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**Xander J.**

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 * 1) How would you change the pacing of the course? I thought that the pacing of this course was one of the biggest positives for me. I understand working up to the big video project at the end but that's also the last week of classes for all of our other classes. That weekend and entire week tends to get a little swamped. That wasn't really a big deal, but it was a thought. Also, I may not keep the paint/photoshop right before it. I had never used either of those before, so I wanted to stop working on the paint/photoshop project to work on the movie but I knew that was something I really did need to get familiar with. Perhaps if you put the office portion right before the video it may make it easier for students who do not have much technology experience. Plus, office is easier to work on at home. Then people will be more able to give two full classes to the video project.
 * 2) How would you change the basic schedule of the course (one software idea a week, with one day for instruction and one for work)? I think the basic schedule was great. I really appreciated that you respected our time and that there was class time allotted to get the work done.
 * 3) What material should have been included, but wasn't? I think I included anything extra I would have wanted in my last journal. I didn't realize the sites you would block were different, but blocking sites would be a big one for me. Other than that I think there was enough space that you could figure out how to do most of it on our own. The only other one I came up with would be a really efficient way to make a survey and get results all in one place. I suppose I could figure out a way to do it using the stuff we learned in class, but I feel like there may be some secret I don't know about it.
 * 4) What material do you think was unnecessary? I am slow and not a huge fan of technology so I thought it was all very necessary.
 * 5) How would you have taught the material itself differently? Maybe the lesson on the first day then a go around on the second day to hear everyone else's ideas and what they're doing. This way if someone says something we can make note and go directly to their page. It takes some time to figure out who has what on their page and how it could be useful to me, so a general overview would be nice. If you don't want people "stealing" ideas you could even have people make a list on the main page after their page providing the title for each of their projects. I guess it would be an index of sorts. It would make me more likely to look and save time.