Final Thoughts
I have enjoyed working on our almost weekly blog
assignments. Now that I see how easy it
can be and rewarding it is to accumulate blogs, I want to try something similar
with my older students at school. I love
how Dr. Green set up the blog list and I can always go back to it to review my
peers’ blogs. I think my students would
love this as well. Perhaps, I could
begin with blogging about books that we read aloud in library, books the
students check out (like blurbs to inform others about the books they’ve been
reading), and expand from there.
I’ve always wondered about digital bookmarking. I know it would be beneficial to use with my
students. Often, I give them my library
website and I’ve posted links to it for them to review. Now, that I understand more about digital
curation, I want to create resources for my students, but especially for my
teachers. I want to sit down, review
standards, and find great resources for my teachers to use. Emailing a link to a digital curation of
Social Studies books, articles, videos, etc. would make life so much easier for
many teachers. One day, I hope to be
able to offer things like this to the teachers in my building.
Hosting a website is important and it is also hard
work. I have a website that I dabbled
with prior to this class. My district
left the typical website space with teacher web pages in substitution for a
district app more responsive to mobile devices. When my teacher web page was
deleted, I didn’t know the best way to get information to my students anymore. I created a Weebly and then weekly, I would
post the links I wanted my older students to visit. This has been helpful, but I’ve learned so
many new tricks from this class to make my website even better. I want to post other digital curation projects
to my website (for example-links to 3rd grade Science topics or
Kindergarten ELA concepts) and I want to expand beyond my students to offer
resources to both the teachers in my building and the parents of our school
children.
This class has helped me read wonderfully relevant
articles, listen to timely podcasts, and explore some of the best resources
I’ve seen. I know technology changes
daily and what may seem hip today will be an afterthought next year, so I want
to try my best to remain current with my students and teachers. This course has helped to point me in the
right direction for this goal.
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