Conclusion Post (310)
Well, I can’t believe this whole project is over finally. I was so daunted by the task, at first, but I found that if I did it at my leisure instead of jamming it into the night before it was due, I could do a lot better. The initial topic I had of technology in the classroom was way too broad for the entire project, so after I did the first few posts I wiped that. Then I began using Word to just store the documents so that way I could transfer the information and not have to worry about losing it on the rss site. The weird part, though, is that looking at it now shows that I posted everything the night before when in reality all I did was cut and paste (with the exception of this post, the bright ideas post, and the comments post). Overall, I learned a lot about tracking. I hadn’t really paid a lot of attention in ED 225 (I think that’s the course on diversity in ed) about tracking and how serious it is. Looking back, in high school I was an elitist. I think I felt that students should be in the low-track because they didn’t work hard and were, as far as my little mind considered it, dumb. I know now that there are so many other factors incorporating with it and that I, too, suffered from tracking, albeit “high-tracking.” I am not going to lie, though, in the future I think Dr. Rozema should not be so lenient on the due dates for things. When I was starting off, I totally slacked and didn’t get things done. Either the due date should just be finalized (like everything is due now) or if the three posts at a time thing is going to be used, those three posts are due that date, period. If you dont’ get them done, no credit for you. It would’ve screwed me, but I would’ve definitely learned my lesson. It feels good to be done with it, though, because I am ready to move on with the blog to a new topic. Maybe I’ll tackle something like utilizing non-narrative texts in the english classroom or something.
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