March 2nd Class reflection from Carrie Ann

Posted by on March 18, 2010 
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First, let me say that I hope everyone had a wonderful spring break and you all are enjoying the beautiful spring weather that we are having.  I look forward to seeing you all next week during class.  The March 2nd class session for me was very rewarding on so many educational levels.  This was the first time I have seen the Elluminate Live! Software used and being able to talk to another professor seeing/discussing the same images on the computer screen that we were was amazing.  The real time interaction of the program was wonderful and I hope to use this software more in the future.  Dr. Elizabeth Barkley was very open with her portfolio putting both the “good” and the “bad” out there for all to see, and that is a bold move as an educator.  I really enjoyed seeing another music educator’s work with the same subject matter that I teach, and I came out of class with some new ideas for my teaching. While looking at Dr. Barkley’s portfolio one quote hit a mark with me so much that I had to write it down.  Eric Hoffer states: “In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”  We in the SoTL must move forward and keep learning new things every day, if we don’t we will be stagnant and the world will just keep moving forward.

We also had the opportunity this class to hear our colleagues’ thoughts and responses to the “How People Learn” text.  It was nice to hear about all the chapters that came before the two chapters that I had assigned to me, and now I see a logical and linear train of thought of how the whole text progressed.  I hope in the future to sit down and read the whole text, and make new connections with the materials presented within.

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