IT 648 Telecommunication in Education: What a Wonderful Class!

Since IT 648 Telecommunication in Education lasted only the first five weeks of summer school, I felt the class was intense. In addition, IT 648 was my first fully online class, so I had to manage my time wisely to complete all class requirements. There were eleven topics covered in this class:

a.      Blogging in Education

b.      Social Bookmarking with Diigo

c.       Google Docs

d.      Google Sites

e.      Web Page Design and Development

f.        WebQuest

g.      Acceptable Use of Policies and Internet Safety

h.     Videoconferencing

i.        Satellite Technology

j.        Creating Online Groups for Communication, Sharing, and Collaboration

Dr. Yuen provided us with variety of reading materials and media for each topic. Fortunately, I am familiar with several topics including Blogging, Diigo Social Bookmarking, Google Docs, Web Page Design and Development as well as Acceptable Use of Policies and Internet Safety. Therefore, I was able to spend more time on reviewing course reading materials on topics I was unfamiliar with, especially WebQuest. However, I still found most of my time on reading class materials and watching media in order to build my understanding on class concepts, complete six assignments, and participate in four class discussions. In other words, sometimes I felt overwhelming from the information I cultivate from this class. I hope that I had more time to digest these materials. Luckily, I bookmarked most of reading materials and media on my Diigo so I can come back to review them again.

I found that each class assignment strengthens my understanding from class reading materials. I admitted that I spent so much time reflecting on what to do on each assignment. I love to read my classmates comments on each other assignments. I think these comments are very useful and in fact united our class together although we never meet in person during this course. Actually, I learned a great deal from these comments. It is important for class to form a learning community. Because of class learning community, my understanding of class concept has leveled up to another dimension. In addition, class discussions deepened my comprehension of this class. Reading ideas and opinions of other classmates opened my eyes to see different angels of the same subject. 

Lastly, I would like to thank my fellow classmates for giving feedback and suggestions on my assignments and discussions. We are actually a good learning team. I truly enjoy this class. All of you have made my online learning experience positive. Thank you very much for making IT 648 a wonderful class to learn!