Whenever Technology in the classroom comes up, it had varying results for me. Sometime I have had teachers utilize it in wonderful way, with interactive presentations featuring various movie clips, funny pictures, or interesting information. I have also sat through a forty-page PowerPoint slideshow which was crammed to the max with definitions and phrases the teacher simply repeated verbatim.
In a past ISTC class, we met online twice a week. There, the students and professor posted back and forth on BlackBoard, as well as fulfilling other obligations via the web. It was more or less successful, with the only crutch being the constraints of BlackBoard and its tendency to hiccup or crash. By the end of the course, we compiled all our work up to that point in an online porfolio, which was posted on the tiger.towson page.
I enjoyed using different mediums for the class, such as SharePoint and Excel for homeworks and projects. I thought it was a great way for all the different ways of accomplishing a task on the web to be shown to people who may have not used them before, and it also challenged us as students to think about how we may utilize these mediums while teaching.
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