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Capstone II What an Adventure. Working with fantastic educators throughout the State of Virginia was a dream come true. It is impossible to explain everything that was learned during this adventure. Above you will find a brief video capturing the highlights of my adventure. I hope you enjoy!!

Final Week At Last

So where will I go from here. To be honest, I am hoping to take a break this summer, but knowing me, I will be taking another technology course. I would like to teach on the community college level some day so I will need at least 18 technology credits. I am not sure if this counts for 8 or not??

To explain what I learned from Capstone would take more than a few paragraphs. I can say Katie sure stretched me in Capstone I and she also assured us that Capstone II would not be as difficult which were both true statements. I always wanted to use bookmarks such as PortaPortal; however, I never had a chance to set them up before. Now I have it set up and I am able to use my bookmarks no matter where I am. In addition, the tools I gained through everyone in both classes are amazing. Never thought I would say this, but I will miss this class, well all of your ideas. Finally, check out my final project and let me know what you think.

The most significant learning moments were working with my eighth graders  and high school classes to create an Edu.Glogster portfolio which I would have never done without this class. Also, presenting to the faculty with confidence and the over 50 fellow educators at the Hampton Roads Association of Christian Schools was also something that Capstone helped to push me towards.

My next steps professionally would be to continue to be a life-long learner. Probably everyone in this course has that to say as technology is constantly changing and our students pick up to it so very quickly that we have to continue learning to stay ahead of them, or at least try to stay at least a week ahead of them.

Thanks everyone for everything. It would be great for us small school types to have all of your knowledge on a continuous basis. Feel free to stop past my blog anytime you find something new or amazing. Thanks again.

Capstone II is Coming to a CLOSE!!

I just submitted my final Portfolio for Capstone II. It is hard to believe I am finally almost through. All that is left is to make corrections from the final reviewer and create a demonstration to share with the faculty at our school. Not to say that will be the easiest thing in the world to do, but once those two items are completed, I will be completely done. Is all of this worth eight JMU credits?? Ask me that in a few weeks :) I will truly miss learning from each member of my class. The new technology I learned during this session include Museum Box, Edu.Glogster, Answer Box, Animoto, just to name a few. My PortaPortal is full of resources that I will be able to look back over and try a few.

Well as normal, I have grading to do so until next time. . . .

More New Tools

While deciding what I will complete my final project with, I had time to reflect on some new resources I learned in Capstone II. My new favorite is Kizoa.Com; however, I got half way through with this free slideshow creator to realize that I could not add my voice for FREE. I thought about adding video in a slideshow using PowerPoint, but I have to look at a million of those soon so I decided not to use it. I could have used MovieMaker, but my students just finished using that too so I wanted something new. Animoto is great. It only cost $5 a month, but still I was looking for free. Finally my oldest son, who is not computer savvy, used PhotoStory so I knew I could not be so hard. So PhotoStory it is.

Thanks for stopping by my blog. Let me know if you find a new resource you would like to share with me.