Technology Enhanced Learning: Leveraging the Power of Networks (EDOD692B)

The EDOD692B course of the OLPC program models and inspires technology enhanced learning.  Through this course, I not only learned how to blog which tapped into my passion for learning, sharing, and teaching.  This course increased my level of confidence to publicly share my journey - something I would have never done otherwise.  I found inspiration to create blog posts that would be interesting, inspiring, and informative.  What accompanied this blogging experience was the inspiration that came from the blog posts by my classmates who revealed such a diverse set of interests and skills that I would not have been exposed to if not for this course.

This course also prompted an opportunity to learn how to work with an authoring tool called Adobe Captivate 9.  While I appreciate the opportunity, I will say that I was disappointed by the software's functionality.  I work with Articulate Storyline 2 at my workplace and find that it is a much stronger tool than Captivate.  Storyline has a more logical interface and offers more flexibility in adjusting the content of slides imported from Microsoft PowerPoint.   That being said, the journey of learning how to technologically enhance our training material revealed other helpful resources that I have already begun to leverage to enhance my projects at work.  Such resources include YouTube's Audio Library for free music and Freepik.com for free images.

What I value most about having the opportunity to learn through technology is the increase in my overall confidence in navigating through all of the technical elements we need to stay current with for the sake of educating ourselves and others.  I value how this course has peaked my curiosity and taught me a new set of vocabulary that will has already proven to be invaluable in this tech-driven world.  The exciting and daunting thing about that is that we've only just begun scratching the surface!

Here's a brief training video that was designed to offer interactive components and audio to engage the learner.  

I want to thank our professor, Dr. Folkestad and my fellow classmates/personal learning network for enriching my learning experience this semester.  Congrats to everyone for completing Fall Semester!

Cheers!