Wow time sure flies and nips you in the butt when you least expect it…. My journey in this class up to this point has been a shaky one. Trying to handle the pressures of my professional, personal and education has been definately a rollercoaster ride. The start of the class was sure way over and beyond my head. I enjoy doing things on the internet that I know how to do but when things started coming at me that I did not know how to do well that was my first downward spiral. I kept thinking in my head “What did I get myself into?”.

I reviewed most of the recordings in class and have come to the realization that I may not be able to learn every media tool that is out there but the ones that I enjoy and find useful are the ones that I will take with me and continue to use. I think I had mentioned this in some previous posts that I have difficulty trying new programs and installing things on my computer. I always seem to do something wrong. During the course of this term I was more at the back corner watching what was going on and trying to soak in everything that was going on. If I said I got everything I would be lying lol, there is so much out there that is still over me head but I am taking some things with me.

Some of these classes were way over my head while others left me feeling like I wanted to learn more and try more.   I reviewed some of the classes and would have liked to hear more of Alan Levine’s digital storytelling and Sylvia Martinez ‘s educational gaming. Those were the ones that I could really relate to.  Although I found the presentation Remixing  Education with Brian Lamb and Scott Leslie over my head,  the challenge to use new media tools is what really started to inspire me. I created my own search engine and found it to be quite interesting and exciting as I actually did not mess this one up. It was easy and straighforward to use. I also used clipmarks and set up an account there. Again this site was very user friendly and had an easy time using. I very much enjoyed the presentation by Stephen Downes Speaking in Lolcats. His presentation using a webcam was in my opinion more appealing as I was able to see the face to the presenter. I liked when he said “Learning the language of Lolcats is learning how to think”. This statement really made me THINK! I appreciate things that do that.

I can actually say that I am getting the hang of using things. I can say that things that I have never used before are some of the things that I can take away and use in the future. I never really thought of using Youtube half as much as I do now. I also found Teachers Tube to be a really useful tool. I actually opened a Twitter account and find that to be something that I will use in the future. I have used wordclouds and have shown this to some of the educators in their school which they are beginning to use now. This finally brings me to my final project. I developed a wiki social media for educators to give teachers and educators a wiki where they would be able to find different media tools in one place. Some of these tools we used in class and others were recommended from colleagues. I hope that you find use for it. If you feel that you would like to add something to this wiki. Feel free to do so. I feel that I have taken more knowledge in technology and will try to pass what I have learned onto others.