Final Post- Reflection on Course

 Similar to the sentiments that I shared within the "Photo Story 3" highlight slide show that I created, this course has truly opened my eyes to the benefits of effective utilization of technology within the classroom. All of us, as special education majors, regardless of the student population that we plan to work with, understand that all students within a given classroom are unique, and require alternative instructional perspectives and techniques to be able to achieve success within the classroom. This class has come to expose us to an amazingly vast amount of resources to refer to when attempting to locate technologies that meet our perspective students' needs. I loved both the autonomy and independence that this course afforded to us; we were never harnessed down to work within a specific scope of technologies, and were forced to independently apply and consider the potential uses of the technologies that we selected to investigate. Our learning within this course was dependent upon our desire to advance and develop pedagogically, and, in consideration of the work that I completed and the technological, instructional knowledge that I acquired, I believe that this course was effective in exposing me to ways in which different types of technologies (both simple and complex, independent and collective) can be used to meet the needs of a diverse group of students. My experience within this course was nothing but positive, and, although I was unsure of my ability to successfully work within an online medium, I came to recognizer the collaboration that ensued between myself and my colleagues through both our personal blogs and the class's wiki page as being one of the most beneficial components of the course. I came to learn about myself as an aspiring educator, and have gained confidence in regards to my ability to locate various, effective technologies on my own.