Michal's Tech Journey

  At the beginning of this course, there was a learning curve with some of the tech tools. In particular, Prezi and Screenpal took me hours to relearn. I do not teach online, and I do not make that many videos with my classes, When I do make videos, I tend to use the simple video making tool on D2L or Zoom. At the beginning of the course, I was a little bit discouraged by the hours it took me to figure out these tools. I only ended up using Prezi once, but I did use Screenpal for a few of the assignments. When I used Prezi in the past, it allowed users to record per slide, but that is no longer the case. Regardless of the earlier challenges, things started to go more smoothly around week three. That said, I will certainly be using Screenpal in the future. It is going to be useful for some committee work at the college. I plan to use it to create some educational trainings for the classroom observations for the new tenure-track faculty. Despite the early challenges with the te...