Thursday, February 22, 2007

Closing to an end

Well my class ended three months ago and I still haven't wrote any concluding thoughts on how it went. After having read the evaluations I can happily say that the class was challenging, entertaining, and more importantly, interesting. Students were saying that they found the readings hard, but the class discussions were explanatory. And most felt that they actually learned something about digital media. What more can I ask for? They also said that this should have been a semester, not eight weeks. It was initially designed as a semester long, but the logistic difficulties made it impossible to offer it as a full semester class.
How do I feel about it? Well, pretty good actually. Most had their firsts in using some of the tools in my class, they were baffled at first, then were able to adjust and learn. The Wiki was useful I think and I was successful in implementing it. Also I successfully adjusted the schedule to fit the students' level, which wasn't what was promised to me. Coming in I thought I was teaching an honors class only to find out all of my students actually dropped out of their first class and decided to take the next best thing and most weren't even interested in the topic. But most struggled through it, liked it, and learned a lot from it.