I am Tamilselvi Gopal. I am a full-time graduate student in science education at the Center for Science and Mathematics Education (USM). This is my fourth semester towards my doctoral degree. I earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Biology, and another bachelor’s degree in education, back in
I have not taken any online courses before. This is my very first experience. During the progress of my degree I got opportunities to develop some computer skills like word processing - while preparing for the assignments, spreadsheets for data analysis of a project work, and power point slides for presentations. I also have experience working with Adobe acrobat for PDF, Inspiration for concept mapping, and Inkscape for graphics. I used the communication tools like email, listserv and chat while I was submitting my works for other SME and BSC projects, presentations and assignments. I really like the way email, listserv and chats work, since it saves time and avoids confusion.
During my course work I also had chances to use technology tools like podcasts, wikis, blogs, and video clips. When I was working on research projects, for any unknown topic I first go to wikipedia to get an idea about the concept, and then later I collect some more reliable data to get deeper understanding. For the presentations, I have used video clips from Google videos or You tube videos to make the presentation interesting and easy. When I am browsing to learn something new, I prefer to use some video clips or pod casts to listen and understand. Even in some of my classes my instructors used them.
I think this course would teach me more educational technologies than those I am aware of. At the same time, I also hope this course would help me to implement efficiently the tools and techniques that I already use in my class.
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