End of classes – part II

Summarizing my whole experience with EDTS, I can certainly say that I am extremely glad that I took this class. It was very helpful and enriching. I doubtfully believe I would have gained so much computer-related knowledge on my own. So I am grateful and would like to thank Professor Ransom for bringing so much into our lives. There are classmates that already knew at least half of the content taught in class (that was not my case). I hardly knew or had ever used any of the resources we dealt with throughout the semester. I don’t teach yet, but I intend to soon. Therefore, it would be great to start teaching using some of the technology I learned about. The least I could do was to fight to implement some of them in schools (fight for the ones that are not yet in use, the ones that are blocked). The only thing I lament about this course though is that I wish I had had more time to practice what we learned. Theory was well taught and clearly explained by our professor; on the other hand, I feel we had very little time to put theory into practice. And there was a lot of content for a short period of time. There were many times I was insecure and wasn’t quite sure what I was doing, if I was doing the right thing. So I was afraid of getting bad grades in our hands-on projects because I did not have enough time to practice them in class previously. My handouts and memories from what I had heard in class, were all I could rely on. Sometimes practice can be much harder and trickier than theory. In general, I enjoyed the class and would really recommend it to anyone who hasn’t taken it yet.

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