Things # 16 : Photopeach and Evaluation

This is first time for me to use Photopeach. It's a good experience to have this kind of toos in the classroom. We can ask students to create a story for their summer holiday using pictures, we can also create a virtual tour and get the students to watch it.

I've created my first photo story using Photopeach.

I believe there are still many tools that we can explore to enhance our classroom experience, and hope that we as educators can enrich each other and keep our spirit to explore all the new things to be shared with our classroom, peers and everyone who has concern on educating others.

Evaluation
As a summary, I'm really enjoy this blogging experience. It force me to think and reflect what I've learned and what I've gone through from each classes. And, I have a believe that by sharing what I've learned to others will encourage me to learn further, it's like a sow and reap principles, if we share more, then we can get more by having feedback, knowledge sharing from other people, etc.



And here is my answer to the evaluation questions:
1. What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?
Blogging is one of my favorite discoveries, I've never done it before and this is my first time experience to have a blog and maintain it regularly. Exploring through Web 2.0 tools also became one of my favorite discoveries, many terms that I've heard and this time I have to exercise, try and explore them. Go Animate is one of the cool application that become my favorite.

2. How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals?
This program forces me to put a deep thought on what I've learned and what I've known but I didn't put into knowledge, how to integrate those technologies into classroom. This is good, since we need to share what we have in order to keep our motivation to learn something new. The less we share, the more we thought that we have known everything, and that's a bad impact towards lifelong learning goals!

3. Were there any take-a-ways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
Yes, indeed. Before join this class, I've thought that adapting technology into classroom will be an expensive effort and need a lot of resources to make it happen, but it looks like that I got the wrong idea. Technology is there, and many are free and there are a lot of communities that share same passion about educating with technology. So, there won't be any worries for our students that they can learn and experience technology in their classroom without being afraid that they will be lag behind due to economy reason.

4. What could I do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept?
First of all, there are many links that already outdated, so that will be the first priority to upgrade this program. Then, some guided questions on specific things could be useful to give an idea to whoever join this program about what they do and what will be the outcome by doing the things. Posting each portfolio created by every tools shared in this program will be a good experience too, at least we know that everyone doing their part and explore those tools for real. The last thing that I can suggest is there is a room for improvement to have more hands-on, discussion and case study in the classroom on in this blog by giving video to analyze, example of sites, etc.

I'm really hoping that I can continue to post things in this blog and share it to others, which that will need a huge effort from myself.