This week was exciting to learn new tools however challenging in understanding the detail and the decrease communication back and forth about our experiences. First I have learned that if I get my post up sooner then more communication and responses are possible so this is a goal for me in the following weeks to post by Tuesday night. This is challenging as I am scheduled solid from Sunday morning to Wednesday night however plan to make this a priority. I see it as a priority because without the communication back and forth it really is not as beneficial of a learning tool with my peers and simply becomes redundant.
I was very excited for the opportunity to learn another tool for assessing my students learning. I had no idea that there were various tools in Google Drive other than simple drop box communicating which I just learned last year. I am thankful for the assistance of our UAA School of Nursing technology faculty who can assist to direct me in learning a tool of benefit within our system. Creating the tool was actually fun yet challenging as well making it conduct the format desired for the assessment. I am further going to learn how to embed this tool into our Blackboard site for my future understanding and lesson creation. The biggest challenge I found was gaining understanding of the technical part of the tool. I took a little lesson with my son who does computer programing to gain a better understanding. Although I am no professional I gained a low level of understanding regarding the various part of download, running speed, internet usage and so forth. It was interesting to gain this understanding as it is a vital topic in our home due to restricted usage of internet as it relates to our internet package. Overage of our internet cost an extensive amount of money. This is also an issue with my students who live in Bethel with limited internet and when they use the college internet it is much slower than the community internet. This has helped me to get a little more insight into what tools may difficult for my students to use with these internet restrictions. This week I responded to
Overall it was a good learning week related to new tools.
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