I have to say that the clicker idea is one that hadn't crossed my mind. I see it as having a great deal of promise in a more static classroom where students, due to the material being covered, have to listen to lectures. By having impromptu polls over, say, whether the answer to a math problem is 3.5, 3.2, 4, or 3 radians, you can keep a class engaged with following the teacher and learning the material. For an English class, it could definitely be useful to help people review materials like plot points, character relations, and opinions.
This course has been informative in ways I hadn't anticipated, but also very frustrating because of the time constraint (Opening at 8 AM and closing at 8 PM and weekends) and because the email I sent to the professor after eCollege kept messing up somehow disappeared and I lost an entire week's worth of work. I am really confused as to how that occurred, but I know from experience that contacting the tech department will only yield you with one bit of information: how long and when you were on their system, nothing else. At least now I know the professor wasn't ignoring me, she just must have never gotten any of my communications.
I learned a good portion of new technological tools and a couple of techniques, so, should I have to retake this course, I feel confident I'll be more than ready.
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