Final Webconference for EDLD 5306

As I sit here reflecting on the last web conference of EDLD 5306 held Thursday, June 23, 2011, I wonder what I have gotten myself in to. I still am not able to get the lighting for my web cam correct and basically chose not to use it. Also, I can’t seem to get it at an appropriate distance, so I have a major frontal view of my face. This isn’t something else that I want to necessarily share with my classmates. In the final week of the class we are to create our Internship Plan along with the Principal Competencies. During the web conference, all of my classmates gave good information and suggestions on how to develop these two projects, but I am still totally lost. Everyone has been so helpful and I am grateful. I am glad that I couldn’t get my webcam or mic to work properly, because it would have been embarrassing for everyone to see me crying uncontrollably throughout the web conference at the overwhelming thoughts of completing these projects in the next 3 days. I just finished my first year of teaching so I have no educational experience to help me plan activities. I am also finding out that I don’t have a lot of technology experience and technology isn’t readily shared or used at my school, so this creates another huge disadvantage for me. I do not even know how to create an activity when I don’t know anything about the technology that can be used or the technology already being used in my school. What have I gotten myself into?