Blog Number Six

I'm all about the technology, so I plan to integrate a good portion of it into my course. The only reason I say this, though, is because I see a direct application of it in my curriculum. Normally, I have been the advocate of chalk-and-blackboard technology in courses...I have had so many classroom experiences where the instructor utilized technology that seemingly had no useful purpose in the lesson. The teacher either spends 20 minutes fiddling with it, or does a PowerPoint presentation whose sole purpose seems to be so that we can watch every letter of the lecture notes zoom onto the screen, accompanied by the sound of a car engine that sounds like a mosquito on helium. UCompass's accessibility and ease of use, on the other hand, makes its use directly releveant to my course.