Week 5 5352 5.1 Reflections Web Conferences

5.1 5352 Reflections on 3 Web Conferences:

                After attending 3 web conferences I was able to gain insight on expectations of the class through my colleagues. I believe the conferences were beneficial to the course on updating me on assignments, questions that I had along with other students, and getting a better understanding of directions that were to be followed during the course. I feel like I was able to help other students with questions they had as well. There were even additional groups set up on social media for support in the classroom.

January 17 2013 web conference:

                This conference mainly consisted of collaboration between students discussing how to change our Google site to our own personalization. Also, everyone started to talk about getting into groups and how to go about doing that. I think the web conference helped tremendously on getting this organized. Without the conference there would have been a lot of confusion, and it would have been difficult to get into groups. There was discussion about the principal survey and where to find it, which helped me out as well.

January 19 2013 web conference:

                Main focus of this conference was about the announcements and concerns of the weekly overview. Discussion took place on what to put into our team Google doc and exactly what we were supposed to put in there. More collaboration took place on problem solving on expectations of this week. Web conferences have allowed me, as a student, to feel more comfortable with the class. By seeing other concerns and some of the same questions, I am able to be more relaxed and focused on the assignment rather than messing up.

Feb 10 2013 web conference:

                Tonight’s web conference was based on the weekly assignments and how to post in TK20. Questions consisted of saving information in TK20 because there were two different weeks that had to be posted in TK20 on the same page. This conference really guided me on questions I had concerning TK20 submission. Once again the web conference displayed many avenues to the course assignments and helped me get through the week. With this evidence I should consider setting up web conferences for my classroom so that students can ask questions to homework, and lessons.

I am thankful for the web conferences, without this tool I believe this course would have ate me up. I definitely see the advantages to having web tools to help you a better teacher, and to help students perform at a higher rate. I can say for myself that without the web conference I would have not been as motivated.