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I come away from this course gaining new knowledge and resources. This final week’s video material entails what technology holds for us in the future. I was truly intrigued with Sasha Barab’s video “[|New Media Engagement]” who explains how new media literacies are creating new opportunities for student participation. The soul of technology holds a wide array of opportunities for students in a variety of areas, especially those who have aspirations of pursuing careers in multimedia. But in order to benefit its worth, he states we must “appreciate the power we have, teachers need to advocate for themselves.”

Throughout the course, we have been exposed to a variety of student-center learning activities. Those of which provide cooperative learning, assessment, Web 2.0 tools and the list goes on. There is profoundly a world of technology that has yet to be tapped in education as it should. It is up to us educators to make sure we begin the process and develop professional training for our campuses, for the purpose of placing emphasis on technology integration into our curriculum.

The following links provide additional resouces for instructional purposes:

[] netTrekker is a program that connects you to a wide array of standards-aligned digital resources and technology tools that are specifically designed for engaging students in a learning experience environment that supports their unique needs. [] Professional Development training on literacy, assessments, technology integration, curriculum and more.

[] RubiStar is a program that helps teachers create rubrics.