Still a Cave Girl

I finally had some iLearn experience, and agree that it's a good place for posting general class info, like a syllabus, but otherwise, probably limiting in the same ways Blackboard is.

Anyway, I wanted to write something about this Backward Design stuff that we're into now. Having never before designed a syllabus, I'm enjoying the back-to-front approach, and hope to incorporate it into my style, when I do start teaching. Actually, if I can use it on my tutoring students this semester, I'm going to try it out. I think it is good for putting instructors in a frame of mind to really think about what is most important in what they're doing--prioritizing goals, and organizing the class with a clear focus.

As far as all this electronic media stuff goes, I'm still struggling. I just posted my "Design" plan, but first had to join our wiki page. Having never put a syllabus together, I was hesitant to post it in public. Then I had to join the wiki before I could post. As I said in my intro, I'm a private person, and the very publicness of the internet makes me extremely uncomfortable. Having to "join" sites, and give away information about myself to these electronic entities, without really knowing where it goes or how it's used--achh! Sometimes I'd just rather crawl back into my cave!