Electronic Contact Assignment

After many attempts to contact a teacher in another area with no success I had an electronic conversation with a friend of a friend in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Meleena Camp. She attends Hopkinsville Community College and is trying to get some of her general studies courses out of the way.

Meleena and I discussed how technology is used in her classes and she says she is taking an online history class that is completely online, but is taking an online English class that requires her to visit campus several times during the semester to take proctor tests. In the history class the assignments are usually ones that require her to read an article posted on a website and then write a report about it.

I asked her about blogs, itunes, podcasts, and websites and she said so far she has not had to use any of these technologies except blogs. The only exposure she has had with blogs in an educational setting is her online teacher has a blog where he posts a progression time line to keep students on track and helpful information about assignments and contact information.

I think it is a shame that Meleena has not had to use any more different types of technology in her courses, but maybe as she progresses in her college career this will change.