ETEC 565 is my final course towards my MET degree. \u00a0I think it is a good choice in that it will allow me to both shake the dust off many of the Educational Technology tools I have picked up along my journey in this program and potentially integrate them into a practical learning experience for myself and for my current and future students. \u00a0My destination, at this point, is to a place of further development and elevation of my skill set and comfort level in \u2018designing and developing digital-age learning experiences and assessments \u2018 which, through ETEC 565, will take me to-<\/p>\n
Moodle<\/strong>:\u00a0 Where I will exploit more of the many the tools (Activities <\/a>and Resources<\/a>) in this LMS to further enhance my students\u2019 learning experiences.\u00a0 As it stands, I currently use the basics \u2013 Resources: text pages; Activities: discussion forums & assignments. If time permits, I would like to take a side trip to either Multimedia <\/strong>or Web Publishing<\/strong> where, while it would be great to play with CSS, html, java, C++ or develop a multimedia project, I will likely restrain myself from taking on too much and focus more on gaining insight into how these tools might be used to enhance the teaching\/learning I am involved in.<\/p>\n Ultimately, I am hoping to walk away from ETEC565 being able to \u2018walk the walk\u2019, as opposed to where I am now which is more one who \u2018\u2019talks the talk.\u2019 If nothing else, my journey should make me a more comfortable, confident technology traveler and give me new tools as well new uses for the tools I have in my bag that I will take on my next of, hopefully, many sojourns.<\/p>\n Happy Trails!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ETEC 565 is my final course towards my MET degree. \u00a0I think it is a good choice in that it will allow me to both shake the dust off many of the Educational Technology tools I have picked up along my journey in this program and potentially integrate them into a practical learning experience for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/critoetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/critoetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/critoetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/critoetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/critoetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/critoetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/critoetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/critoetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSocial Software<\/strong>: Where I will expand my knowledge and understanding of this concept as a whole and how some of these tools<\/a> might be used in education. As more of a dabbler then a user, I have a sense of the popularity and power of these tools (WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, delicious, flikr) but am unsure as to how to harness this in an educational setting.
\nCommunity & collaboration<\/strong>: Where I will explore these the many tools available and learn how I might be able to incorporate them into my teaching. I am somewhat fuzzy as to how to distinguish these tools from social software<\/a> at this point, but am hoping it will become clearer <\/a>when I touch down here.<\/p>\n