End of this semester

This week is my last teaching week in the first semester. Finally, I am finishing my first semester; I did learn a lot about this unit and my future. I will summarize what I have learnt from each assignment in this blog.

From assignment 1a, I learnt how to create my own website and blog. It is new to me, because I did not know that I can have my website by my own one day.

Through doing assignment 1b, I learnt how to use technology to help me organized a party or event. I used tast.com.au to help me design a menu for my 20^th birthday. I did have a very good time on my 20^th birthday. In addition, peer review is a part of this assignment. Through giving others suggestions, I recognized my problems on my event design. The girl who reviewed my work gave me a lot useful suggestions. Before this unit, I had never take part in a peer review, it is a fantastic experience.

Assignment 2 named researcher, it requires us to use 5 resources to explore technologies related to my work at university. I choose “authentic leaning” as my topic, and used books, journal articles, refereed conference paper, websites and YouTube as my resources. I learnt how to use Google Scholar, Endnotes, and learnt the concept of refereed conference paper.

Teamwork is the core task in assignment 3. We are grouped in 4 students, and my team mates are Naomi, Samantha and Jasmine. They are very nice and we cooperated very well to finish our team work about fairytales. Each of us designed a Wiki page about our own topics, and made a power point for presentation together. It was a great experience to work in a nice team. Not only I learnt how to use interactive whiteboard resources, but also I learnt more about how to communicate with others.

Through this semester, I really learnt a lot on being a university student, as well as being a teacher in the future. I realized, to be a good teacher, only patient, knowledge and love is not enough. Having the ability to use technology efficiently is very important in modern society. I am on my way to become a qualified teacher, thanks to Daniel’s help through this unit; thanks to lecturers’ great lectures; thanks to EDN113.