Summary of Learning: Instructional Technology Applications

For my summary of learning, I chose to make a Google Slides presentation. This was my fourth Cool Tool, and I wanted another chance to try it out. I love that it saves my presentation automatically as I'm working on it, and I can share it with other people so easily.

I'm really proud of this blog. This was way out of my comfort zone at the start of the class, but I've grown accustomed to posting here. I feel sad that it's come to an end!

What were my biggest takeaways from the class? Rapid fire:

• Self-guided learning (with proper structure and support by the instructor) can be powerfully effective
• The importance of understanding the ins and outs of copyright law and fair use
• Blogging is a great way to share with other educators, your students, and parents!
• Google Slides is an amazing tool.
• Jing - I'm going to use this screen-capture tool from now on. So much better than my previous method.
• There are so many blogs by art teachers I'm going to explore. 
• T-PACK - Will be thinking about this more as I learn about building lessons

How I plan to incorporate educational technologies into my future classrooms?

• Google classroom, Google Slides
• Digital workspaces for digital art (Adobe software and less expensive alternatives)
• Online art databases (Oxford Art Online, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, etc.) 

Thank you, Professor Savery, for sharing your knowledge and wisdom about teaching with us this semester. It was truly a pleasure being in your class. And thank you, also, to my fellow future teachers. I wish you all well on your journey.

Click here to visit my Google Slides Presentation of my summary. If you are one of my classmates, I should have already sent you the invitation to see it.

Source Wood engraving by Rockwell Kent.
Ishmael on his way to New Bedford.

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing." 

--Herman Melville, Moby-Dick