Reflections

If you have read, or visited my Blog prior to this post, you already know it was originally created as an assignment for an online class I was taking. Even though I have successfully completed the course, I have decided to keep the Blog up and running. I think it will be very beneficial to me as I continue to complete my Master courses to have a place to reflect on what I am learning. On to the next course!


Currently I am taking a course titled "TEC539 Digital Media in Education". This course focuses on digital stories, learning about,  exploring, planning, creating them, and more! It is an exciting class because I am pretty much in an uncharted area for me. I fact, I did not even know what a digital story was until the first week. For those of you who may not have an idea either, they are stories told and shared with digital tools (i.e., a computer, etc.).


So, one of my first projects was to create a video tutorial of myself teaching my students how to complete a task. Did I enjoy it? Not much, because not only can I not stand to hear myself, but I had technical difficulty after technical difficulty. Yet, I did finish and it wasn't perfect (I tend to be a perfectionist) but it will do. Thank heavens I didn't have to actually record myself, just my voice, because if there's one thing I like even less than listening to my own recorded voice it's seeing myself on video!!


I'm very relieved the next project involves taking pictures, and not pictures of me! WHEW...