This class has taught me a lot about how to better navigate the internet and about how to better myself academically. I am currently a senior and will be graduating in December and really wish I would have taken this class sooner! It was nice to learn all the google can do for you. Coming into the the course, I just thought it was a search engine and somewhere to house an email account. It was pretty cool setting up a GoogleDoc account as well as setting up a schedule for myself through the site. I enjoyed learning about all the various search engines available to me as well as the resources that this class was able to point out for me. It was nice to interact with other students, commenting on each other’s posts and seeing what they had to say about the same material.
This class has taught me that I am no where near as technologically savvy as I should be. There are many aspects of the internet that I have no idea about and this class just grazed the top of what all is out there. It also taught me that I need to make better use of my time. Far too often, I am distracted by the influence of the 60 people living with me in my house. Granted I love them to death, but in mapping out my weekly schedule through my Gmail account, I realized I need to devote more time to studying and less time to going out and drinking. This course taught me how to better manage my time when it comes to online work. Having modules due every Wednesday and setting aside a weekly time each week to knock out the assignments was nice.
I would say the most meaningful experience in the course would have to be learning how to better navigate my Gmail account. I have had an email set up on there for years, but learning all that it has to offer will prove very beneficial in the future. I like how we devoted an entire week’s worth of material based on the topic. I have used the GoogleDoc feature multiple times in the very little amount of time I have had knowledge of it. The Google schedule also allows me to see where I spend most of my time and helps me out when I have important dates.
I will take many things away from this course. I now know how to work through the OSU online research library, being able to retrieve articles in the database without actually having to go to the library and scan them in myself. As I have mentioned previously, I will continue to use the GoogleDoc and Gmail schedule both academically and for various other things as I see fit. This class taught me to make better use of my time. Throughout the course, I was able to grow up a little bit, working through the distractions and buckling down (every now and then) and getting stuff done, much more than I had in the past. I hope to continue to better myself at my time management skills, hopefully one day getting the procrastination down to a minimum.