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Reflections

Spreading My Wings In This Class

9/30/2018

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When I came into this class (Applying Edtech Portfolio), I had my portfolio in Google Sites.  I had two opportunities to learn a lot about Google Sites last April at school and then for summer training.  I found out some great ways to use the site while I was building the portfolio in my last class.  I knew that it would not be a good option to build my actual portfolio for the rest of my classes.  Also, it would not be a great way to organize my blog posts.
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​I know that I needed to spread my wings and find website creator that I would feel comfortable, but I also would be able to stretch my mind.  At the beginning, I got frustrated with a resizing issue of a picture.  I did not really touch the site until I found out that my master's small group was going to be looking at it.  Then something happened and I got the push (and energy) to start putting the site together.  When we met on Google Hangout, I felt like I had put my best foot forward.  I have said this before, but having small groups in this class is a great idea.
Even though this blog post was very hard for me to write, I like the idea of the reflection piece for this course.  I went back to Barrett's article that I read the first week of class.  He mentioned "​The Learning Cycle, (which was developed by David Kolb, based Dewey, Piaget, and Lewin,) to be based on the belief that deep learning (learning for real comprehension) comes from a sequence of experience, reflection, abstraction, and active testing."  I think this is what happened these last five weeks.  In some of my reflecting, I was taking my time to think about all the things I was planning to do for my portfolio.  This makes me realize that when I felt like I was procrastinating, I was just reflecting, so I could put my ePortfolio together the way it is today.
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References

Barrett, H. Why Reflect? - Reflection4Learning. (n.d.). Retrieved from
           https://sites.google.com/site/reflection4learning/why-reflect

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Chad Sanchez
11/4/2018 05:07:17 pm

Peer Review #1
Cindy great to see your plan outlined the way it is. I didn't even know what makerspaces was until I came to my new school. I would suggest that you give teachers and admin a chance to see the makerspaces in action with a mock-example. Also maybe present this at a monthly faculty meeting showing examples of what it would look like and if teacher would like to offer their class as a sample group so they can see it in action.

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Cynthia Kohn
11/4/2018 06:06:16 pm

Thanks Chad. These are great things to for me to add.

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