I love you, I hate you. Ah, the roller-coaster ride that describes my relationship with technology. Last week, I spent way too many hours (most of them my precious free time) trying to figure out how to upload, edit, and upload again a video of my lecture. Through no fault of my own or anyone else's, I eventually had to succumb to failure for the assignment that week. Eventually the problem was cleared up, and I finally had my first video of myself giving a lecture! In my excitement, I raced to this blog to upload the video, and subsequently deleted my entire entry from last week's blog post. It was like a part of my soul had been chipped away.
This week, I resolved to be more careful and to get the assignment done correctly- and I did. It seems as though I say this every week, but what we have done so far really has the potential to change everything. We are working this week with the learning managment system Haiku, and I am happy as can be. Besides having everything I want for my courses, Haiku is extremely simple and user-friendly. This extremely important for people like myself who are resitant to change and everything that comes with it.
One of my biggest concerns is how the faculty of CBHS will react when we begin introducing all of the technology in the coming years. With the Haiku system, most of these worries have since abated. Within an hour or so, I easily uploaded and created enough to get me through a few days worth of work in my classes- all accesible online for my students, teachers, and anyone I would want to see. I also began exploring other tools such as the assesment portion of the LMS, and inviting people to join my class. Finally, for those of us who teach multiple subjects there is the ability to add more than one class. This program is awesome and has the potential to do some very good things for our educational system.
On a note of caution, one thing I must continue to remind myself is to take it slow. There is so much that I want to do right now it is easy to get ahead of myself. I want to gradually introduce more materials, and little by little do more with the system. Within a week or so, after I have tweeked and adjusted my class, I would like to begin requiring my students to do some work via the program. My goal is to be able to incorporate much of the system into my class coming in the fall of next year.
For now, technology, I love you. Thanks for making my life easier at times. I know I can be hard to deal with, but so can you. When we get to these difficult roadbloacks, I try to remember all the good times we have shared, and the great future we have together. Stop hogging the covers, and I may keep you around.
This week, I resolved to be more careful and to get the assignment done correctly- and I did. It seems as though I say this every week, but what we have done so far really has the potential to change everything. We are working this week with the learning managment system Haiku, and I am happy as can be. Besides having everything I want for my courses, Haiku is extremely simple and user-friendly. This extremely important for people like myself who are resitant to change and everything that comes with it.
One of my biggest concerns is how the faculty of CBHS will react when we begin introducing all of the technology in the coming years. With the Haiku system, most of these worries have since abated. Within an hour or so, I easily uploaded and created enough to get me through a few days worth of work in my classes- all accesible online for my students, teachers, and anyone I would want to see. I also began exploring other tools such as the assesment portion of the LMS, and inviting people to join my class. Finally, for those of us who teach multiple subjects there is the ability to add more than one class. This program is awesome and has the potential to do some very good things for our educational system.
On a note of caution, one thing I must continue to remind myself is to take it slow. There is so much that I want to do right now it is easy to get ahead of myself. I want to gradually introduce more materials, and little by little do more with the system. Within a week or so, after I have tweeked and adjusted my class, I would like to begin requiring my students to do some work via the program. My goal is to be able to incorporate much of the system into my class coming in the fall of next year.
For now, technology, I love you. Thanks for making my life easier at times. I know I can be hard to deal with, but so can you. When we get to these difficult roadbloacks, I try to remember all the good times we have shared, and the great future we have together. Stop hogging the covers, and I may keep you around.
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