Since joining COETAIL I have made a conscious effort to include technology in my classes. I’m partly doing it simply for the sake of using technology, but it has benefited both me and my students: I find them more engaged when working collaboratively, and I have pushed myself and created new assignments because of my use of technology.
Over the course of the year, I used several technologies on which I polled my students:
Long story short, I’ve reached the following conclusions about my use of technology:
- Students enjoy collaborating, and do it more effectively with online tools (kind of an obvious conclusion, I know)
- Moodle is very useful for the students who choose to use it
- Although Facebook and Twitter are popular outside of school, students want to keep a separation between academic and personal life.