Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Selling myself the idea

Selling Myself the idea....
This is the way I feel about this course. So far, learning about all the tools available for us to use in education has been shocking, if you may. It is unbelievable how many resources there are available for teachers and students to use for a good number of tasks that I was not aware of. Then, it hit me..... My brain started bombarding me about how many things I could do to adjust to different educational or training situations. With Google docs, for instance, the way you can program surveys and show results. It just would be applicable for so many situations. We could have Ss use it for research, oral presentations with visual support, also we could implement surveys with teacher training, customer service, etc.
However, and inspite how wonderful online learning and all these great tools might sound, there is an issue which our instructor mentions in his reflection: limited access to internet and limited knowledge about it. This is relevant to our group course development- a true challenge indeed. What are we going to do with all the knowledge we will have gotten throughout the course, and more importnatly: how are we going to put it to work for our course sake?
I am very concerned about this since for every project I start, I like to have a whole picture in my mind of. And here we are.... four weeks later and the picture is still blurred to me.