Class (class)

So.. we come to the end of my Educational Technology class, and here is my final blog for the class.

It was honestly a delight, and a bit of a surprise. Most early technology classes have the reputation of being blow offs for anyone a little tech-savvy. My wife took the edu tech class at Prairie State years ago and told me that she basically had to show up to pass. It's not the type of class I like to take, so I kind of dreaded it. I mean, I'm paying to get an education.. not to show up. So I was pleasantly surprised when I found out how Kim ran her class. I count myself as fairly tech savvy, but Prof. Heintz interested me enough in the assignments and technology presented to us that I found myself trying to find new ways to do stuff I already knew about. The professor really new her stuff and honestly seemed interested in it, so that enthusiasm really made it more exciting for everyone.
The only real downside in the class was that it didn't (couldn't) contain enough. Due to monetary and temporal constraints we just couldn't fit all the great tools with potential in education. We talked about how cool the Smart Board is, but without a working board, it was really only theoretical. How could we know if it's user friendly without getting a chance to use one? In addition, there was just a lot of stuff we could only touch on. Things that the prof. admitted she was breezing through.
So, though difficult at times, it was a great class and I learned quite a bit. It was especially challenging to fit everything into our individual genres (some assignments more than others), but it was fun too.