blogger. To create a blog is incredibly simple process. We only had to fulfill 3 easy steps, and we could start to publish a post. This word, publish was include in our second class. We learned about literacy which means "read and write skills". Every person has different literacy. For ex: I have a literacy in volleyball, but I don't have it in baseball. After explaining this word, we talked about DEAPR. Single letter has a meaning. D means design, E- encode, A - assemble, P - publish and the last R - revise. This steps are important when we want to write something, to make a project or even if we want to pack our luggage. Unconciously we use this process. The next classes were combined with DEAPR. We were making a brochure about our birth place and creating a flyer about our favorite book. So first we had to think about the desing then to encode information, to bring them together, and to revise and publish it. Interesting and very useful thing that I've met was authentic problem. With giving an authentic problem, students can be motivated to learn more, to do some researches if are necessary and to become better on a specific field. Some of the classes was not very attractive for me. This is like this because I don't want to paint, but the class was about painting our shoes. It's really complicated for me to paint and draw. But my shoes were ok :-) Web quest was the next thing that we learned about. A useful method to stimulate the students to do some researches on a specific field. It contain an authentic problem which has to be solved on the appropriate way. Oh I'll almost forgot to mention that we make a PowerPoint presentations. One was for ourselves, and it was multimedia, but the other was hypermedia where the topic was "Life in ISUM". This presentations includes sound, text, animations, graphics and video which are combined to communicate information.
All this that was learned on our course "Teaching with technology" is helpful for us - future teachers because we've get know with new methods of learning which I hope will be used in future. Everybody knows that the technology is developing more and more, and everything will be conected with computers. From all this I can say that I don't regret because I was part of this program and this course. Besides learning, here we had a great time, everyone is friendly, positive and open-mind person. There's only one thing that I regret, the ending of this summer university. I wish there were more week, perhaps one more. But that's it. We can't change that. I'll save in my mind all good things from here (there were no bad things), and all the teaching and learning. The professors are great persons and they know how to give us the essential information. At the end I'll say: Thank you for everything. I promise I'll be good teacher and I'll try to transmit my knowledge on the suitable way like you did it.