Brief Course Recap
I am amazed at the variety of tools available free on the internet and the way they interlace which is the basis for this course. The course has been a great survey of the tools and techniques and the teaching has been very effective through its hands-on nature. I reviewed the exercises we did for the course: Web Hosting, Cloud Computing and Drawing Project, Photo Manipulation and Photo Journalism, Animated GIFs’ and Animated videos, Presentation Tools, Video Blogging, video tools, and Audio podcasting and Slide show tools (Animato). I found that my comments on all of these were essentially the same – very interesting and relevant topics. Blogging was also a good experience and it was interesting to experience other people’s (other blog services) blogs.
The ePortfolio is an excellent technique for combining the use of a tool and the creation of a detail journal of the use of the various tools – something students can refer to when they need to use one of the tools described.