Week 1 Reflection and Storify

After reading Saha's article on Distance Learning in the US-Past, Present, and Future, I really put everything together and that was when I created my Storify.  Storify was a new tool for me and I felt myself learning as I played with it.  I can definitely see myself using this more and more throughout the program. Here is my Storify: Blending Technology Into Teaching

Distance Learning to me is something very new.  I was almost shocked to know that it is being used in my school.  There are a few teachers in my school that use IPADS in their classrooms and teach using the internet and other tools rather than a traditional classroom setting.  These different types of teaching techniques are rolling out in many schools and forcing many teachers to prepare themselves to learn technology.

I also read about PLN (Personal Learning Networks) which is something that my school is also implementing.  Students are able to choose a subject that they find interesting and go out and really research it.  These personal learning networks can be anything from going out in the community and interning with businesses to doing an independent study of a class that is not offered at the school.  These ideas are really bringing education to an entirely new level.

I was very excited to begin this new course of Distance Learning with a professor that was at a distance.  It would be a real test of the "online" course that I have not really yet been introduced to.  I was interested to see how it would all play out.