My favorite discoveries out of the 23 things were the avatar, the graphics, and learing to embed the videos. These will be the most helpful of the tools that I learned. The news tools and feeds were interesting, but I will not likely utilize them. There are many tools that I will have to revisit and go into more deeply, but I was surprised to find that I will actually use many of these tools. Unfortunately the most well intentioned professional development doesn't usually lead to tools that we actually put into our classrooms. Especially a technology driven classroom - what a great training for my subject!
I really liked completing this professional development. It was informational (with good information) and completing it at home and at my own pace was nice. I don't have any complaints!
So far those have been my favorites and my thoughts about the feeds as well. When I was subscribing i was thinking, "This is going to be another site like facebook that I remember to check every other month."
ReplyDeleteThank you! I'm so happy when participants come away with tools to use. I am already planning changes to make it more relevant for the classroom teacher. It has been a struggle to decide what to keep and what to delete when converting it from a librarian driven staff development to one for classroom teachers.
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