Online Courses

So this course was my first online course and overall I feel like it went well. At first I took an online course because with the rest of my schedule was kind of hectic with labs and stuff. Taking an online course allowed for me to free up some time during the day and allowed me to do the work whenever I had free time between other classes. At first it was hard to get used to. Im used to having teachers reminds us each class of when the assignments are due. Although through Web CT it reminded us when assignments are due, unless you checked every week, you only realized something was due a couple of days prior when Web CT said an assignment is due soon. After getting used to this fact and realizing it was up to me to check on the assignments and stay on top of things, I think things went smoothly. Another thing that I needed to get used to was the fact that when you ran into problems with the assignment or the sites that we being used, it was kind of up to you to communicate with others and try and figure it out. Of course Professor Reid was on instant messanger whenever you needed to ask him things, but having someone explain how to do things online was not as easy as I expected it to be. I think this is because I was used to meeting with the professor face to face and having them show me how to work things and how to fix my problems, so having to communicate through the internet was definiatly something I had to adjust to. Besides getting used to staying on top of things myself and communicating through the internet, everything else was pretty good. I am happy that I took an online course and I am happy that for my first time, everything went pretty well.