It’s time to say goodbye :(

I can’t believe that this class is coming to an end. There were a lot of great discussions, articles, group projects, and blogging that we did in this class and I have learned so much in this class. I really enjoyed blogging each week. This is the type of work I like to do when it comes to class work. Answering questions and making evaluations and then posting it on the website for feedback not only by you, but also from other students in the class was very helpful. Literacy is always changing and evolving, and this class has supported my theory from the beginning. I really have to admit that I never really thought of gaming as a helpful tool to use in a classroom. I always thought of it as a waste of time and couldn’t be educational. After this class my thoughts on gaming is completely different. I can see it being useful in class for example the game, Zork. Zork may not have the graphic images that most games have today, but it gives the students the chance to think out of a box, to use their imagination, and also encourages people to work together to complete the game. Thank you Kim Jaxon for encouraging social media use in your class. That made this class even more interesting and seeing how passionate you are about what you were teaching just made me enjoy this class and strive to become as a great as a professor as you are.

During my internship I was really pleased to watch Ms. Morine on her first year as an English teacher for sophomores and juniors. I was able to grab such great ideas I would like to incorporate in my own class like the activity she called, Socratic Fishbowl. This worked so well with her students and it kept them engaged in the activity the whole time not allowing them to get disrupted with outside conversations. She always gave me copies of the students articles and allowed me to view homework turned in so I could see thought processes of each student. She even trusted me enough to grade her student’s responses on homework and encouraged me to write comments on their papers with my own thoughts and questions. I was so happy to have this experience!