This final week in the web conference, we were granted a reprieve from our Week 5 course reflection paper. That was a good thing, because, as Dr. Abernathy said, we have so much more to make perfect this week in a short amount of time without that! We were also reminded to put everything in our e-portfolio in order to complete it. In TK20, we were reminded to submit our assignment as an artifact, as well as to make sure each team member submitted the link to the PSA, as well as uploading it to YouTube. Additionally, the discussion boards were omitted from the assignments in order for the teams to have time to perfect their PSAs. This was a good thing, especially since our PSAs are our most significant and detailed work with technology since our Teaching with Technology course in March. This has been quite the challenge, but just like with Teaching with Technology, we all used our various hobbies/expertise to bring the project together.
We chose cyber safety because it is such a significant issue, one that doesn't get nearly enough attention in today's highly technological world. Children and teens need to know how to protect themselves online, and likewise parents need to know how to protect their children while they are teaching them about the internet. When we chose our topic, we also realized we needed to utilize the tools we were comfortable with, as well as step out of our comfort zone, experience and experiment with new things. For instance, we used the drop box tool in our group. Most of us had never heard of it, but it made the job of our video coordinator much easier, and showed us how to collaborate that much more easily when several people are trying to share documents. It's a great tool that I will experiment with and learn to use for future work, both for me and also for teaching others how to share documents without attaching them to an e-mail or becoming a member of a wiki or Google site! I'm really looking forward to seeing our group's finished product. It’s been a thrill working with my team to accomplish this PSA, and this has been a really fun course as well
We chose cyber safety because it is such a significant issue, one that doesn't get nearly enough attention in today's highly technological world. Children and teens need to know how to protect themselves online, and likewise parents need to know how to protect their children while they are teaching them about the internet. When we chose our topic, we also realized we needed to utilize the tools we were comfortable with, as well as step out of our comfort zone, experience and experiment with new things. For instance, we used the drop box tool in our group. Most of us had never heard of it, but it made the job of our video coordinator much easier, and showed us how to collaborate that much more easily when several people are trying to share documents. It's a great tool that I will experiment with and learn to use for future work, both for me and also for teaching others how to share documents without attaching them to an e-mail or becoming a member of a wiki or Google site! I'm really looking forward to seeing our group's finished product. It’s been a thrill working with my team to accomplish this PSA, and this has been a really fun course as well
