TinaMo

ETEC-524 is the first graduate course that I have taken towards my master’s degree so this is the first time that I have seen a course management system like eCollege. I must say that I am impressed. I know that the instructors have to put in countless hours to prepare a course for online instruction, but I believe the courses to be effective thanks to the instructors and the software that they manage their course with. I am so glad that I took this course before taking an online course because it has familiarized me with eCollege. Now I won’t have to learn the system as well as the course material when I take my first online course in the fall. I have found eCollege to be well-organized and very user friendly. In the assigned textbook reading for this week, instructors made themselves available online at certain times. This reminded me that Dr. Wickersham had asked us to go online and join www.Skype.com on the first day of class, so I finally did. It allows you to communicate verball...

After reading chapter 4 in the textbook entitled, Accessing Primary Sources to Enhance Critical Thinking , I began to see how enticing primary sources can be. Then after going to the NARA website at http://www.archives.gov/index.html where an hour flew by so quickly after I had become enthralled with reading and seeing actual artifacts from the Watergate trials, I began to wish that I taught a subject other than mathematics. There are so many resources for teachers and students on this site. Besides the obvious artifacts, there are lesson plans with worksheets that help the teacher plan and worksheets to help students organize their thoughts. There is not doubt in my mind that students will enjoy investigating this site. As far as my educational technology philosophy goes, this site is obviously reliable. You get to see original documents, film clips, cartoons, photos and hear sound recording first hand. I believe that social study and English departments will love using this site on ...