Finally getting my head around it all..

When I heard about the course "Managing E-Learning" I must admit I felt quite confident, considering myself to be quite capable with technology.  However, as soon as wiki's and blogs were mentioned I got lost.  In all honesty, I hadn't even heard of these things and had nooo idea what to do with them.  I suppose one of the things that I found most confronting was that everything online seems so public and I suddenly got very conscious of every word I was putting down...  With all of this said, I hope I am finally headed on the right track!!

While I was reading through the readings listed for week one, I found I was drawn to the fact that so much has changed, and how much technology is used.  How incredible is it to think that teachers are preparing students for jobs that don't even exist yet!  Technology is truly amazing, I find that it makes working from home so much easier because if I get stuck on a question I can just jump online or text a friend. Personally, I use technology as often as I can, and I often think about how heavy my school bag always seemed at the beginning of the school year and imagine how light they will soon become when all the students need are an iPad or a laptop and maybe a pencil case.  There won't be the need for all of the heavy textbooks, the dictionary or the bible... it seems that everything is available digitally these days. So with all of this running through my head I began looking on youtube, finding videos that stated how much technology has grown over time, how much of our population use mobile devices, how many texts are sent per minute, and so on.  The numbers of course were far bigger than I could ever have imagined.  It was a reminder to me of how important it is to include technology in education, because not only does it appear to be the present, but these sites show what a big part it will play in the future.

I think it is wonderful to have a course like this, to remind us of how important technology is in education and to encourage us to explore it as well!!!