Reflections+for+Classes

**EDLD 5368- Instructional Design ET8015**
Reflection: In this course we used online learning for students/teachers. It was a great way to learn about the backwards design we must go through in developing lessons and online learning environments for our learners. I enjoyed learning how to set up a Schoology account as well as a online training for our staff with Promethean board training. I think that our teachers really like the idea to be able to go online and do training at their own pace in the comforts of their own homes or at school during conference periods or before/after school time. I intend to add more information to the Schoology site to make sure that the teachers on my campus have a 24/7 resource to be able to look how to implement technology in their classrooms and even go back to it as a guide if they can’t get something figured out. I already have teachers and support faculty asking me to do a Google Doc online learning opportunity for them. After the response from the Promethean training I will definitely be using online learning for my teachers at my campus; however it is harder to implement without students due to the lack of computers at our campus. As with any new technology you learn it is hard to learn all the bells and whistles of a new program in 2 weeks, therefore I will be spending my summer getting all the lessons ready to go by the middle of July so I can start sending out links to the faculty at my campus to be able to look at the information and see if I need to add anything before sending out to our district. I believe once all the faculty/support staff sees how well it works in the classroom and how easy it is to integrate that it will be a huge asset to those that have computers or computer labs daily to use it especially if they are needing to be out during an extended period of time.