Personal Reflection for week 9

It was really fun to use Voice Thread! I really enjoyed playing with it. I made a powerpoint about how to cook tuna tofu nuggets for my simple activity. It was really easy to use and user friendly. Even though my activity was simple recipe, I feel like I learned something while I was uploading it. Now I can use this new tool and take advantage of Voice Thread for my future class.
I know there are numerous new tools due to the development of technology, and teachers can take advantage of these technologies in their classroom. It happens in classroom nowadays. I think this happening really helps students to understand better as well as teachers to teach effectively. Through this assignment, I learned how to use Voice Thread, and I hope more and more school friendly tools will be invented and developed.

Personal Reflection for week 8

First of all, I have learned that many people like me, who are trying to learn and receive certificates from American colleges, are spread across the country to expand their knowledge and skills to pursuit their career. Also, they are interested in the online-teaching courses, and they take courses that are similar to this course in order to experience such type of classes that is different from the original on-campus classes. I can search for help from these people, who have already experienced what I have to experience soon, and no matter what country they might be from, I can receive global help from people from different parts of the world. Online courses are a great help to finding such links to other people.

Personal Reflection 6

First of all, I did not know there were so many online course tools other than Blackboard Vista, and it amazed me how many variety of tools there are available. These tools have made learning much easier for many students, and available for some people who might not be able to attend actual classes. Most of the tools had similar features, some more and some less, but overall, the tools seemed to contain most of the features necessary for an online class to be able to deliver information across from the instructor to the students. The tools still require much from the instructors to build their course and upload the materials on to the tools, but this significantly helps the process of students receiving information much more easily.

# portfolio 6 (EDUC 251)

Understanding for the understandings that I have posted, which is the enduring understanding, is easily detected. The main idea for such understanding is linking an image or picture for the idea that one is trying to learn/understand. After we have finished successfully linking an image with the idea, if someone were to mention the idea to us, we would instantly bring up the image in our head to remember the idea. If we realize this process after such process has occurred, then we know that we have accomplished the enduring understanding.

Personal Reflection 5 for week 6

While I was thinking about the trends assignment, I realized that there are more and more online classes in educational field. The advantage of online classes is time flexibility. If the student takes online class, then he/she does not need to follow the fixed schedule, instead he/she can use their time more effectively. The reason why I am taking online classes is also that I can make my schedule more flexible. That's why I choose my learning module topic as taking online class. Teachers who teach online can also manage their time more effectively like students. I think this advantage really attracts more students to take online classes. Through this module, I learned about the trend in education field nowadays.

Personal Reflection 4 for week 5

Through this module, I learned about the new technology names Voice Thread. I have never heard about this program, so when I first saw it, I was very surprised. Actually, I thought that it is hard to communicate with each other in online classes. However, after I saw this program, I learned that it is really possible to communicate with each other even though it is online class. While I was taking lecture through Voice Thread, I felt like I was taking oncampus lecture due to the real voice of techer and power point board. I also read some other classmates' comment on the last slide before I left mine, and it helped to share different opinions. After I was done with my homework for leaving comment, I was proud of myself about learning the new technology.

Module#3 for EDUC 251

I have taken online class for Geography when I was in highschool. That was my first time to take online class, and it was good experience to use new technology for my external study. To take online class, I bought PDP. Since PDP is portable tool, I could take the class wherever I go. When I was in highschool, there was some free study time to help students to study by themselves. I took PDP that contains my online lectures video files whick I downloaded and took lecture with earphones. (I could download online lecture as video files form) Due to PDP I could use my study time effectively and study what I need externally. At first, I though that taking online class would be hard since I was used to taking oncampus classes. However, the results came out differently what I expected. I could ask questions instantly, and the teacher could answer instantly as well so that I did not need to wait. I was surprised with the result because I should wait for the break time if I have any questions to teachers at school. Since I took that Geography online class, I became interested in online classes. I think online classes can give students more opportunities to manage their own time and schedule because, not like the oncampus class, students don't need to put themselves on fixed class time. Online classes are more flexible than offline classes. I also think that online class will improve the relationship between teachers and students. Since the teacher can focus on individual student's work, the relationship between teachers and students could be closer and concentrated. Sometimes I prefer online classes due to these reasons. I am looking forward to taking EDUC 251 online class in this quarter. I hope I learn alot about eLearning.

Personal Reflection 3

From the assignment #4, I learned how to use Google Docs program and copyright. Actually, this week's assignment was a little bit hard for me since I did not have enough information about the copyright law of the United States. Due to this assignment, I learned about the law of copyright in the United States, and I also think again how it is important to everyone. About the small group presentation assignment, I also had hard time to complete this assignment. I am still figuring out how to share the presentation with my group member. I think this Google Docs program is really useful because it is online working so that it does not need to install any program to use it. It also can be shared with other people, so it will help students to share other group's presentation without face-to-face meeting. Google Docs program is really convenient for students and instructors who are taking online classes. Even though I had hard time to do this week's assignment, I am satisfied because I learned alot about the new technology which is Google Docs and the law of copyright in the United States which is important as student and future teacher. I am proud of myself to learn these from this assignment.