Final Reflection

The Tech Nerd Camp was a great experience for me. I love technology, and am pretty comfortable with it in general. I had a classroom set of Chromebooks last year in my class, and love Google. That doesn't mean I know everything, which sometimes I feel that is how I come across when it comes to technology. This class gave me an opportunity to play with new apps and extensions that I haven't actually used before. Screen casting is a great example. I have always wanted to try it, but never got a round to it. This class helped me feel more comfortable with the things I don't know, and feel like it won't overwhelm me to actually use it in my classroom this upcoming school year. I want to make some screen casts that help my third graders with logging into different things on the Chromebooks and navigating the Chromebook as well. I want to have a place where they can be stored on my website so students can access them when they need to.

 The interactive blog was two-fold for me. I really like the usability of it for creating my own blog, but navigating to other tech nerd campers' blogs was a bit difficult. I did love that when I was able to add and follow other campers, I was able to learn from what they posted with each activity. I did feel that in the beginning, it was hard to comment on other people's work, since everyone was working at different speeds. I think that is what got me behind. I was waiting to be able to actually post on other blogs, and I shouldn't have let myself "wait" for them.