My favorite discoveries from this class would definitely be the social bookmarking. Delicious is such a great idea! I really can get behind anything that gives me the opportunity to share information with other people. On top of that, I can access my bookmarks from any computer and if something happens to my computer, I wouldn't lose my bookmarks that I had saved. In addition, and for the same reasons, I really like the websites like flikr and the photo and video sharing websites. I found that all of the exercises were definitely helpful, but the conversations that were shared via chat really helped because I got ideas from other students, as well as helpful websites. Making a WebQuest was cool too because I never thought I would take the time to do something, but now I realize how much time goes into it as well as how much of a benefit it really is for kids and how closely it is related to scaffolding!
This course has definitely helped my lifelong learning goals! I was opened up to a whole new set of skills and utilities that I had never been interested in before. I realized that I didn't know as much as I thought I had known previously.
This class has a lot of great information and the projects were not tedious as much as they were fun. I'm glad that we were not necessarily graded on how excellent our work was as much as how much we were on our effort, which was refreshing and encouraging. I will definitely be interested in pursuing what I've learned to a greater extent of knowledge. I was surprised at how easily I took interest in this class and how much fun it has been.
I'm not sure how you could improve upon this class, but I think that maybe sharing of the work we have done would be great. I know you have posted the bookmarking websites, but I would have liked to see the other websites, which I'm sure you'll post at some point. The concept of the site is great, I think it'd be valuable to do a podcast involving the blog you make. I know it's really easy to make a podcast using the program called "audacity" and you don't even need to have a microphone, you can just plug in your earphones to the microphone jack on the computer and use it that way. It seems like a really helpful thing to learn for teachers, and it's something I've done successfully in another class I had at SUNY Geneseo.
I would definitely participate in another class like this one. I feel like it's very practical, new and refreshing. The online format is not my favorite because I tend to mess up dates when I have a day off from work or when I'm on vacation from school and so I would rather take it in a physical classroom, but I think that I would definitely enjoy another hands-on, creative class like this one! :)
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