Sunday, July 20, 2008

Summary: My Crazy Trip through Web 2.0

I can't begin to thank the instructors, PFK, Mesquite ISD, and everyone else involved in the creation of this class. I have learned so much and have had so much fun learning. I have been telling all of my Mesquite teacher friends about this class and how great it is. My family thinks I have gone nuts because I "play" on the computer all the time! And, my youngest son said, "I can't believe that you are taking a class to teach you how to play on the computer at work!!" My very favorite-most Thing was Animoto. I absolutely love making the little 30 second videos and I am very seriously contemplating paying the $30 a year for unlimited videos. I can see so many uses for school, Scouts, family, and friends. I have also used Image Chef a lot. I guess that the biggest surprise of all that has come out of taking this class is the fact that I can really do all of this stuff! I always thought that it would be too hard or too complicated to learn all of the "fancy" stuff, but it has been so easy. Even if I had a little difficulty figuring something out, I kept on until I "got it". Learning it for myself, by myself, just helped me to remember how to do it next time. I can't think of a way to improve the format. This is my best style of learning: self-paced, figure it out yourself with the instructions. I guess that is why it was so easy for me to follow. I would definitely take another class like this. I am hoping that there are more cool things to learn, because I am ready for another one next summer!! I am kind of sad to be finished and I have to admit that I kind of poked along on the last ones, making them last. Like at Christmas, when you don't want to open up that last present because you want to make it last longer. I plan to keep on "playing around" with all of my newly learned tools so that I can find lots of uses for them next year at Berry. If nothing else, I can just teach all my friends what to do!!

1 comment:

Debbie said...

Congratulations! If you want to continue to explore and “play” with new Web 2.0 tools, check out this blog. You might try adding it to your Google or Bloglines reader.

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