In The End It Matters...

 


To be honest, at the start of the year, I thought this class would be like last year's technology class, which we took at the same place. It included a curriculum where our aim was to obtain general knowledge only about technology. However, this much educational use of technology presented in this year's Educational Technology Class was a surprise for me. The nice one, while I look back to it just now. I mean, I lost count of the activities we did. Of course, I should not forget to thank our instructor for organizing these, and not leaving us alone in this process. 

When it comes to activities, I liked the ones that led me to use and combine tools for fun and proficiency. Certainly, all of these activities were around creating stories and materials, and all offered several tools but more interfaces became adjustable, which led to creativity, I think, and more fun I got. After considering this, I can say my favorite activity was creating a digital story. In addition, talking with your partner while doing collaborative work enhances your imagination.

However, when it comes to wikis, I think these are old-fashioned, unfunny, and hard to create content in unless you are paid to do, of course.

Creating a blog is efficient for storing personal information and gathering knowledge on several subjects. Although fewer and fewer people are starting to use blogs for social networking. I felt that way at least. Even though, it definitely helped our teacher with the organization     

In the end, the class was very helpful in learning and using educational technologies as the name suggests. 

It always matters to know and prepare for the future. Thank you hocam.







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