Question 2

To the extent that you achieved the outcomes, are they still relevant to the work that you do in your school? Why or why not?
(Again, I will answer the relevancy from the standpoint of being at an Elementary campus.) From where I stand, I am not quite sure how relevant all of what we focused on in the course was to what I do daily. At Elementary campuses, we are not focused on Openness or blogging daily (maybe we should be). We are more focused on using technology to bring the world to our students through new and innovative ways. Sharing files and programs and thoughts via the internet is good, very good. And, I am quite certain that Secondar campuses utilize this type of technology daily. However, I was more looking for information on how to train my teachers to use some of the new technologies that I am still not quite that familiar with. I am more interested in learning how to train teachers to use things such as Tumblebooks or United Streaming. Actually, I am not quite certain how Openness is used at all in the public school system. I would think that it would be a bit difficult to do such things, maybe I am wrong (which is completely possible). Elementary campuses, of course, are a different animal all together than Secondary campuses. We run things in a very different fashion. Classes are different, teachers are totally different, and the use of technology in our classrooms looks much different than at Secondary campuses. We need to use Infocus machines, document cameras, projectors, and the like. We need our students to simply learn to type on a keyboard, to work a mouse, and to learn baiscs of Powerpoint and Word. We are not really looking to blog or add Open files to our daily lives, just make what we actually do more successful.