As an online instructor at our local community college for over five years, I see the benefits of this form of instructional learning to be very beneficial to those who need to fit schooling around a work schedule. The same hold true for teachers who need to plan professional development around a long school day or well deserved summer break.
I enjoyed designing my professional development course to enlighten teachers to Web 2.0 tools and how they can be implemented in the classroom curriculum. Through reading “Understanding by Design” and using the backward design, I was able to take my goal of integrating technology into curriculum and create an online course. My future plans for this course is to move it over to a better learning management system and to continue to develop and expand the course so that I might implement the class with the teachers at my new job in the fall.
