Final Projects, Final Class Meeting

Wow! The projects were great; creative and informative. Looking beyond the presentation and design, I enjoyed seeing what everyone was passionate about; what a wide range of interests! Congratulations to everyone for their great work.

After two weeks of overcoming technical problems with platforms and production software, we were ready to present; even though our project was not as far along as we wished (as were many others, we discovered,) we had enough to convey a sense of the project. And then...it didn't work. We'd forgotten that .exe files are not compatible with the MACs in the classroom.

Looking back over the semester and all the various presentations, one comes to mind: Rowena's presentation on Twitter, using illustrations on poster board. It might appear my recall has been affected by my experience last night; I don't believe so. That one gets my vote.

Teamwork Online

Ethan and I have decided to work together on our final project, and other than an initial F2F meeting, we're doing the work online (with some cellphone conversations).

Our course is Basic Computer and Web Literacy, a subject both of our have taught. The course is designed as HyFlex, with the classroom portion highly recommended for students with weaker adaptive skills in the adoption of technology. We narrowed the topics within the course to 6, based on current research and our experiences as instructors. We also decided to build-out a single module.

Although it sounds self-defeating to stage a beginning computing and Web class in HyFlex---how are the novice students going to handle that?---it's not.