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I am hoping this course will help me to improve my use of the technologies I am expected to use as well as the technologies I am eager to share with my students. I clicked on the link to this padlet and saw a bunch of other answers and wondered, "What am I supposed to do here?" I saw several anonymous entries, and  one person had commented that signing in was needed. So, I created a free account, saw a page I didn't understand, went back to the link, and clicked again. Here I am now, with my name at the top of the box - a small success for a new learner, that makes me appreciate my own students as they try to follow the steps to complete whatever assignments I give them using a new technology.The more comfortable I can get in using tech stuff, the better able I will be to help my students.
One of the principles behind my teaching is that I don't teach music; instead, I teach children to make music and enjoy music. Technology is a tool -- a powerful and fascinating tool, but it is only as good as its power to reach between a child and me. I hope to learn better ways to use the technology to reach children and to see where it may be my approach or some other factor rather than the technology that is the problem.

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1. How do you predict this course might be valuable to you?

This course will be valuable in many ways. As a technology teacher, it is my job to continually learn about new platforms and programs to help students engage with their curriculum. I am looking forward to learning from other teachers to learn how to best support their remote instruction as many of the technology tools that have become popular over the last year, I am familiar with. I am also looking to gain a broader repertoire of tools to utilize with my students in order to engage them better when face to face instruction is not an option.

2. What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

My intentions and goals for this course are to begin reflecting on my remote teaching strategies. I want to determine what did not work out the way I had intended, and find ways to broaden my expertise in different programs for remote learning. I also want to ensure that my lessons have a SEL piece because my students really benefitted from having time at the beginning of each class to socialize and build relationships with each other.

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How do you predict this course might be valuable to you?

​This course will be valuable to me because teaching is changing. Last year was a perfect example of how teaching is constantly changing, sometimes slowly and other times abruptly. New and exciting things are always around the corner in education. ​Remote learning is not 'going away'. I want to provide my students with the tools they will need to be successful. I think this course will help me do that.

What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

​My intentions/goals for my learning in this course are to reflect upon my past experiences with remote learning, connect with other educators who have used remote learning and learn new strategies that I can put in place for my own remote learning environment.

I think it is important to reflect upon the past. This helps you make decisions for the future. I hope this course will give me time to reflect and get feedback about my remote learning experience.

Connecting with other educators is an important step in improving one's practice. I hope this course will provide me with the opportunity to meet new educators and learn from their feedback and experiences.

​I am hoping to learn about new strategies for online learning K-12, with a focus on first grade. I enjoy learning new things and then putting them into action. ​

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How do you predict this course might be valuable to you?
This course will help me to stay engaged in the teaching profession and continue my professional learning in a new direction. I do not anticipate teaching again in a brick and mortar environment and remote teaching offers me a way to stay in the profession whether in a paid or volunteer capacity.

What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?
I intend to engage in the course with purpose and focus. I've had difficulty maintaining focus and interest in previous online learning courses and I think that was partly my attitude and unfamiliarity/lack of skill with the process. I hope that learning to teach remotely and learning to learn remotely will complement each other.

Ginny Clifford

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Eileen Guzman
This course will expand my remote teaching skills.  I have been purposely limiting the technology I use because I've been teaching from home all year and want to feel comfortable with what has been working for me.
My goal is to become comfortable using more technology in my remote teaching.

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1. How do you predict this course might be valuable to you?

The course will be valuable because the future of education will never be as it was, and as a teacher I need to be ahead of the times. I am hoping to learn techniques to engage ALL students not just the ones that show up. The creation of an online activity will be the start of helping me feel prepared for whatever the next school year entails.

What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

My intention is to expand my knowledge in what did work in remote learning so that I may have a variety of ways to enrich my students Art experience. My goal is to create a unit that allows for more social interaction and collaboration.

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1. How do you predict this course might be valuable to you?

I am hoping to walk away from this course with some more tools for my toolbox in terms of sparking and maintaining engagement for my learning disabled students. I feel like that was my biggest stumbling block in the remote learning from the past year and a half and I am hoping that I will be able to improve my skills in this area.

What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

My intentions/goals are as stated above. I'm looking to increase my engagement skills and perhaps glean support strategies for learning disabled students with low motivation and home support.

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1. How do you predict this course might be valuable to you?

I think that this course will help prepare me should I find myself teaching remotely/virtually in the future. I also think that it will help me reflect on this past year and get some closure. I also think it will be healthy to hear about other educators' experiences from other districts. Usually, my school has 1-2 professional development days at the end of the school year for teachers, but this year, school ended for both teacher and students on the same day and it felt so abrupt.

2. What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

I hope to learn some new ways to teach my students using new technology and applications. I hope to never have a year like this past school year, but I do think that learning new technology and applications, as well as strategies will help me to become a better teacher. I'm always looking to grow and learn new things and I think that this course will help me to do so through collaboration with others and through the reflection of my own teaching.

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How do you predict this course might be valuable to you?

I think the big thing for me will be self-reflection on what I accomplished last year.  As most of last year seems a blur, the intentional lookback with specific prompts will most likely be beneficial to me.  Seeing what others have to say will also likely be of good benefit to me as well.  Much like discussion with fellow teaches in my building, seeing what others have to say about how they made it through the last year and a half, at least for now, gives me a sense that I am feeling what others have.

What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

I feel validation of what I am doing with virtual learning is part of what I am looking for.  I also think that seeing what else has worked for others is also something that I will be looking for - strategies to take with me and use as I move forward.

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Module 1, Assignment 3

1.How do you predict this course might be valuable to you?

