Joan says

This course has been a difficult, yet great learning experience for me.   I hadn’t had enough exposure before this course to the concept that the internet can foster collaborative learning among learners who connect with each other.  Therefore, learning more about wikis, blogs, google docs, voice threads, and pod casts, has taught me that the computer isn’t just for one-way learning in which someone reads information put out there by others…but rather that one can dialogue with others in different ways about almost anything.  The next steps for me would definitely be to pick some of these tools that I have learned about, become more proficient at them through practice, and teach them to my students by using them in some of the units that I teach.  I am glad I worked through these “things”, and I enjoyed doing this over the summer when I had the time to pursue this type of learning.  This experience has made me less timid to try new things with the computer.