Current Issues - Week 2

I'm almost back on an appropriate pace in this class!  I feel like I've been a few days behind through this whole process so far!  Hopefully I am getting back on track, after a few days of hard work.

We've been dealing with our first "Issue" and assignment that goes with it -- "What is ITEC?"  I've enjoyed this assignment and discussion, as it is primarily opinion based.

In our discussions, we discussed ITEC as a practical field, academic area and the definitional issues of ITEC.  As for ITEC as a practical field and academic area, the part that I find the most interesting about ITEC's uniqueness is the fact that it involves rapidly changing and evolving technologies in a slowly changing and evolving arena--education.  It seems that educators often see these excitingly appliable technologies on the educational horizon, but are slow to implement them, for various reasons.  As for the 3rd part of the discussion, Three Definitional Issues, I found this to be the least engaging thing that we've discussed thus far.  I don't find defining things to be nearly as engaging or relevant as applying them, as a PBL class certainly exemplifies.

Also this week the Wiki Resources link was made available.  I am not sure what to do here, though I believe that this is an optional sharing opportunity.  I tried to find something include, but was unable to find something of value to my classmates that wasn't already posted!