Kate's Take

  Bring on the CSS! Okay, that’s much more confident than I feel, though I am not impressed with my basic and boring webpage so far, so I’m excited to add some color and style, though I still can’t “see” how this will pan out in the end. I’m looking forward to exploring templates because that will surely help me to see the final project a bit more clearly.   On another note, assessment is hard. Bloom and I spent some time together today, discussing his taxonomy. Well, really I did the talking (and griping and complaining about how my great ideas were NOT higher order) and he just kept sending me the same pyramid that’s been around for years. That guy is consistent if nothing else.   I know WHAT I want people to get from my course, but having them prove it is hard – it's been a minute since I’ve worked on the alignment piece and it’s SO important, but also doesn’t always end where I think it will. Great activities mean nothing if learners don’t do more than regur...

  I finished up the previous course and now I'm on to my next BIG ADVENTURE - Computer Mediated Learning!  R-547 is WAY out of my comfort zone - I'm learning to CODE!  And at the end of the course, I'll have a basic website that I can use to teach and evaluate learners a new topic.  It's right up my alley, and terrifying all at once.        This is week 2, and we're getting deeper into the HTML.     So far in this course I've learned...       *HTML is hard for me to grasp - I don't think that way, but I'm enjoying the "stretch" so far.          *Computers are amazing inventions - the things that they can do automatically is overwhelming.          *The early code - ers (is that a word?) are remarkable.  How did someone even think to begin programming a computer?  And look at how much we use and take advantage of daily.          *IU Te...