#23 Summarize your thoughts

I found this course to be extremely valuable and will certainly recommend it to my colleagues.  Since we don’t start back with the students for another week, I’ve yet to incorporate any of the new tools in my classroom.  Thus, I had to give questions 8-10 a score of three on the survey.   However, I have made it a goal to implement at least one new thing each semester for this coming school year.  I am especially motivated to work on a Calculus website as I move through topics this year that I can launch for the students the following year.  I had a bad experience creating a Blackboard account, so I look forward to doing this “on my own terms”.

With regards to the 23 things to do, I have to admit it became extremely overwhelming as I would rather have spent more in-depth time on fewer things.  My concern with this course is the same I have after other intense trainings on new educational tools – how will I find the time to implement them?   I do understand the need for the course to be more of an overview of all the tools, as each of us will find different items more useful.  Thus, as a follow-up course, I would prefer to now choose from the list of tools and have deeper instruction on them and assignments which allow me to actually set-up something specific for the courses I teach.   I would not sign up for another overview of more tools, if that is indeed what the next course is as I have not even scratched the surface of using what I now already know.

To know there is an easy way for me to create my own webpage that I can manage myself and invite only certain people to view is the most useful thing I got from this course.  Although, I love all the visual things we can do, which I will indeed incorporate in my webpage.  I liked a lot of the other ideas too, but most likely will wait a while before using them.

YAY - DONE BEFORE SCHOOL STARTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Let the fun begin...