I signed up to take a new course in program evaluation - taught by my friend Ed. Several of my colleagues are in the class, too, so I look forward to this as both a learning opportunity and as a way to nurture our learning community.
It's a face-to-face class, but the course materials all reside in Blackboard. So, it's a technology-enhanced face-to-face class. And my work is much more technology-enhanced than I anticipated. We have discussion board posts on the reading; I usually do my writing in Word so that I can proof it easier. Now I am using Google Docs so I don't have to remember which computer I was working on. The easy online access to my documents is quite nice.
I left my book at home (The ABCs of Evaluation by Boulmetis and Dutwin) but had bought the optional online version from Amazon. I logged in to my Amazon account and there was the book. Adding notes, tags, boomarks, and highlights is easy and fun. I can go back to any of these marked pages very quickly too.
Reading online gets tedious after awhile, but having the ability to annotate is great. This may be a great tool. Now, if I can share my markups and annotations with others in the class.....
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