As I reflect on what I’ve learned in this class, I am struggling to narrow my ideas down. I have learned so much! I have truly enjoyed this class because I was taught different ways to utilize the internet and this wonderful world of Web 2.0. I enjoyed learning different search engines, like Incywincy and Kartoo. I also appreciate learning how to do a Blog, although I don’t know if I will ever use it again. My husband wants me to put in this paragraph how much he appreciates me learning about Web 2.0 and Second Life. Neither one of us had ever heard of these before, so one night I kept my husband awake for hours while I talked his ears off about what I was learning in this class, specifically Web 2.0, Second Life and blogs. He is a probation officer and attended a training session about how criminals are utilizing the internet, and the instructor asked if anyone know what Web 2.0 was and if anyone had ever heard of Second Life, and he was able to say yes. He was the only one in the class that had heard of these!
Over the summer, I was taking online classes, and was forced (not really) to take a vacation to Hawaii. I had to take my husband’s laptop and it was confusing and time consuming getting all my Favorites transferred over to his laptop so that I could stay on top of my homework. I wish I had known about Delicious before that trip. Learning about Wordle and Slideshare.net is very exciting as well, and these are both very valuable websites that I can see myself using in the future, probably for classes. I have shown my husband slideshare.net and he is using it for his work.
One of the things that I really appreciate about this class is how the writing process was broken down over several weeks. By the time I sat down to write my paper, I was able to take the research I had already done for my outline, PowerPoint and the different blog posts, and work those into my paper. I’m usually very intimidated by the writing process because it seems so overwhelming, but being able to take small sections, and work those small sections into the bigger paper made it so much easier. This is a process that I will use in the future.
After this class, I feel like I’ve finally entered the 21st century internet world. I’ve noticed that I still save websites to my Favorites list, because that is what I’m used to doing. I’m not sure if I will get comfortable using Delicious outside of school. I also found a lot of websites during my research for this class, as well as during my personal web surfing, that have the RSS link, and I’ve clicked on several of these, but I haven’t actually gone back and read anything from that yet. I keep forgetting about them and I’m not used to checking them yet.
In closing, this is the first English and writing class I have really enjoyed.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
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