End of semester

Well finally, here is the end of the semester. On one hand it feels like this semester has flown by and on the other it couldn't have come soon enough. At the beginning it was hard to gauge how much I really thought I would learn. As far as the tools and projects, I feel like its really hit or miss. Some of them I will definitely use in my real life and others I doubt I'll remember next year. I've already made two additional google sites (for my rugby team, and a personal one) and started a travel blog for my summer backpacking trip in Hawaii. Not to mention, I use google docs for EVERYTHING. These are valuable tools that have forever changed the ease and experience of my academic and non academic life. Now it's hard to even imagine life before google docs. The one thing I expected to learn from the course and didn't was Prezi. I guess I know older education students who learned Prezi through the education dept and figured this is where. Not that its hard to pick up, but going through a "practice project" with the new tools was definitely helpful. The best part of this class has really been the level of authenticity in assessment. It's been such a relief to be "working" towards good grades vs merely "studying."