When creating the blended course, one of the major issues I ran into was to make a course at the level of my first graders. The age group I teach needs a lot of support when using technology in the classroom. They struggle with typing since this is a new skill that they are learning. When creating the blended course design, it was vital that I took their technology level into consideration and created activities that they won’t struggle with. Next time, I will make a part of the lesson that goes over explicitly how to use the components of the blended course. Another challenge I faced was finding technology tools for the blended course, I wanted to make sure these activities were accessible for the students. Finding ways to integrate technology in the course was a learning experience for me. It made me aware of the numerous technology tools that are available. I hope to use these tools in future blended course designs. I feel that I could have done a better job of finding vastly different technology tools in the blended course design. Next time, I want to make sure that each lesson has very different technology tools. Also, I want to find different tools that I have not used before.

            I feel that if I designed this course for a different audience, I would have to find different technology tools to have in the blended course. The course I designed focused on key details in a text, and this is something that is worked on in many grades at the elementary level. I feel that if I designed this course for the upper elementary level, then I could have students write their own stories to show key details or use an online story creator to do this. I feel that the activities can get more complex and detailed as higher the grade level gets. I also feel that if I was designing this course for my first graders towards the middle and the end of the year, the technology activities of the lesson may be easier for them since they have practiced using technology.