Reflection+Page

When I signed up for a class about educational technology, I envisioned learning about new and different ways of incorporating technology in teaching. In the class we looked at blogging, internet conferencing, reviewing how schools used technology, making Wikis, looking up information about urls, using instructional videos on the internet, making custom search engines, and using tiny urls. I was very familiar with all of the above except, making the Wiki and making the custom search engines. The goals in the syllabus were clearly defined, and for someone who might not be as computer savvy would benefit greatly from this class. The uses of most of the skills learned and demonstrated in this class have very little relevance to the profession of athletic training. Because the athletic training profession in itself utilizes very little internet or computer interaction for carrying out tasks, many of these skills would only be useful if teaching in athletic training. Teachers in athletic training however, could use Wikis to post to students, and use the custom search engines to help facilitate the students. Other than that, within my practice, the only time I may use a computer is to write injury notes. Most of the rest of what I do is hands on with patients. Though there was little relevance to what I do professionally, I was still very capable of completing the assignments. I did not find that they were difficult, just time consuming. There was some good information in the articles that I had to read, just not very relevant to me. This course let me know that I had to stay organized, aware of time, and not to procrastinate in my assignments. This course also helped me to know how computer literate I am, and that I am not behind in current methods of communications. It also forced me to do work that I did not necessarily want to do, but had to do.