Through out the class, ECMP 355, I have had experiences with people that have helped me to learn socially. This class is a challenging class because there is a lot of information that I did not have any previous experience with. The challenges in the class were helped by the people that I was in the class with. I did a lot of my online sessions at the university with a few other girls. It was nice to do the class there because if I had a question those girls would help me and I would help them as much as I possible could. When the whole group of us did not understand something we would work through it together. It was a really good learning environment. This is an idea that I would take into my future classroom. I feel that in a classroom it is important for students to problem solve and to come up with a solution without always asking the teacher. This is what we did in a group and it made me realize that putting students in groups is very beneficial because they all have different background knowledge and perspective that can help to solve the problem.
The blogs I feel were another place where social learning took place. I enjoyed looking at other people’s blogs and writing comments. Looking at the other blogs helped me to get ideas of different ways that I could have done the tech tasks. Some people did some really interesting things that I would love to try, that I would have never thought of. I read another girls blog that is in the class and I found it very interesting about her digital identity. She talked about facebook and I thought it was interesting that we both have the same feelings about it. Through social learning and reading peoples blogs I realized that I have thoughts that are the same as some peoples and different from others. Another blog that I looked at made this idea even stronger about having the same ideas or thoughts as other peoples. I was looking at a post about the story in four pictures. Her pictures represented what she is like right now. Each of her pictures could have represented me as well as her. I thought that it is nice to see that there are people that are a lot like you. The pictures that she picked were beautiful and showed what she was trying to tell perfectly. I just thought that it was interesting that one story could be the exact same for two people. On this same post I wrote to her explaining my idea that it is interesting that one story could be the same for two people.
I enjoyed reading other peoples blogs and it helped me to become informed about what is going on around in the city. On one person’s blog I red about ducks being ran over by police officers. I commented on her blog because I thought it was good that she wrote about events that are happening locally. This helped me to think about different topics that I could write about in my own blog. I liked writing comments of this blog and I found it very interesting to read. Another post that I read and left comments on was about one classmate’s project that they are doing for the class. I wrote and told her that I liked what she was doing for her project because she was doing something that taught objectives out of the Saskatchewan curriculum. It was nice to go visit the other blogs and find out what people are doing for their projects. It helped me to get ideas that I could do in the future in my classroom.
There was a really good experience I had through my blog with another member in the class. When I wrote about my final project she wrote back some ideas that may have helped with my project. The idea was to use one of the 50 ways to tell a story and then put it into my voicethread. I never knew that this could be done and I tried it. The one that I tried I could not get it to upload, but I did learn about another really great tool that I will be using this summer for a wedding. Another time that I helped someone in the class was when they were trying to put a cluster map onto their blog. I have done this in the past so I helped her get it on her blog. It was nice because I actually knew how to do something with the computers and could help someone.
When I first started my blog I was not really sure what I should all write about and how personal I should get. Reading other peoples blogs helped me to see what other people commented on and what they write about. When I would read them I would come up with ideas that would help me to write posts and think about ideas deeply. I started to enjoy blogging more and I enjoy when other people comment on my blog. When people comment it is nice to be able to write back to them and answer any questions that they may have had.
