Technological discoveries

For me the use of Elluminate enabled participation in an online community in ways that were completely new to me. Breaking up the class in to smaller units was another new thing to me. It brought home the idea of active online collaboration with peers. Ideas for using these technologies to provide much-needed information to professionals currently employed seems to be a distinct and immediate possibility.

The other huge element that was new was the fact that class activities are recorded and made available to every student. This allows post facto participation in cases where the class member was absent during the active session. So, these two "discoveries" were an big eye-opener for me. Imagine if the audios of every class (in a traditional classroom) were made available to every student to access in their own time! Wow!