I wanted to jot down a few items as I am thinking about the end of CI 555.
First of all – great class. I LOVED this learning experience. It all felt very new and exciting, and I liked the way we could tailor our learning to fit OUR needs. It was extremely meaningful.
I really liked the textbooks this round. They were different and it made for interesting reading, at least for me. Plus RSS For Educators will be a good resource for me to have at my fingertips.
I think using Twitter was a good experience in terms of knowing what it is and what it does. However, I’m not sure it provided the best way for us to communicate as a group. Perhaps a group blog or some kind of message board or user group might have been a better way to get the group to communicate as a class. I didn’t feel as free to post on Twitter as I would have, had it been more of a private setting. I’m guessing others felt the same way because it felt like we were all a little quieter than normal using this tool. I really missed the more frequent interaction with classmates, and I know that we all have a lot of good stuff to share.
Continuing on the subject of our class communication, I was somewhat disappointed with the overly flexible attitude toward blogging. Because it was okay for people to post everything all at once right at the end, there were a couple people who completely fell off the planet these past eight weeks. And though I understand the desire for privacy on the part of some people, the point of the class was to be sharing online what we didn't always have the time to communicate in class. The disconnect was troubling to me.
Having said that, I liked how this class was set up to respect our time, giving us more opportunity to work and less time to spend chattering in class, just for the sake of putting in the class hours (like we have experienced in the past). I do think, however, that when we had the TWO weeks off in between class, I found myself struggling a lot more to stay on task.
The times we did have class, I left feeling excited, overwhelmed, and sometimes on the verge of a migrane – probably because there was so much to learn and take in. It was actually great to feel like that. I really believe I was getting something out of class, which was awesome. I think we could have met every week and learned a lot each week. This is definitely a class that I wished would have been longer…
Our last night of class confirmed those feelings even more. I left class completely wound up and out of sorts. It was unsettling to leave the way we did. Most people were not able to share their hard work from these past eight weeks, and even people who were given the chance to share felt rushed I think. There wasn’t any closure. It just felt bad to finish that way. Especially considering this was one of the best class experiences I’ve had through Concordia thus far.
First of all – great class. I LOVED this learning experience. It all felt very new and exciting, and I liked the way we could tailor our learning to fit OUR needs. It was extremely meaningful.
I really liked the textbooks this round. They were different and it made for interesting reading, at least for me. Plus RSS For Educators will be a good resource for me to have at my fingertips.
I think using Twitter was a good experience in terms of knowing what it is and what it does. However, I’m not sure it provided the best way for us to communicate as a group. Perhaps a group blog or some kind of message board or user group might have been a better way to get the group to communicate as a class. I didn’t feel as free to post on Twitter as I would have, had it been more of a private setting. I’m guessing others felt the same way because it felt like we were all a little quieter than normal using this tool. I really missed the more frequent interaction with classmates, and I know that we all have a lot of good stuff to share.
Continuing on the subject of our class communication, I was somewhat disappointed with the overly flexible attitude toward blogging. Because it was okay for people to post everything all at once right at the end, there were a couple people who completely fell off the planet these past eight weeks. And though I understand the desire for privacy on the part of some people, the point of the class was to be sharing online what we didn't always have the time to communicate in class. The disconnect was troubling to me.
Having said that, I liked how this class was set up to respect our time, giving us more opportunity to work and less time to spend chattering in class, just for the sake of putting in the class hours (like we have experienced in the past). I do think, however, that when we had the TWO weeks off in between class, I found myself struggling a lot more to stay on task.
The times we did have class, I left feeling excited, overwhelmed, and sometimes on the verge of a migrane – probably because there was so much to learn and take in. It was actually great to feel like that. I really believe I was getting something out of class, which was awesome. I think we could have met every week and learned a lot each week. This is definitely a class that I wished would have been longer…
Our last night of class confirmed those feelings even more. I left class completely wound up and out of sorts. It was unsettling to leave the way we did. Most people were not able to share their hard work from these past eight weeks, and even people who were given the chance to share felt rushed I think. There wasn’t any closure. It just felt bad to finish that way. Especially considering this was one of the best class experiences I’ve had through Concordia thus far.
Those are my thoughts… See ya’ll next week.
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