Moving from the cool tools to the not so cool stuff of blended learning, student learning outcomes, I wasn’t sure if we’d hold everyone’s attention. I think though we’ve turned the corner because I noticed many fellows embracing the concepts and ideas. Some were even going home to work with the student learning outcome tutorial. It’s been very satisfying.
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I like the idea that blogs, wikis and other social software can be used as repository of sorts. When a course is over, what happened is still there, potentially forever. Blackboard’s structure doesn’t allow that. Blackboard is useful for a lot of things, like an array of course management tasks.
Blogs and wikis do speed things up, the exchange of information and knowledge even, but I know some of us are wondering if we want “it” to get any faster. When I think of things getting faster, I panic when I think about controlling it, keeping tabs on it.
Ending thoughts from the groups:
Horizon Wimba may allow faculty to “never come to campus again” 60% of incoming freshman are coming to campus with a laptop but they might not have the resources, like headsets.
Ichat was intriguing. RSS is cool but it takes time to set up.
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I’m going to posting during the workshop when I can, like I did in Seattle. The schedule is here. It includes links to the tools sheets which I’ve found very helpful and have passed on to others.
