Linked Courses

I have to say that I struggled with the concept at first. But I think that was due to my being in a new setting as I had just moved here. The process of slowly adding an element each week to our knowledge base was very effective in the learning of this new technology. I really felt like I was using software that professionals would use and I felt pretty good about knowing how to do it. The detailed instructions were excellent as it allowed me to relearn after a class discussion. Linking the classes was an interesting concept. It did not become clear to me until the end as to the benefits both classes had to offer each other. I felt a little distant at first between classes. I think it would have been rel event to present the hands on assignments each week relating to the class assignment from Dr. Abrahanson. It would have made the literature class more connected. All of us collected images for each of the weekly summary handouts, so maybe we could have make them into collections in Picasa and then grow throughout the semester. Instead of a written report each week on a person, we could have done a short narration with a few images to represent the idea. I know that is probably more work so maybe not every week -but something like that. You could have critiqued the images throughout the semester that we selected and talked about how to get better ones for our final projects. I am just giving suggestion here, I think we had a great semester the way we conducted it...these are just thoughts.