Educ 482 - That Designs Class

Welcome to my blog. As you notice I do not use my name but one of a few handles. I've adopted, long ago, the mantra that the internet is Evil and giving out one's personal information shall forever remain taboo. Pipl.com really reinforced this claim and I plan not to give out anymore information that I must =) Anyways I digress. This blog will serve two purposes this semester, the first purpose is Educ 482 and the other class Educ 46X. So some multimedia stuff will crop up here and some designs will crop up here as well and there might even be some cross over and intermixing of the two!

The first class of DFlit was interesting, even if it was an introductory day/gloss over of topics. The class looks like it is shaping up to be an interesting adventure. The mixing of of extremely modern technology with the classroom seems especially interesting. I think someone brought up a good point where just bringing in technology in the classroom isn't the only important factor, but being able to integrate it in a meaningful way so that students actually benefit from it.

The discussions look good as well as the webpage that allows ALL of us to edit it (hopefully we maintain our edict) gives us a sense of freedom that, at least for me, is unfounded. I also particuarly like how we were able to set up the criteria for our we will be marked in class for the discussions. A little integration of that for/of/as learning that everyone has been talking about lately. I think the only reservation I currently have is how some of the topics in infotech will be discussed in this course. Josh will be able to express this concern more eloquently than I, but will there be any points where we will discuss methods of teaching programming in the classroom. The same can be asked with some of the "Office" skills that those courses cover. Well we'll let things play out and see what happens.

Hope to have a great semester with everyone.