Reflections on Fall 2014

 Reflections:

Week 1
My introduction.

Week 2
 This was a paragraph about the quiz we took. The results reflected my stile of teaching quite accurately.
Week 3
To answer about course design, this week is a reflection on how I analyze my students. A strength I have since it a core aspect of being an educational therapist. By the end of the quarter I know all my students and their personalities. Why they are doing well and why not. This allows me to tweak my curriculum to fit my students needs. 
Week 4
Here I explained  what I write in my syllabus and how it differs from others. I also linked a video. In general my syllabus is a short rule book and grade system information page. The rest of the information I put in my blog. Thanks to this class I blog for my classes.
Week 5
How would you create community in an online class? Here I talked about how it was not created in a class I took online, and how it made me feel. I then went on to explain what I do in my Ed therapy classes for teachers.
How does doing so fit (or not) with your discipline and pedagogy? How it fits ed therapy and why
How central might community be to your class?  Very important since it is the base of expanding our knowledge as educational therapists.
Week 6
Here I wrote about what type of links I use for my students classes and on my blog. 
Week 7
Well I am glad I went back to this week because I had posted the Pre-Algebra open book source and I had been planning on using it for next quarter, As far as my mind map I did not do well and usually have trouble with such a task. My mind map is as scattered as my mind and I am always lucky when I can frame my thoughts and hols on to it long enough to pass it on. 
Week 8
This post has a Prezi on what to look for when teaching students pre-Algebra. For next quarter I want to take this Prezi and transform it to show it to my students directly and see if it can help them understand better what they need to do to solve math problems. 
Week 9
This week was a FAQ page for my students. Having had many questions sent to me by my students made the process easy. I got good comments on my questions by the class.
Week 10
This week I spoke about my extension learning management system and how this can become an obstacle between my students and I. I have found a way to circumvent the system by uploading a word file in announcements that is written like a blog.  
Week 11
This week reminded me of last semesters class and my appreciation of the video on pedagogy and how I had used it in my educational psychology class. 
Week 12
This weeks question was a very open ended question. I ended up deciding to  talk about the classes I teach and referred back to the reading.
Week 13
Here I mentioned my plan would be to talk about my hybrid class for the final project. After thinking about it, I decided not to do this since it does not fit the weekly assignments.  I really like my video I found and posted in this weeks post. Finally my twitter comment brought me a lot of attention.
Week 14
Here I republished my and Claudia Magalhaes's video from our PLN post in the spring. I felt that this was worth it. It may look like a short cut but I learned again from the video and it reminded me that I intended on having my students do this for themselves.

Week 14

For this week I am posting a PLN Video I made last Quarter with my friend Claudia Magalhaes for our PLN week 22. I liked what we said and found that I wanted to republish for this class because I still agree with what I said and relearned from it.