I predict that this course will make me reflect on my virtual learning experiences and learn from my successes and challenges. I want this course to help me to feel more confident if we ever have to return to virtual learning. I want to learn strategies to feel as though I am using best practices and what is best for my students in remote learning. I also predict that it will teach me even more platforms to use both virtually and inside my traditional classroom.

2. What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

My goal for learning in this course is to deepen my knowledge of how best to reach, and engage, students during remote learning. During remote learning this past year, I felt as though I needed to base the learning on my teacher led instruction. This goes against my philosophy of teaching and learning. I want students to be engaged and active participants who drive their own learning, but during remote learning, I felt like the only way to be productive was for me to be the primary speaker. I want to learn how better to develop lessons and activities where the students are in control.

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1. This course will be valuable to me because it will help me look back on the various iterations of remote learning I've experienced and reflect on the things that worked well. I also look forward to processing this challenging time with my peers working in other districts, to sharing experiences with them, and to hearing from them about their take-aways.

2. My intentions/goals for this course are to
- review best practice for online learning and how those align with my own work.
- consider how I might apply the things that worked well (for me and others) during remote learning moving forward and to make a plan for implementation in my classroom.

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1.How do you predict this course might be valuable to you?

I predict that this course will make me reflect on my virtual learning experiences and learn from my successes and challenges. I want this course to help me to feel more confident if we ever have to return to virtual learning. I want to learn strategies to feel as though I am using best practices and what is best for my students in remote learning. I also predict that it will teach me even more platforms to use both virtually and inside my traditional classroom.

2. What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

My goal for learning in this course is to deepen my knowledge of how best to reach, and engage, students during remote learning. During remote learning this past year, I felt as though I needed to base the learning on my teacher led instruction. This goes against my philosophy of teaching and learning. I want students to be engaged and active participants who drive their own learning, but during remote learning, I felt like the only way to be productive was for me to be the primary speaker. I want to learn how better to develop lessons and activities where the students are in control.

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1. How do you predict this course might be valuable to you?

I’m looking for  ideas, strategies and techniques that would allow me to create more engaging content, practice tasks and assessments. I’m also eager to learn from other teachers’ experiences.

2. What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

Gain some practical experience with effective online tools that would make instruction delivery easy and engaging.

Learn what UDL and UbD tenets would be applicable to online learning.

Learn how to plan for and execute basic online learning modules and units.

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1. The course will be valuable to me because it will provide an opportunity to reflect on the experience of online learning. Reflection is a part of the learning process that we’re most inclined to skip in the busyness of our teaching lives. The opportunity to learn from colleagues is another valuable aspect of taking this course.

2. My intentions are to learn the best practices for online learning broadly speaking. I am also very interested in learning principles of UDL which apply to online learning. I intend to share my learning from this course with colleagues in my district.

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1. Having no experience teaching virtually, I'm confident that this course will be valuable as I learn from others experiences; what works and what doesn't, best practices and tools, challenges and triumphs.
2. My intention is to learn how to plan for and execute remote learning, and hopefully to connect with other special educators who have successfully delivered interventions and therapies to the population that I primarily work with.

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1. I am looking forward to learning new strategies and hearing what has and has not worked for others.  I am always looking for new ways and ideas to improve my remote instruction.

2. My intention is to learn and grow as an online educator. I'm excited to share and read about other's experiences. I hope to learn some new tips, tricks, platforms and applications that i can take back to my classroom, whether its virtually or in person.

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1. How do you predict this course might be valuable to you?

I’m always looking for new techniques and apps to use with my students. It is my hope that during this course I will not only be exposed to new teaching tools, but have the opportunity to use them.

2. What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

My learning goals for this course are to:

1. Learn from other educators

2. Be exposed to as many new techniques as possible, both for in-person and remote learning

3. Practical application of new tools

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1. I already see the early modules being sort of cathartic for me. I'm looking forward to sharing experiences with educators outside of my own district and reflecting together. I'm mostly looking forward to sharing ideas and resources, that's always the mark of quality PD for me, gaining things I can use in my own practice.

2.My goal here is to develop my own online teaching skills and resources to be better equipped to use them in the future. Hopefully we never have to go back to the early days when were were 100% remote, but I know we'll be offering students more options as we move forward, and I want to be ready to make that more successful than I have been in the past. Wave of the future, baby!

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1.    How do you predict this course might be valuable to you?

As soon as I read that this course will help you learn the best practices for online instruction as applied in a content area of your choice, I knew I had to take it. Like most teachers, in the spring of 2020 I was asked to set up remote instruction without much instruction on how to do it. Just as I was starting to feel a bit confident with remote teaching the school year ended. This past year I taught in person, so I have not had the opportunity to improve my remote teaching skills, so I am hoping to improve those skills through this course.

2.    What are your intentions/goals for your learning in this course?

I want to improve my ability to teach remote learners. Keeping kindergarten students engaged while learning remotely is a challenge. I am hoping through this course to learn about more tools available to me for setting up a remote classroom and to learn from the experiences of others about how they have successfully worked with young children during remote learning.

One of my biggest challenges during remote learning was working around family schedules. Parents were busy trying to navigate their jobs and deal with the new reality of remote learning. Kindergarten students must rely upon their parents a great deal to make remote learning successful, so I am hoping to hear from others about how they were able to make this experience easier for families with young students.

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1. This course will be valuable to learn new resources, strategies that worked for others, and to help identify quality teaching practices that I may not have made time for. I want to continually add to my toolbox.
2. My intention is to listen to how others were successful, research quality teaching ideas and then redesign my teaching strategies for more student success.