Colon- Metacognitive Journal Post

Thank you everyone for contributing and engaging with me throughout this semester. It has been a pleasure to get to know some of you while we learned together. During my time in this course, I feel as though I've been able to connect with my classmates well, giving positive yet constructive feedback. A recent example is in the recent presentations where I gave encouragement and some personal connection while building upon the ideas presented in the presentations. However, I left much room for improvement this semester as I haven't been able to complete some of the blog posts. There's been a juggle all semester long between my first year of teaching where I have to prepare for five different courses each day, a second job on YouTube to sustain my income, preparing for my wedding, and two SUNY Empire classes. I wish I had more time to put into this class but I know I gave everything I had left. There were some key takeaways from this course for me. It's readily apparent that education is much different than when I was in school (which wasn't very long ago). New technologies and new medias have opened new possibilities for what can be accomplished in the classroom. I can use the techniques and tools in this class to create new and exciting ways for my students to learn. The world will continue to change so as a teacher, I need to change with it.