Course Reflections

Content: I honestly took this course because I enjoyed Dr. Chandler’s teaching style when I had her last semester for Creative Non-Fiction. This course was very different from the previous course I had with her, but it was very educational because it focused on the different types of media that we use today. Our society is growing more and more technologically advanced by the day and this course was very helpful in assisting us with learning more about the different technologies and how they relate to literacy.

Activities: I really liked how open this class was. Most of us all had the same experiences with technology and the activities we did in class and the ones we did at home, really helped with understanding the course objectives.

Assignments: I think we had a relatively decent amount of work to complete. I don’t think I would have asked for more or less – what we had to do was sufficient with the time frame we were given. Also, I think the readings were great with helping to understand the course - and technology/literacy.

Liked: Out of all the assignments, I liked the presentations with the different groups because each group covered a different topic and the presentations were all very interesting. I also enjoyed learning how to build a web site because I feel that as a future teacher, this will be something that I will find useful in the future. I also liked blogging. After last semester, I decided I really enjoyed blogging and kept with it.

Dislikes: I did not like the Wikipedia assignment much – just for the fact that I am still confused by the entire process. Even though a few of my classmates explained chatting with the “supervisors” of the posts, I still am not very clear about it. However, I am happy to say that my post is still up!

More: I liked that we had workshop time in class and I think that it was very useful and helpful to us all – particularly with the web site building.

Less: I think Kean needs to do something with the computers because some of us really had a hard time with them this semester – especially with FrontPage. I think if the computers were workable, there would be no problem for this class.

**Overall I really enjoyed this course. It was very interesting and I developed new skills that I feel will be very helpful for me in the future.