Riding a bike was never intuitive to me. I didn't learn to ride a bike without training wheels until years after the kids in my neighborhood. Even my younger brother learned to ride a two wheel before me. I always had problems with my balance and it took it took falling off and getting back on again many, many times to be able to ride on my own. The hard work payed off and now riding my bike is one for my favorite pastimes and ways to commute. When learners work for, earn, their knowledge it is meaningful.
Teaching and now learning in the ILT program are my new bikes. I must persevere in order to succeed even if I fall down many times along the way. I know that the achievements in both are worth the effort because I have learned from my errors.
This basecamp project has definitely been a step in balancing the ILT program, for me. I love incorporating new teaching technologies into my school practice and have created simple classroom websites. This basecamp is different, however, it is more personal and its focus is not so simple as a class website. I don't know who my audience is and I don't know what my content is telling them.
Like riding a bike I need support in order to be successful and have developed my guiding questions to highlight what have been the most difficult aspects:
Thank you for you comments and I can't wait to see everybody else's basecamps!
Teaching and now learning in the ILT program are my new bikes. I must persevere in order to succeed even if I fall down many times along the way. I know that the achievements in both are worth the effort because I have learned from my errors.
This basecamp project has definitely been a step in balancing the ILT program, for me. I love incorporating new teaching technologies into my school practice and have created simple classroom websites. This basecamp is different, however, it is more personal and its focus is not so simple as a class website. I don't know who my audience is and I don't know what my content is telling them.
Like riding a bike I need support in order to be successful and have developed my guiding questions to highlight what have been the most difficult aspects:
- Does my site address my professional, learning, and personal lives in a balanced and engaging way? What could I add to support one or more of those lives?
- Does my combination of backgrounds and pictures clash? Should I choose a more subtle background to make the pictures stand out? Do I need more pictures?
- I have so many pictures of my classes throughout the years that I want to share but I know I have to be careful with privacy issues. Should I just use pictures with blurred, obscured, or cropped out faces or is it better to more forward collecting pictures that student's parents/guardians have agreed to let me share?
Thank you for you comments and I can't wait to see everybody else's basecamps!