My reflections

My thoughts of this class so far…..I am overwhelmed!!!!....The work is not hard…just time consuming……Not to mention all the great tools and sites we have been exploring.
The CMSimple is easy to work in and a wide variety of templates to suit anybody’s taste. I think I could use this application to help students with their first web site. As far as creating videos…I had an extremely hard time getting that done. Not because it was hard to do or upload….that was the easy part. It was more reviewing myself….I guess the worst critic is yourself. I can safely say I have no aspirations to go to Hollywood and see myself on the big screen..lol…Blogging is new for me…..This semester I have been having a hard time writing down my thoughts. I am not sure why anybody would want to read my thoughts…but it does make for a good journal and a way to go back and revisit the material you have written about. In the position listing, I didn’t realize how vague I had described the position until I had read some of the other posts. After thinking about it, if you don’t be specific, the task of sifting through all of the applicants could be time consuming as well as discouraging.
The google image labeler was kool. Here is something similar. I liked the concept. I wished I could think of a way to get my housework done for free. Maybe I could turn it into a game and get the kids to do it for me…..Second life was a trip….I’ve never been much of a navigator and in a virtual world it was no different. I ended in some world where they were talking in Japanese. It was a good thing I met Alana the first time I got on and she transported me to our class meeting. It was awesome to sit around a table just like a real classroom. But even with DIs instructions getting use to flying was difficult. I was so embarrassed that I got on the roller coaster and left the rest of the class…..I don’t even like roller coasters (even in the virtual world..lol) and I wanted off just as soon as I got on. The thing wouldn’t stop so I figured out how to stand and jump off…I would have been killed on a real one…..I did make it back, but I didn’t like that I couldn’t hear the conversation and I just heard music….I would liked to have cut the music off. I think when I get the chance to spend more time I will learn to love SL and especially meeting and learning from other people. Well I struggled with Wikipedia, wiktionary and wikiersity. I don’t have enough self confidence to project my thoughts on what others have added. I did think it was kool how you could go in and edit…to be an author …. To add material for the benefit of others…. I think I post plog to our definitions (a political blog)…only to come back later to find that it was a made up word..lol…I should of done a little more research on the word…I did get it off of wikionary….Goes to show that not everybody knows what they are doing and someone does monitor the site for discrepancies and accuracy.

Overall, I am having a blast in this class…..still overwhelmed by the assignments and all of the tools out there…but learning so much….. I look forward to getting caught up and learning so so much more 