Week 4 Reflection

1. Reflect on your experience with logo (thanks Joe).
2. Reflect on the online class session with Mr. Reed. What impacted you the most and/or what new questions do you have?

Terrapin Logo seems like useful software to know how to use. It is fairly simple to use and there are a lot of great features with it. I completed the first assignments somewhat easily, but when I started the quilt assignment is where I hit difficulty. Logo's undo command will only undo the previous drawing and will not return the turtle to the previous position. If you make a mistake and do not realize and keep working, it is too late to go back and undo it. This caused me the most frustration with the program. Other than that I liked using it. It forces you to think about the interior angles of shapes and relationships between them and the rotation angle that you must use to construct the shapes.

The online class session with Mr. Reed was interesting. I thought what he had to say was extremely useful. I however do not see how he can use so much technology in his classroom and expect students to use it outside of the classroom as well. He was talking about how students were able to check and complete homework while they were away from school, which would be awesome if it were possible in every classroom. I do not know if it would be applicable in every classroom. It would require every student to own or have access to a computer and/or internet. And also the computer that they use must have enough space and be somewhat up to date to run some of the software that we use. I love the idea of using so much technology in classrooms because I think it is an excellent resource for students to use. I know that I am still somewhat new to this, but I hope to learn how to make this possible in classrooms. With the high school that I went to, I feel like it would not be as successful as Mr. Reed got it to be in his school district. I hope to make it like that when I am a teacher in the future.