Hopes, Goals & Anxieties
What are my goals for this class? Originally, I had thought that this was the Flash animation course (another course that I'll need for my Website Design major). Of course, this delusion was shattered the moment I stepped foot into the digital classroom. But this is not a bad thing. I've never been a blogger or much into the social networking stuff, so this will provide me with exposure to these aspects and allow me to broaden my digital horizon, so to speak. I'm hoping that this experience will help me to understand how these technologies work and will help me learn how to integrate them into my future web projects, which leads to my checking-in question for Lisa this week: How deep into the web coding does this course go? My sinking suspicion is that it doesn't at all, which will be a bummer, but I'll still stick with it (heck, I need to take the course anyway, right?).
I don't really have any anxieties about this course. I'm completing the majority of my major online, so this isn't my first class here, though it is my first real experience with many of the tools for the course. I've never really had any issues with learning new things, though, as long as I have the time and wherewithall to try. Given that this is a college course, it can be assumed that I have both, so this shouldn't be too hard. I'm sure that my techophile background will help out a lot here.
To my fellow students, I wish you the best of luck and encourage you to speak up in the discussion board. As I said, this isn't my first online class, and I've found that the best ones encourage a lot of online discussion. This allows us to bounce ideas off one another and really delve into the inner workings of the course. So share your insights, ask questions and answer your classmates. Don't be shy. Chances are that if you have a question or are getting stuck somewhere, there are others stuck in the same spot. By combining our efforts, we can figure out a solution and then we've all learned something.
OKay, you automatically are my favorite student, at least this morning :-) Thank you for encouraging your fellow students to be active in the Discussion Board. This is the most difficult thing for a teacher to manage online but just one or two lively students can make or break the Discussion area's usefulness.
ReplyDeleteI've answered your coding question in the Talk To Lisa area, check it out there, but yes, you're right, not coding, or very little. Doesn't mean you can't access that on your own. All the online tools and apps have some kind of background coding going on and you have access to that so go for it!
Great to have you in class, Sean!
L.