BLOG 7

This is the final blog of the semester. This past week was the final week for the Lowman Home workshops. They had a party for all the participants, but unfortunately I wasn't able to make it. We also spent the past few weeks talking about virtual high schools. We had a class discussion online about it. I think that virtual high schools could definitely be helpful with some classes but you just miss so much of the social aspect of high school if you were to take all of your courses online. We had a couple of speakers that came to class today to talk about it. One of the things they said they do for the social aspect of school is they have an online room that allows the students to create avatars and go around and talk to different people. That's fine and everything, but there is absolutely no way an avatar can take the place of actual socialization face to face. To me a total online high school will not have the students ready for any type of social situation in the real world. We also worked with CamStudio this week. We had to pick an objective off of a wiki website some other students created and create instructional videos and upload them on to a website such as Youtube. This was my first time creating a video on the computer so it was really a learning experience for me. To be honest it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be though. CamStudio was very easy to understand and I got my video done relatively quickly.