Technology

1. How is online learning different than in person learning?


One of the differences I found between an in person environment and an offline environment is how a student absorbs information. In my first online class I experienced something everyone experiences when reading. I would read the assignment or the material for us to study, and no matter how many times I read it I just could not understand what it was asking. Which, was quite annoying. Other problems would be communication, when it comes to sending a email to the professor I tent to become self conscious and hope I don't type or spell something wrong. I hate being embarrassed. However, on the upside, I can wear whatever I please, stand up and get food without thinking I'm disrupting people. Researching a answer faster is also another plus. 

2. What are the particular challenges or benefits to taking and English class (in particular) in an online environment?


I found that the benefits in taking an online english class would be the fact that you are in constant use of a computer. You can instantly look up whatever you need on the internet, you can look up the definition of words that you don't understand. There is a larger range of information out on the web. One can copy and paste what they need to remember rather than writing down notes in a class and loosing them later. There is a good point of contact with the teacher for those who are shy about going in person. 

3. Which of the technologies that we used this semester was most beneficial to you?


I found that the Blog was a good place to submit assignments before turning them in. Constantly over the semesters that Yaviapi first began online classes there were times when blackboard would go down. Which was bad news to people who want to submit what they just wrote up. But considering that the blog is on a different site, a student's work can be posted and saved until the server is back up. Not to mention I find that many student's computers tend to crash suddenly without saving their work, blogs and other sites that support documents save constantly so nothing is lost. I would suggest to other's to use this blogging system or something like Google Docs to open their work it, that way it's saved on the internet and can be reopened on any computer(if you remember your password).


Other technologies I found useful was how the teacher would make us video's now and then, video's that we can pause and continue later if something came up. 
Spell check is a given miracle of technology, so is the internet for research purposes. 

4. Which did you like the most?


I found the Internet to be the one I love the most. If you take away the distractions it gives me, the resources are unlimited. I'm also pretty good at finding things there for I found it very useful for this class when I needed to find something I couldn't in other sources. 

5. Which will you use in the future and how will you use them?


Of course I will be using the internet in the future no matter what the subject. I will also use blog programs to back up things I fear of loosing, of if I don't trust the computer I am working at. I will also advice fellow students to use blogs if they have unreliable computers.