These past few months in the Educational Technology program have seemed to bring the right course at the right time. At the start of May I began Designing Distributed Learning just as I was in the midst of beginning to teach online for the first time and was in fact designing my online learning program. Now two months later, school is over, and I am starting a new course where our focus is on the evaluation of eLearning. Just the process I had put myself though back in May when my online learning program was not working well. As a reflective teacher I naturally was looking at what I was doing, what was working (not much) and what wasn’t working (most of it) and trying to determine a course of action to rectify the issues I was facing in the online learning program I was presenting to my students.
As with every course so far in the Ed Tech Diploma program at CBU, this is my fifth, I look at the syllabus and wonder how this will ever apply to my teaching practice. I teach Elementary Physical Education, in person, not online (well not online most of the time…). Every course begins this way and as I work my way through it, I find that while I am enjoying being a lifelong learner, I am also finding connections to what I do day in and day out. I am getting tech ideas that I can try to integrate into my program. I am sharing experiences and reading about the experiences of others and reflecting on how it can apply to my practice. Every course brings new ideas and theories to my attention, every course returns me to learnings of former courses bringing those experiences back to the forefront of my mind and thoughts. As I ponder where this course will take me in my learning concerning the evaluation of eLearning, I am left with the hope that I will not ever have to put it into action again as an Elementary Physical Educator. That online learning will not occur again in the 2021 or 2022 years (or beyond) and that should I ever be looking at the need to evaluate my eLearning program it is for the benefit of others. Ultimately, as I move through the final years of my teaching practice in the gym, I look more and more to a move to sharing my accumulated knowledge with new educators. To do this as an instructor in an online environment is the most likely manner in which this could occur. To understand this environment is now my goal as an educator, so that as I transition from teaching 9-year old’s in the gym to teaching how to teach 9-year old’s in the gym I am ready and positioned to provide the best program possible to future physical educators.
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