My favorite project/discovery was the social bookmarking! I absolutely love Delicious.com. I use it all of the time now that I know about it. I am constantly adding links and new web pages. It would have been extremely helpful to know about this website while student teaching and even in undergrad while writing up all of the unit plans we had to do! So that project was definitely my favorite and definitely something that I will always use in and out of the classroom.
I will also continue using my blog and my wiki page to make web quests. I like the idea of using the blog to keep students updated and on track with my personal class. As for the web quests (depending on the demographic of my students) I love having students do projects that show their understanding of the unit we are completing. So the web quest makes it much easier to assign these types of assignments.
This course should be a requirement for all education undergrads because the information you gain from this class would help them tremendously during their student teaching placements.
I have always agreed that technology in the classroom is important, but I never had any knowledge of how to start or make my own blog, social bookmarks, wiki and web quests. So this class has been extremely important and if I ever find a job in the teaching world, I will definitely implement these technologies into my classroom.
As for improvements of the course, I enjoyed the reading and the videos. The projects were educational and relevant. I really don’t see where the course can be improved upon besides making it a requirement instead of option to take this course. On second thought maybe getting a midpoint grade on the discussions would be extremely helpful.
If there was another course offered like this one, then yes I would definitely sign up to take it. This is a course every teacher should take and learn from. This course is extremely more useful than the out of date CSC (I think this is what the course was) computer course they make you take as an undergrad!
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