Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Project 6: Ingrid, Meet SKYPE:
I bought my first webcam the third or fourth week of class for EDM 310. I'm so glad I did because I have two sisters, one in Tuscaloosa and one in Massachusetts, and I've seen my younger sister Skype with her boyfriend before but it never occurred to me that the same personal experience they shared was only $34.99 away. I bought a Logitech webcam and it came with a headset/microphone. I bought a separate microphone so that I could easily record audio files for other projects- such as our group podcast. (At the time, I was unaware that we would be using Dr. Strange's super fancy mega sized microphone.) I have a three year old son, named Zachary, who misses his Aunt Marissa and Aunt Jodi very much. He sat in my lap the first time I Skyped with Marissa and it was really neat to see his reaction. She read him a series of bedtime stories and we even got to see her boyfriend's new cat, Charlie! My mom had never witnessed such an advancement in technology so she was probably more excited than my son. I'm really glad we were required to become familiar with Skype. I'm still trying to get my older sister, Jodi, to invest in a webcam.
Project 5: Create a SURVEY in Google Docs
I created a Survey titled "What Are Your Unhealthy Habits?" that consisted of 12 questions which were all in multiple choice and check box format. Click the following link to view and/or take the survey. Thank you for your participation.
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I too have felt cheated at times throughout my education at USA. The funny thing is, I didn’t really feel this way during my first two years of college which I completed at a community college. The classes were smaller and believe it or not, my instructors knew my name. It seemed a lot easier to find one on one help from my professors there and I sure enough opened my textbooks more than twice in almost all of my classes.
I don’t, however, agree that we are still using a model of schooling created hundreds of years ago. I say this simply because hundreds of years ago there wasn’t blogging or virtual interactions between students. The class that I mentioned earlier, Micro-computing Systems in Education, has taught me several new ways to use the internet and there isn’t a textbook for this class so obviously we do all of our work on the computer. Given this video was rather short, I would like to know more about why Dan made the decision to drop out of college because his “schooling was interfering with his education.” Could Dan of done something to change his experience in college?