Excited about learning...

The most exciting aspect of learning in the Multimedia in Instructional Design Course for me is the way these tools open up new frontiers for us and in many ways join us all together via the internet in ways never before possible. They also put resources at our fingertips that were never available like that before. Good design is still good design, and bad design is still bad design, but when it comes to engaging students a good teacher will find exciting new ways to enrich lessons and empower students. I am also greatly encouraged with websites like teachersfirst.com that provide safe clearinghouses for good tools, websites, examples, tutorials, and the like for teachers. The immensity of the internet can overwhelm and sometimes it is hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. At the very least it is very time consuming for an individual teacher to sift through all these things. So, I guess I am excited by the tools and capabilities, but also encouraged in realizing that there are resources like teachersfirst.com that a teacher can readily turn to for ideas and help.