Final thoughts

This class was very interesting. I didn't know what to expect but overall I learned more about different type of teaching styles. Face to face classrooms to me will be fading away but not as much. I think the world will have more online/virtual classrooms.  Not being a teacher I didn't understand most of the different style of teaching, but now I do. I enjoyed our mapping assignment we had to do.  As far as our last presentation last week for our lesson plan, I enjoyed doing that. I think there are somethings I can change for next time. I like Kris feedback of using a power point next time to make it easier for. I agree, because Kris does that for some of our assignments when she have templates for us to use. Other that that, I expressed my feelings more in my last weeks blog so I don't have anything else new to say.  Kris is a very helpful instructor and I enjoy having her as a professor.

CEDO 550 Final Post

Predicting what will happen in the future is very hard to do.  We do not know what can happen later today, so how will we know something in two years or more? I do predict that we will have more online learning and of course less teachers. I do not want to say there will  be no more traditional face to face schooling because that takes away a lot of things student's and children can learn.  If that is taken away, students will become more sheltered, have less respect, and become dumbfounded to a lot more real life situations.  


It's not only about the school but how the students learn to handle real life situations and the outside world.  Being able to start school at the age of three is a good experience for me and I hope they continue to have that. I rather have online education start throughout high school and make it a choice. A con about online learning is being able to meet people across the world and not only in your city. You are able to make different friends but only online of course. Pricing maybe a lot for a districts and too much for students or their families. 


Who know's what will happen? I hope they take a lot of things in consideration when deciding about education in ten  years or more.   This class has prepared me to think about the future and what there is to come. We shall see!!!

CEDO 550 Week 4

The article provided to us to read- Web 2.0 May Not Be Formative Assessment  was very nice, short and straight to the point. I do not know how a student can use twitter, cell phones, and Flickr as formative assessment. With that being said I think blogs and wikis are the best for formative assessment. I choose blogs because I was introduced to them in this cohort and I think its the best way to see someone's improvements.  Looking at the flow chart and following those steps will make the student very successful and helping the students learn and understand better. Sharing feedback is important, I see why our teachers make us respond to other blogs, we can get an idea and share what and how we fill about their post. I think sharing feedback is very important during any type of assignment or assessment giving. I will use blogs during a class and I hope others do too.

Here's the chart: Tuttle's Stages of Formative Assessment

Are you good enough for online learning?!?

This week assignment was cool and different. I notice that I am comfortable with only two positions as being an online instructor. Those two positions will be social Director and of course, technical assistant.  After reviewing the first document Wearing four pairs of shoes – The online instructor provided by Kris, I knew exactly which one's will be great for me.  Before doing this assignment, I already knew that I will not fit into any of them and this is not the way I want to teach- online. It seems hard in a way, but more time on your hands. Like the speaker said in class last week, you have more time to do your things, you're not locked in a classroom for eight hours of the day. I need to be more confident in doing this style of teaching and more practice. My chart below describes what I need to improve in each category.

Instructor Have more interaction with students Be able to stay focus with students and during class Learn how to respond faster to students via email. Know more about keeping the classroom at a steady and learning pace	Social Director Check on groups while working with one another. Make good/interesting discussions. Be more vocal **This one is easier for me because I like discussions and its easy for me to come up with synchronous and asynchronous assignments.***
Technical Assistant Should know more about each type of computer. You don't’ know what type of computer a student will use during class. Be able to troubleshoot faster and hopefully not during class. **This is the best one for me. I have a degree in computer science and I can troubleshoot all day long**	Program Manager Being able to organize the lesson plan. Being better at creating rubrics. Set up video conference with students to meet the one time.

Week two of 550.. comparisons

I decided to do all three since I experienced all three of them before in education. There was not much to enter for all three of them together at all. Blended education was great for me my senior year in undergraduate due to me having a baby. You can either go to the classroom one day or stay meet online. It's a very awesome program to experience. Face to face (in class) education, everyone experiences it and you have more to deal with. More friend interaction, more time to procrastinate, and more distractions. Again, I thought back as a student, which I'm currently am and how I felt as a student in each education setting. Hopefully I explained everything well. During our group and individual assignment for the community build, I really enjoyed it. There were different types of icebreakers that I came across and great ideas. I would try some of those, when I do a training at my church next month. Other than that, below you will see my comparison diagram.