Today's blog is a short reflection on the semester as a whole for our online course. Overall I would say that this course has exceeded my expectations. Originally I was nervous about taking an online course because I was afraid that it would be too easy not to do the work. I thought that without the pressure of going to class I would fall behind. In fact just the opposite happened, I was routinely ahead. I fell into a routine of making my blog post every Friday morning and the helpful reminders from my professor let me plan on doing things way ahead of time.
Because there was no set class time I was flexible to get the course done and could be selective with the reading I did, choosing things that interested me and blogging about them. I also really liked that the course encouraged me to keep my blog up to date with a new post every week about something we had learned. As someone who had dabbled in the blogosphere before our class it was gave me a fresh idea to keep my blog up to date, it was easy to write for the class because I have grown to like blogging.
I think that I have learned a great deal of information that will help me over the course of my career as each week I was able to write and reflect on a new idea. I have these in my personal blog so it is unlike other courses where I will lose all the work that I did, or want to throw everything away... it is on the internet for me to go find anytime I want.
The use of twitter, wikis, social bookmarking, cloud computing, digital storytelling, and online presentations are all tools that I discovered or learned something new about during our class. I hope to use all, if not most, of these tools in my future classroom.
Thank you for reading Mom, really appreciate it. If anyone else out there read weekly then I appreciate you too! Guess I will have to find something else to write about now... hmm... not sure what that will look like. Anyways thanks for reading and talk to you soon.
Because there was no set class time I was flexible to get the course done and could be selective with the reading I did, choosing things that interested me and blogging about them. I also really liked that the course encouraged me to keep my blog up to date with a new post every week about something we had learned. As someone who had dabbled in the blogosphere before our class it was gave me a fresh idea to keep my blog up to date, it was easy to write for the class because I have grown to like blogging.
I think that I have learned a great deal of information that will help me over the course of my career as each week I was able to write and reflect on a new idea. I have these in my personal blog so it is unlike other courses where I will lose all the work that I did, or want to throw everything away... it is on the internet for me to go find anytime I want.
The use of twitter, wikis, social bookmarking, cloud computing, digital storytelling, and online presentations are all tools that I discovered or learned something new about during our class. I hope to use all, if not most, of these tools in my future classroom.
Thank you for reading Mom, really appreciate it. If anyone else out there read weekly then I appreciate you too! Guess I will have to find something else to write about now... hmm... not sure what that will look like. Anyways thanks for reading and talk to you soon.