Impact of the class

And the rest of my reflections on my learning in this course...

What do you think future students should know about EL1515 to survive, or better yet, to flourish during the class?

They need to be prepared for the hybrid format, and I would encourage future students to avoid my mistake and try to post more regularly, starting early on. I’m glad the syllabus made it explicit that the reading should be done before class, because discussion would have been tough without that common background.

I would encourage students to play around as much as possible with setting up their blogs and Facebook accounts before class, since experimenting seems to be the best way to figure out those things. That way we could spend less class time could on the very basic steps of those processes, though I certainly would still want to make sure everyone was caught up.

How have your experiences in this class shaped your future teaching practice, if at all? How have they shaped your role as a learner in other settings, if at all?

This class has helped me think more seriously about technology in a parish context, as well as in other learning contexts. I was already a big user of online resources, e-mail, Facebook, etc. and a reader of blogs, but I now feel a little more competent about blogging myself, as well as using other resources that I wasn’t as familiar with.

I also feel more equipped to think critically about how many different forms of technology might serve the many different (intertwined) aspects of a congregation’s mission, from worship to hospitality to teaching and more.