Course Description:
In this course you will explore electronic innovations, and specifically Web-based technologies. What is innovation? Innovation produces new ways of doing things. In this course e-innovations refers to new applications for teaching and learning using electronic venues. For example, in the past people used horses to transfer items or transport themselves from one location to another. In 1885, Karl Benz built the first practical automobile for transportation, a technology that would replace the horse and carriage. Also recall how many of us used pencils and pens to communicate our thoughts to someone both near and far years ago. Today, we have many ways of communicating our thoughts and ideas to others through electronic information communication technologies (e.g., word processing, e-mail, text-messaging, blogging, and maintaining wikis). Wikis, blogs, word processors, text messages, and e-mail are all forms of innovations that help us communicate to colleagues, family, and friends.
These strategies will help you stay as current as possible with ongoing innovation in Internet- and Web-based technologies for e-learning. This course will introduce you to these strategies in greater depth and help you apply them in your own life.
Professional Development - ISTE
Overall Comments & Thoughts:
Overall within this course, I really began to think more about what I need to do more of and how to change what I am doing even more within my classroom. I have realized that there are even more technologies out there and sources to help keep me up on what is on the horizon for all of us in terms of technological advances.