Saragib’s Weblog

I was amazed by everyone’s final projects. The range of ideas and the detail involved in each project was incredible. Looking at the work made me feel so enthusiastic about going into education. It would be great to work with anyone in this class as a fellow teacher and, as a parent, I would feel very lucky to have any one of my classmates as my son’s teacher.

I am having trouble attaching my final project to this blog but I will keep working on it. At the beginning of the semester, I would never have dreamed of creating something like this. The final project was a great chance to blend my non-tech ideas with the skills I have gained over the semester. Learning to use Dreamweaver was easier than I anticipated and even enjoyable. I have 20 days left on my free subscription and might mess around with it more if I have the time. I really enjoyed using Photoshop on the website images. I have 25 days left on this trial and will be using it anytime I get the chance! This project pushed me out of my comfort zone and, at times, I thought it wouldn’t get done but I really feel like I learned things that I can use in the future.

This class has definitly expanded my world. I feel like I am still catching up in many ways but I hope to continue experimenting and keep an open mind toward technology. I recently had the chance to re-visit a conversation on blogging that I had with a friend prior to the start of this class. My friend was telling me about the blogs he likes to read and I was telling him how I just didn’t understand the whole blog thing. At this time, I felt that blogs were semi-narcissistic rants on people’s thoughts and feelings that I didn’t want or need to read. Needless to say my thinking has changed. I can now see that there are a range of blogs and bloggers out there. Also, that many blogs are useful and contain information and learning opportunities that are not available from other sources. I was able to tell him the other day that my thinking had changed and that I can more clearly understand his point of view.

Thanks everyone for the great learning experience. I hope you all have wonderful holidays and a Happy New Year!