I’m getting ready to teach my first class this Fall and who would have thought that preparing greensheets, calendars, and lectures would be such a bear. The hardest part is that I want to include so much information about information technology tools and applications. I’m also trying to incorporate formats that I’m comfortable with like using RSS to retrieve completed assignments from students blogs, and using Meebo for office hours. I didn’t even want them to have to buy a book if they didn’t want to and it was available in eBook format from the library.
I’m lucky that SLIS has a lot of tools available for teacher and students. I’d like to jump outside of the traditional BlackBoard/Elluminate environments, primarily for the sake exposing the students to something new but also to challenge myself to learn some new stuff as well.