Thursday, December 15, 2011

EDLD 5363 ET8036 Week 5 Web Conference Reflection

In the previous three classes I’ve taken, I really enjoyed the web conference experience. In the class, I have found the experience more frustrating than anything else. For some reason, I have had trouble connecting to the web conference every week. The only times I have been able to participate actively, as opposed to watching the recording at a later date, was when I logged in an hour before the scheduled time and waited patiently. I don’t know what the problem has been but what I have discovered is that a web conference is nearly as comforting when you can’t ask the questions that you want answered. As I have watched the recorded web conferences, I have found myself trying to type questions into the chat box! Talk about frustrating. I have still managed to get the answers to all of my questions from the recorded conferences but I have felt much more isolated than in the past.

Never the less, my partners and I have collected all of the answers to all of our questions and have had a really good time working together on this project. We have really benefitted from the web conference recordings as we have doubted ourselves on several occassions and have gone back to either the chat log or the videos themselves.