3rd week of class...

Well, I completed my first online class session today and it was super easy. In fact that hardest thing was remembering hey you are in class so don't get off task! Wimba is such a simple program to use and seeing presentations in it; Sandy's PPT, is really interesting too.

After class our History of IT team met online and we should be ready to go with that project shortly as well. 

Outside of class we (other team members of other classes) are trying to put together our first presentation for our capstone and I am going to introduce Tagxedo to them and see if we can fit it in where appropriate. Speaking of that project, I need to go do more research for it now....uhhh...

Hello to all my fans (basically myself).

We rounded our second class yesterday; I was among four others in the actual class room and was quite shocked at that. I couldn't believe how many elected to stay at home that was a first for me. It was a dreaded thought for me at first to try to stay home and go to class hahahah. Not anymore, after my first hands on wimba went from difficult in my mind to piece of cake

This program is really cool in fact and I hope to progress in learning it throughout the semester. I foresee schools bringing this program closer to other majors and students when ultimately many classes will offer a hybrid type of program. I don't know why this isn't used in any of the business online courses now.

First day of Intro to Instructional Tech

Welcome to my first blog post...ever.

This first blog post coincides with my first Instructional Tech class ever too, fantastic.  To be completely honest, I thought this was going to be somewhat of a repetitious course. One that touches on programs like Power Point; things that we (better yet I) know. Then once in class I'm saying to myself "Wimba? Whoba??? Web Tools 2.0? You mean Netscape Browser 2.0 from 1995? Hmmm.

 

Needless to say I should learn a lot from this course and it will without a doubt be applicable in the current and future military as presentations and training are conducted to an ever expanding audience. I'll begin reviewing Wimba and other tools to become familiar as soon as possible.