Week 2 Reflection

This week we were required to form a group and collaborate with other students in our class. I was very optimistic on how this week would play out, considering I had no experience working in a group through the use of technology. I found this week to be more challenging than the last in the sense that as a whole the entire week brought much more confusion. Although I feel that is may be less confusing if we had more time to put into our projects and figure out how everything should be before we submit it.I feel that everyone has a different idea of the expectations and that is what contributes to most of the confusion. I am sure that if we were taking this call face-to-face, we would all be more confident turning in our final products and receive faster feedback with our questions. I have found that because everyone is completing this course on their own time, it makes it more difficult to complete the group work and communicate efficiently because everyone is online at different time. This makes it hard to get your questions answered quickly in order to continue working on your projects.

All in all, this week has been very stressful and there is still more that has to be completed with only one week left of class. Due to the fact that this is the first time offering this particular course online, there is bound to be flaws. After the course ends, I am sure many improvements will be made and there will be less confusion for other students who chose to take this course online.

Even though I feel I have struggled through this second week on the course, I have still gained many useful skills through exploring and implementing the different ways I can use technology in the classroom. I have learned many new skills that I am sure will come in handing when I am preparing lessons in the future for my own students.

I am looking forward to this last week of class and feel I still have a lot of work to finish to catch up for week 2. I am still very curious to see what each groups completed websites will turn out to be when finished. I am sure when this last week is over, the whole class will be very proud of the work they completed and the job they have done!