Technology
Website development
To effectively deliver course materials, I employed a website developer, such as Wix and Weekly to create the course and convey the knowledge to the students. Students can follow the website's instructions to finish their assignments. The website developer can assist me to organize all the class materials by creating a site menu bar to categorize the instructions and embedding the videos on the web pages. The students can upload their assignments through the website. The website developer is a great technological tool for the instructor to deliver information and provide an efficient learning environment. Moreover, I utilize Wix to develop my e-portfolio and do diverse course projects.
ETEC 5460 Project
ETEC 6480 Project
Coding Skills
In the foundation course, I learned the basic coding skills of HTML. HTML is a fundamental technology to build up the structure of the webpage. Learning programming helps me define content as a paragraph, lists, headings, hyperlinks, and images, which inspired me to learn more about different languages. It also stimulates my creativity while typing the coding.
Additionally, in course 6550, I utilize Scratch to create the animated and learn the process to teach the kids how to code. Scratch is a great tool and clearly provides steps to develop the project. It is a block-based programming language, which can also strengthen the foundational knowledge of coding.
HTML
Scratch Project
Graphic Design Tools
Canva and Adobe Spark are graphic design apps to assist designers to make materials visually. It can help the instructor to create diverse class materials by applying the elements and templates. By creating my teaching content, I employ Canva and Adobe spark to improve my original teaching materials. Those are practical platforms that provide me the diverse templates and features to edit my videos and class materials. Designing the class materials helps me to think critically about how to make clear prompts to guide the student to think and approach student-centered learning. Consequently, effective teaching content and tech tools can scaffold learners’ collaboration, engagement, and communication.
Reflection
The learning processes along with systemic solve my problems while employing technology strategies. I realized that technology is not solely a tool to assist my learning process in the program. It is a bridge to help me to connect technology knowledge to learning theories toward the practices in learning and teaching. The IDT program leads me to incorporate learning theories and technology strategies, which equip me as a better educator and have the capability to select appropriate approaches to improve my teaching and learning performance.