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reflective journals is your opportunity to explore your feelings
about what you are doing in this class and other aspects of your
professional life. It allows you to explore your feelings as well
as your ideas. |
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#1: |
Write
an account of a time when you were involved in a teaching experience.
It doesn't have to be in the classroom, it could be while working
with a brother or sister or friend or stranger. After you describe
the experience, explain : |
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1. Describe what you taught, to whom you taught it and what makes you define it as a teaching experience.
2. Analyze how things went. Was it successful? How do you know?
3. What did you get out of the experience? What did the other person(s)
get from the experience? How will this experience affect what and how
you will teach in the future?
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Creative Option:
If you don't want to answer this question in the linear manner of
answering the prompts, you can do something else that answers all of
those questions. You can tell a story, write a song, draw a
picture, create a comic strip, or ??? Just remember that
whatever you do, Dr. Z must be able to extract the answers to the
prompts from your creation. |
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Submission
Rules:
Post this to the Journal #1 discussion group by class time on the due date. |
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| Journal
#2: |
Explain
your educational philosophy. While there are many things to consider
when creating this philosophy, consider the ideas below. (Write
this journal in a paragraph form. Don't list it numerically. |
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What is the process of learning?
2. What roles do the student and teacher play in the educational
process?
3. How is success defined in education?
4. What does teaching mean to you? |
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Submission
Rules:
Post this to the Journal #2 discussion group by class time on the due date. |
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| Journal #3: |
Select one of your artifacts and write a reflection about it that will answer the questions of: |
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1. What? |
Summarize the artifact that documents the experience in order to answer the “What?” question. |
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2. So What? |
Reflect on what you learned and what standards you fulfilled to answer the "So What?" question. |
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3. Now What? |
Address the implications for your future learning that is needed and explain refinements or adaptations you would like to make. |
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Submission Rules:
Post this to the Journal #3 discussion group by class time on the due date. |
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| Journal
#4: |
Status
Check
- Here is your opportunity to take inventory about how you are doing in
this class. It will give you a chance to organize what needs to be
completed and will provide feedback to me about how I can help.
Consider the following questions but feel free to reflect on anything
that you feel is important. (NOTE: If you don't feel comfortable
replying to this prompt in an public discussion group, you may send
your response to me through our CCA email.) |
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1.
How are you feeling about the final project right now? Think about
both the good and the bad.
2. What are the things that are helping you?
3. What are the things that are frustrating you?
4. What do you have to do right now to get your project onto the
"right track"? (Make a list)
5. What can Dr. Z. do to help you?
6. Any other comments? Submission Rules: |
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Creative Option:
If you don't want to answer this question in the linear manner of
answering the prompts, you can do something else that answers all of
those questions. You can tell a story, write a song, draw a picture,
create a comic strip, or ??? Just remember that whatever you do, Dr.
Z must be able to extract the answers to the prompts from your
creation. |
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Submission
Rules:
Post this to the Journal #4 discussion group by class time on the due date. |
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| Journal
#5: |
Reflections
of a Classroom Computer Applications student . . .
Here is your opportunity to reflect on the process you have experienced
in this class. Unlike most of your other classes, this class was
completely based on a project-based learning paradigm. Your instructor
was learning along with you as you learned and developed your
portfolio over the semester. Now it is time for you to think about
what worked and what didn't. Here are some writing prompts to
get you started: (NOTE: If you don't feel
comfortable replying to this prompt in an public discussion group, you
may send your response to me through our CCA email.) |
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1.
Did you find the Classroom Computer Applications class to be a
successful learning experience this semester?
2. Explain the strengths of the class and its format.
3. Explain the places where it could use some improvement (your
grade will not be affected by your response here.)
4. What activity/activities would you suggest being dropped next
time ?
5. What activity/activities or form of support would you suggest
being added next time?
6. Explain your feelings about the experience of teaching part
of the class and being totally responsible for the assignment.
7. Any other comments? |
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Submission
Rules:
Post this to the Journal #5 discussion group by class time on the due date. |
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