Learning Unit 3

This learning unit was not my favorite of the three, because I was using tools that I chose not to use in the first two.  However, I was surprised by how much I did end up liking Google Earth.  I am not sure how to use it in my everyday work, but I did share it with my brother and he used it in his World Presentation for his Social Studies class.  I was happy with how the learning unit turned out.  The only thing I would have liked to change was the lack of assignment detail.  I gave them ideas, but I feel that it could have been more in-depth as Global Friends Hour presentations are more than 30 minutes long.  I would have also liked to add a more in-depth example Powerpoint presentation than I did.  But, overall, I was happy with this learning unit as well.

Learning Unit 2

This learning unit was relatively easy for me to make.  I had to learn how to use new tools; tools that I had never used before. What I personally enjoyed about this learning unit was exploring two, new tools, that I have found personally helpful: polleverywhere.com and glogster.com.  Working with international students also means working with many different interests, so finding a tool that allows the international  students to vote on what they would like to do the most is very useful.  I just used polleverywhere.com to choose our April outing, a baseball game.  I also plan a lot of events so finding glogster.com was a godsend.  I look forward to using this tool in the future in creating posters.  I do wish that I had more time to think abou this learning unit to make it more applicable for next semester, but I am still very happy with it. 

Learning Unit 1 Reflection

I personally enjoyed creating this learning unit, because this is a project that I have wanted to do for B-W's International Office for some time.  I think everything went well, except for uploading the example video response.  I tried using my home computer's video-recording program at first.  But, when other students tried to view it, it would not upload.  Therefore, I uploaded the video to youtube.com and only then was it easily accessible.  I have never created videos before this, so I personally have enjoyed exploring video recording tools and now I know how to create videos, which will surely prove to be useful in the future.

My Personal Learning Diagram