Final Submission - Revised Technology Assessment

1. At the beginning of this course, you were asked to assess your present strengths and weaknesses in technology. Has your assessment changed? If so, how?

                       

From taking the course this semester I was able to added to technology strengths. This semester I learned a lot about instructional technologies for my future library.  One of the information technologies that I learned about this semester includes glogster. Glogster is an online application tool that allows the user to create an online poster.  I learned about the online application tool from an on line discussion group. After reading about the online application tool, I immediately decided to implement the online application tool within my ESL classroom. I have used Glogster in various ways in my ESL classroom. In my ESL level one class, I utilized glogster for my students to write about their first day in the USA experiences.  My students were amazed to see that I could incorporate many videos on a single glog to showcase book talks that were created with Photo Story 3.  This semester I learned about wikis. I implemented wikis in my writing curriculum in my ESL class.  I went to various workshops in order to improve ESL writing because one of the major concerns that was peer editing needed to be done more. So I utilized the idea of the wiki so that my students can peer edit their writing samples. Students could peer edit writing samples of students in other periods.  This semester I was able to add more items to my technology strengths column because before I was only able to use power point as a presentation application tool. I also learned about two other online application tools entitled Animoto and Google docs. 

Joseph Rodriguez