My individual goals for this course: what I hope to learn during the course, what skills I hope to improve in working with technologies, and which technologies and/or digital tools I plan to start using:

The course description of ETEC 565 reads:

“ETEC 565A is an online seminar that provides several theoretical frameworks to assist educators in evaluating, selecting and using various learning technologies. Students will gain hands-on experience using a range of learning technologies and platforms: web-publication, course management systems, communication tools, community and collaboration tools, multimedia, and social software tools. Students will complete a number of small assignments using different learning technologies as well as a larger project in which they bring several of these technologies together to design materials and activities to support student learning.”

What interests me most about this course is the possibility of improving my use of course management systems. I am currently using Moodle to distribute multimedia content and links for the classes I teach (Science & IT) and am always looking for ways of improving the overall look, design, and management of my sites.

I already use a variety of online collaborative tools (such as Google apps), and as we are a 1-to-1 school, I welcome the addition of even more tools to reach out to my students to enhance collaborative learning.

I am also intrigued by the concept of the ‘flipped classroom’, especially as I have been busy at work creating a lot of digital content that can be used asynchronously for my students: at the moment this mainly involves building “iBooks” using iBooks Author. I’d be very interested in sharing the iBooks that I’ve created and getting feedback from my peers in this course!

I teach an online course at my current school: ICT 8. I am very interested in improving this course, as it is delivered almost exclusively by an LMS (Moodle). Any enhancements to learning I can adopt will be very welcome by me and my future students.

My experiences and your professional context.

I recently created a “VideoScribe” which neatly summarizes my teaching experience, as well as some of the more recent technologies I’ve been using and adopting in my classes.