In the beginning of
the semester I was a bit intimidated with this course. I am not much of a
technology person. Throughout the course my intimidation grew less and less. I
found the assignments to be quite easy to follow. All of them were
really exciting to work on. I am familiar with Facebook and Twitter so those
two were probably the easiest to work on. Although I can admit that I didn't
know how useful these two social medias could be in the classroom and library.
Until now I had only used them for social purposes. The assignment on
Easel.ly, Piktochart, and Infogra.am was probably the assignment I had a little
more trouble with. I had never used any of these infographics before this
assignment. My librarian uses Piktochart for her flyers, and I always wondered
how she created them. Now I know exactly how to create one myself. My favorite
assignment would be Animoto and QR Codes. I really enjoyed working on this assignment. In my opinion Animoto and QR Codes would probably be the most useful for students especially in the library. Having students create book trailers in Animoto is a great idea. They will benefit from this in so many ways and the QR Codes are just so much fun! Students will be so engaged with these internet tools that the assignment wouldn't be seen as an assignment. It would be more of a fun activity with learning at the same time. Podcasts would also be useful for students but not as fun as QR Codes. Another internet tool that students would enjoy working with would be Cartoons and Comics. Over all I really enjoyed taking this class. I learned so much and useful information that can be used in our classroom and in the library.
