Reflections after 5 weeks

One of my favorite experiences was the weekly chat session.  My group was really diverse and it was great to pull on each person's experiences during the weekly chats.  It made much of the material in the screencasts and readings really come to life.  Of all of the technologies we covered, I cannot think of a single one that wouldn't be good for me personally.  I have a blog currently and I want to explore wikis and RSS feeds and so on.  I find all of this really stimulating.  On a professional level, at least to begin with, blogs and wikis are the most useful tools.  For me, they are the easiest to implement and explain to my users- both faculty and students.  I do believe that many of my folks are already tuned into feeds and other things like social bookmarking on their own.

The most unexpected outcome was the blog I started for my final project.  The idea and implementation came directly from taking the class.  I don't believe I would have seen how easy it was to really launch one beyond the blog I keep for my personal use, if I hadn't seen so many in action through this class.  Now I want to push on and implement a wiki.

I really liked the format and concept.  I did have some technical issues accessing some of the screencasts and could never seem to make the live presentations work for me.  Luckily they were all archived and I could get to them that way.  I don't know if there is a good workaround for that, but maybe it is something to think about.  I am glad I participated in the course.