Course reflection
This is the end of class. Through this course, i learned how to write reflection, and contrast to before; i only use the simple apps like Weibo and Wechat to express my ideas and emotions. But now I can publish the article with formal words. The background can be changed and I can choose what theme I like.
The Classdojo, the Padlet and Wenjuanxing are my favorite tools to use. Classdojo provides a platform where teachers and parents can interact with each other online. The design of the website is so cute that fit the children. Each child has his own head portrait on it and these icons are all lovely. Students can showcase and share their learning by adding photos and videos to their own portfolios. Through the software, parents can know how to guide their children do strengthen what they have learnt in class. Teachers design and develop authentic learning and assessments incorporating contemporary tools and the classdojo make good use of the designing ideas.
Padlet provides people an online bulletin board to create their own stories. In my opinions, it’s just like Chinese Weibo or QQ space. I can put my daily photos and add my emtion labels above the photos. And you can choose the picture you like on the interface and the background has many choices you can select. Each theme of the background is beautiful. The platform make students communicate with others even strangers. They share their happy or sad things happen in their daily life online by padlet. Padlet can be applied in teaching. It is a simple tool, but one that can accentuate the best teaching practices teachers employ on a day-to-day basis. For students, carefully posed questions will allow them to respond in many ways—which only helps classroom discussion.
Wenjuanxing is a professional online survey, evaluation, voting platform, focused on providing users with a powerful, user-friendly online questionnaire, data collection, custom reports, and series service research results. And the traditional method of investigation compared with other research sites or questionnaire survey system, it is fast and easy to use obviously. Due to the advantage of low cost, it has been widely used by a large number of enterprises and individuals.
The audio file, website design and the flipped classroom I may not use in the future. I can use the video with vivid
frame and picture to in place of the boring audio file. The website design is too complex to make it, so it wastes too much time. I also think the flipped classroom is not the best way to teach children because the traditional method is more suitable for young children. Too much modern technology is not good for their growth.
The challenge I met was that this site just allow one person online, if two people on the line at the same time, the site would be lost efficacy. We try many times to edit the site, but the mistake happened frequently, and all the things we have completed missed. So we had restarted to do them again and again.
Three things that helped you understand the course content and learn better during your group work are the PPT, the teacher’s instruction and group members ’cooperation. Three things that I should be avoided or improved for group work is the concentration, the listening efficiency and the writing ability. My advantage is that I could do the task on time by heart and the design of my own blog is cute. I joined in the discussion with my group members actively. But my weak points are that I’m not good at the knowledge of Internet. What’s more, I couldn’t listen to the teacher well so I’m not able to grasp what the teacher said in the class. The English teaching is a bit hard for me to accept it and writing reflection every day is also a problem for me.
I hope that I will make good use of the materials and websites into my work. And I want to be an excellent teacher in the future.