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Midterm Reflection Paper

Mid-Term Reflection Paper
1. Have your expectations for what you hoped to learn in the course changed since you wrote your last Reflection Paper?
2. How much do you feel you have learned/grown in this course to date?
3. Do you feel you have gained a better understanding of how to tackle challenges?
4. What are you doing differently with technology than before you took the course?
My expectation for this class has changed since my first initial reflection paper. I have thought that we were only going to learn how teachers use basic technology to make presentation in their classroom, learn how to type, or just to be familiar with computer. I discovered that we have learned so much by now.
I have learned so many different ways to use search engine on the Internet. I have been introduced to weblog. Weblog is website where my classmates and I can post our thoughts and comments about things that other people wrote. We can also write something on the weblog and let other people comment on our writing also. I did not know anything about or heard of weblog before taken this class. Now I find that writing on the web is so much easier and fun. I think weblog is a good way to communicate in addition to email. I have always been a shy person. I do not like to talk or share my opinion with other through speech. So with the weblog I learned in this class, it enables me to communicate with my classmate without talking to them face to face. I think that would help me a lot in class because without weblog I would be so lonely and caught up with all the work by myself. I would never have anyone to talk to or to ask questions about the lesson. We have also learned how to create a website. This is the most exciting part to me. I have never done this before so I think it is very important and helpful that I have learned how to do build a webpage.
I think I would be much better off now when facing challenge. I have learned how to tackle these challenges in the class also. There are so many techniques in the book that help me solve problem when the situation has become difficult and frustrate. I have become more calm when facing a difficult problem now. The class also helps me a lot in this aspect because I can write my questions and then post it on the weblog. I’m sure that someone will answer my post. That way I get a second opinion about thing which is very helpful.
I have always used the computer to communicate by email only. But now I can use weblog to ask other people questions when I am stuck. I can use the computer and the Internet to create a website. I could use many different techniques to do research for my homework and project now. This class has brought me a lot of benefit. I can use these problems techniques that I learned in this class and apply it on my other classes also.
I have learned that this class involves a lot of work so I need to be more focus. I also want to take this class more seriously. It is so exciting yet the class is very intense because we only meet once a week. Every time we meet, we have so much to do. What I have hoped to learn in this class previously has changed a lot. I hope there are still more and more new methods and techniques that I can learn in addition to all that I have learn already. This class has really opened my eye to technology.

posted by Nina Nguyen @ 10:11 AM