After the start of our second grad class today, I found myself overwhelmed with user names, passwords, and options. My first thought is that if I feel this overwhelmed, how will my students feel in the classroom? I want to utilize web 2.0 tools, but it is hard to remember all the tools and remember the passwords and user names. I liked Aaron's post where he suggested the idea of implementing just a few of the tools.
Another concern that I have is will our students feel burned out of technology if we are all using it all of the time, especially if we are using the same web 2.0 tools? I love technology, but I don't want to overwhelm my students or myself.
I am hoping that I will be able to implement ideas for EDL 755 with my project-based learning until in EDL 719. I am still fearful of what the whole process looks like with project-based learning. What happens in the middle is my big question. Hopefully, reading the books will help.
On a side note, I am feeling very overwhelmed with the reading for both classes. How am I going to be able to read 9 books, build a unit, a presentations, and write reflection papers in about one month??? I know that I will finish it all, but I am afraid that I might burn out on my summer break.
I did not know that you were overwhelmed in my class today because I assumed that you already learned several web 2.0 tools from Keith during the last week. Please let me know if you feel overwhelmed again in class. :-)
ReplyDeleteOh, it's not class itself. The web 2.0 tools I was fine with, for the most part. It's just remembering user names and passwords quickly that stressed me out.
ReplyDeleteIt's more of the reading that is overwhelming at the moment. I usually get this way at the beginning of each class. It is just a lot of work that needs to get done quickly. I will successfully get through it though.