Preparing for a class can be tougher than taking it. ; )

You know how many times you have heard people say that they learned much more preparing for a class than the students.  Well, I am feeling that way right now.  I have been preparing to teach a Distance Education Tools class at USU for 6 months now.   It has been quite a ride and I have learned an awful lot.  I am sure I will learn even more from my students. Today one of my students, Stephanie Hamblin, is teaching us about blogging.  I will be asking my students to blog each day of the class and review and evaluate the day.  This is a great reflection tool and will help me in evaluating what is going on and make changes during the day.

I’m still swimming!

Well, swimming instead of drowning is a good thing I guess.  The TTIX conference has been incredible for me.  There have just been too many things that I wanted to learn about but didn’t quite dare to get into.  For one thing non-users seem to like to feed you stories about how technology will take over your life if you let it. As if technology only takes away from your quality of life! What about all the things it adds. Collaborating and learning from people who share my same interests is so exciting to me.  Now if I can just get over my online shyness phobia. I guess that will just have to be one blog, Twitter, Facebook post at a time. Wahoo, I like swimming even if I am just treading water right now!