Week Nine- Technology Intergration

Activity 3.3- Using an LMS

In a 250-350 word ePortfolio reflection address the following:
Identify four different features that you would use as a teacher.

• one communication tool
• one assessment tool
• one content organization tool
• one content tool (e.g. file upload, web links, etc)

Explain why you would each of the tools and how it would enhance the course:

• from the perspective of a teacher
• from the perspective of a student

Reflection:

A communication tool I could use on CourseSites as a teacher could be the “discussion” tab. When you click it, as a teacher, you are able to create forums and I think this would be useful in answering questions outside of class time (like we do in EDIT 202). I believe this tool would be useful to me as a student because it would allow me to 1) pose questions outside of class time and 2) discuss projects and or assignments with other students.

An assessment tool I could use on CourseSites as a teacher could be the “assessments” list in the “content” section. The drop down menu gives me the option to create surveys, tests and assignments with extreme ease. This would be good for me as a student because I would know everything was in one place and is easy to find/user friendly. Also, as both a teacher and a student I wouldn’t have to worry about keeping track of paperwork, because it would all be online.

A content organization/content uploading tool I could use on CourseSites as a teacher could be the “content collection” tab. In the description it says “instructors can link items anywhere in the ContentCollection when creating content for this course”. This means that as a teacher I would be able to add links on to the actual page that would link to the materials I had stored in the content collection tab. As a student this is really convenient because sometimes people lose things and having 24 hour access to copies of assignments would be really helpful and would ease any anxiety I might have about losing them.

Overall, this site is really user friendly and I will definitely be using it in my teaching career as often as possible. I believe it will be useful and convenient for keeping things organized, accessible and understandable in any classroom I am assigned to.

Here is the link to the "course" I created (there is no content though): https://www.coursesites.com/s/_EDIT_202

And, here is the link to my "homepage": https://natashamaclellan.coursesites.com/